I love tax 500% & have pre-experience.I was 1000% enthusiastic B4 the semester.But u won't miss anything if u skip classes.I'm very disappointed.I agree we all have to study on our own;however,if prof prepares & organizes the lecture a bit different in an presentable & understandable manner, this course is full of fun & practical.Be fair & square.

He drags on with his questions and forces you to answer the question. He also continuously says to drop the course if you can't handle it. He's a university prof and not a counselor. Start teaching to subject and stop being so degrading to the students. We are all adults and know what we can handle and what we can't. Most of us have to take this to

Fairly speaking, understanding the CONCEPT is important than just doing calculations like a robot. However, the prof do not understand the process of doing the calculations is also a very efficient way to explain the CONCEPT. Being too extreme in either just talking concepts or doing calculations are both wