Highly recommend her, she's very well respected and an amazing teacher! She makes a noticeable effort to prepare beforehand with materials and handouts that allows everyone to easily follow the content she is instructing. She engages the class in conversation and brings relevant, real-world examples to back up all of her talking points.

She is an amazing teacher. She goes out of her way to make free response questions instead of all MCQ for ACT 210 so you can get partial credits. Her ppts are very clear and she's really good at explaining concepts. If you miss class, it's gonna be hard to catch up, although participation not required at all.

Spectacular - definitely not easy but she makes an otherwise dry accounting class an engaging discussion about the applications of accounting. HW is long and boring but I suppose you do nail down the concepts by doing it.

I've taken her ACT 211 and am taking ACT 312A right now. She is amazing and very smart, her lecture notes and powerpoints are very clear. However, the group case studies are very long and intense, but if you put effort, you will receive a good grade!

good lecturer. class is a mix of some lecture slides and working on practice problems. encourages participation in class. the 4 case studies can be annoyingly specific and are graded pretty tough, but are great prep for quizzes and tests. 1 quiz is dropped and there is floating exam credit for whichever exam you do better on

Great professor, clearly explains concepts, is very helpful for questions in class, after class, and in office hours. I had her for Managerial as well and she was a solid professor as well. In both courses she tried to incorporate Excel (which is great) but it made the class more complicated and distracted us from the accounting.

Very nice and responsible prof. ACT is hard, so be prepared to study hard, and don't blame the prof if you don't end up well. Lectures are clear and NECESSARY and covers well. Case study (midterm/final) grades are pretty fair, but not too high. You'll want to study solidly and make them up in the other quizzes. Everything is open book & challenging

Great professor. She is tough and makes you work for your grade, but she is awesome. Super accessible outside of class and course is very well organized.

Professor Kays has been my favorite professor at Goizueta. She is super understanding and her lectures are always clear. She uses examples well and makes sure to support all of her students. I would highly recommend taking accounting with her because she makes the class so enjoyable.

Professor Kays has honestly been one of my favorite professors at Goizueta. She is so intelligent and explains things so clearly. I was so scared to take Financial Accounting but she made it so understandable and was always willing to answer questions over email and office hours. Also, she is one of the kindest people ever!

She is such a caring and kind professor who has so much faith in her students. I really appreciate her as a professor, and I took her twice (210, 211), but I can't not mention how difficult she is. She has almost too much faith in us- we aren't that smart! but she truly wants us to learn, and I love her as a professor!

I have really enjoyed Professor Kays' class. The case studies and quizzes are all super reasonable and not too difficult if you are willing to put in the effort and go to office hours if you need to. She also cares about students and lets them join class 10 minutes early or go to her office hours if they just want to chat about anything.

Best accounting prof at Emory! I took her financial and managerial accounting class and definitely have a lot of take aways. She is trying to prepare us in a career front by incorporating Excel and group work in her class. Try to find great group members, go to office hours and you will end up with a good grade

Best professor ever. Definitely tough and makes you work hard, but she is so kind and cares for her students so much.

I had Professor Kays for ACT 210 and 211, and I honestly love her. She is so kind and really makes an effort to connect with us even given the online environment. Her 211 course is super organized and structured, so I always knew what to expect. The case studies are challenging, but I really learned from them and they are 100% doable.

She is very understanding, kind, and super accesible outside of class. Her course is very structured, and there is a rubric for everything. Yes, the cases are hard and time consuming. However, they are manageable. Biggest piece of advice: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD GROUP. While hard, I learned in this course so I would take it again.

Kays is the best professor ive taken at emory! She makes this class unnecessarily tough but her lectures are amazing. I took 210 as well with her but 211 is tougher. graded on 4 case studies- 3 group, 1 individual. beware, it is super tough but office hours help a lot. she is super organised and has handouts prepared for each class. loved her class

Dr. Kays is a very clear and engaging lecturer! She's very knowledgeable and connects the material (which could feel boring at times) to broader trends. She's a super nice person and genuinely cares about students. Provides notes and everything is super organized. Only frustration is case studies (group projects) can be hard.

Professor Kays is amazing. Although the concepts in this class are difficult, her lectures are very helpful and she is very good at tying concepts into real-life examples. Her case studies are long and complicated so be prepared. However, she is super friendly and accessible outside of class, so definitely come to her OH if you ever need help!

Ms Kays is a really nice and friendly professor. She makes all the content pretty clear and if you need help with something she's good at answering questions and is accessible outside of class. The grading is a bit hard on the case studies so you really have to put 100% into those but the class is good.

She is great! Will definitively take her again.

It is clear Professor Kays is an expert in this material. However, I will say the class is a bit fast-paced, especially if you don't have any prior knowledge in accounting. The case studies are a big chunk of the grade, (make sure you pick trustworthy partners) and she's pretty tough with the grading.

Professor Kays is an AMAZING lecturer, yet the content can get difficult. Really pay attention to EVERY lecture, because the smallest details could come up in the case study. DEFINITELY attend office hours. My biggest regret was not focusing entirely during lectures because the content was dry, which is why I struggled during the case studies.

Professor Kays knows exactly what she is talking about. She really cares about what she is teaching and wants to challenge you as a student. Not an easy class by any means so look forward to studying a lot.

Her lecture made my first semester amazing. She explain things precisely and clearly with good flow and she is very knowledgeable and is ready to answer all ur questions. Although case study are very stressful, put time to it allow yourself more time to think deeper. Go to office hours also helps. Tip: find reliable case study partner.

She is a great Professor, but her grading is very tough, and the contents are challenging not gonna lie. It may be because of the course material she is teaching, but I had a pretty hard time doing group projects. By the way, she doesn't have exams and replaces them with case studies.

Professor Kays is an amazing teacher who truly cares for her students. You learn a lot through the lectures, homework, and especially the case studies. I prefer Kays and the case studies over the other accounting professor that does tests instead, as I think the material gets retained better.

One of the best professors I had at Emory so far. Great lectures and really helpful during office hours. But case studies were really difficult and time consuming.

Prof Kays is one of the nicest professor I've ever met. It's not an easy class, but her lectures DO cover everything in the cases. Do the readings, go to class, take notes carefully, and utilize office hours (she has a ton), and you'll do fine PLUS actually know accounting. Overall not an easy A but worth taking if you want to learn.

Professor Kays, although a teaching a challenging course, is really caring. Case studies can be time-consuming, but not terribly difficult. Getting an A is possible, as long as you go to office hours and review the material. Going to lectures is helpful, but not necessarily imperative in doing well in the case studies.

The case studies are VERY DOABLE if you go to office hours routinely and learn from previous mistakes. Most complaints arise from the challenging nature of ACT 200 but Professor Kays made it much more straightforward. The grading criteria are clear; if the final case is done well, the grade could replace the lowest midterm.

Kays is a great person, super smart, and really helpful. Case studies are crazy hard though. Even with office hours, these case studies consume almost all of your time for the week that you work on it. Her grading criteria is extremely tedious and she will take off points for the smallest of errors. Not worth the grind

Prof. Kays is great, amazing lecturer even though the material gets incredibly dry at times. The case studies are very time consuming, but not as hard as people make them sound. Stay on top of the content, take good notes (classes are fast, so I would rewatch lectures), start working on the case asap, and GO TO OFFICE HOURS, and you will do well.

Very clear grading criteria. The class was a bit difficult but meeting with the professor and TA's outside of class time helped a lot. Case studies were also a bit hard if you don't know your group members as well. Overall enjoyable class and Professor Kays helped a lot.

Best professor to teach a difficult subject. She's very accessible outside of class, and gives you so many opportunities to succeed (only curves up, you can drop a case study). Homework is very manageable (there's not much and you can drop one), and if you try to find the cases interesting they aren't too difficult. Definitely take her!

Kays is great! She's very kind, hosts lots of OH, and makes dry material interesting. The course is well organized and every assignment will actually help you understand the material better. Cases are much easier if you attend OH. Reviewing slides/worksheets is key for the exams. Course changed this year so cases are shorter and she now has exams

This class is not as hard as people lead you to assume, and as long as you pay attention to lectures and do the homework, the case studies are reasonable and there is no need for the reading. The information learned is invaluable to the professional world and Professor Kays is overall a great person and teacher.

Kays as a professor is very good. She's able to breakdown complex accounting concepts and make them understandable and applicable. The issue is with her grading standards. I personally found that despite doing very well on exams, I was never able to do well on the case studies, despite going to office hours. Great teacher, tough grader.

While Kays knows her stuff, expect a learning curve to this class if you're going into it with no prior knowledge. By the end, I felt like I understood the concepts and I did well on the exams but I found it difficult to get a good grade on the case studies which brought my average down. Grading on those was very strict and specific.

While Kays is a wonderful teacher the material gets to be very hard and while this may not be her fault it does not help with the tough grading of case studies and the final. Once behind the curve it is hard to recover.

kays is a great person and teacher. the class is a tone of work though. case studies requires you go to go multiple office hours. marking grid doesn't exist and yet marks very tough. there's a tone of content to learn. be prepared to do a tone of study. it isn't an easy A.

Professor is nice and enthusiastic, explains concepts very well, class is very helpful for business, class recordings are posted. Case studies (3x) are in groups but take lots of time and grading criteria is often unclear, tests (2x) are NOT EASY, do-able with SIGNIFICANT review. Besides that, grading criteria is generous, final can replace midterm

Kays is one of the most knowledgeable professors I've come across in any field. The class is a lot of work, isn't super intuitive, but I really think that's the nature of the subject. Kays is helpful, insightful, and does what she can to make the class more accessible. If you want to do Accounting as your area depth, take Kays.

Excellent professor but it is a rather challenging class so effort is required.

Kays is a good teacher. I feel like people just love to complain. She does know what she's talking about and while it's a tough class it's do-able

tough class, requires a lot of coding, but you learn a lot. Great prof.

Professor Kays was the best professor I had. Material is hard but there's grading leeway. She's extremely qualified, organized, and articulate. She learned everyone's name, contacted me first w/ acom, and framed wrong answers in class as one step closer to the right one. She's not the most charismatic, but despite reviews, she's the most respected.

Kays is very clear on what she wants and her assignments are doable as long as you put the work in. She's available and goes over concepts clearly in class. Hands down my favorite teacher at Emory. Really puts in the work and expects the same from you. Class is very useful for real world application as well.

Shes the goat. Such a fun person, great lectures, very accessible, not much hw. Cases are harsh tho just go to office hours.

One of a kind professor. Cares about you actually learning, not being able to replicate in-class examples on a test. Genuine and accessible, I learned more from talks during office hours than I have in some classes. Tests and assignments are tough but doable, and you're a better student after it's all said and done. Highly, highly recommend.

Professor Kays was a wonderful professor. While the class is difficult, she definitely cares about students understanding the material. She was very accessible outside of class and a big help during office hours, especially for group case studies. The midterms and final exams aren't easy per se, but practice the lecture notes and you'll be fine.

Anyone who gives Kays a harsh score wanted an easy A, but she cares too much about us to do that. She brings the real world to class and is one of the most honest and smartest people I've met here. Her door is always open and she's always willing to talk (about anything). Simply the best among the accounting faculty, and I've taken them all!

Professor Kays is one of the best professors ever! She truly cares, teaches at a great pace, and always answers questions. Her exams are super fair, just study the material and go to office hours, and the case studies are great prep, with real-world practice. Take her class if you genuinely want to learn accounting; you won't regret it!

One of the best teachers I have had. That being said, it is hard to do well. Her grading criteria can be unclear and hard to follow, especially with case studies. Exams are hard because there is SO much content. This being said, she is an amazing lecturer and makes her classes enjoyable, and teaches the content very well.

If you pay attention during lectures, you will never have to do any review outside of class. ~20-30 minutes of homework per week, ~2-3 hours if it's a case week (only 2 cases). Note sheets allowed on both midterm and final, textbook not really used. Very light workload, but incredibly important content. I'd recommend Kays over all other professors.

Just take her class! It might be difficult, but she's an incredible teacher and very organised. You'll learn a lot of real-world stuff and not regret it.

Very kind and clear professor, super helpful. Material is definitely challenging, and paying attention in lectures is key. The projects are very involved so don't rely heavily on AI, especially in the early weeks, to build a foundation with python. Overall, straightforward in the first half, got significantly more stressful in second half.

Tough and unclear grading on case studies. Exams are difficult. She is a great lecturer and is entertaining to a degree. You'll learn a lot

Professor Kays was incredibly clear and succinct in her explanations and lectures.

Best Class I've taken at Emory. Great Lectures! Professor Kays is always available for her students. Office hours were very helpful! It's definitely a challenging course that requires time and dedication. Redo the worksheets to prepare for the exams!!!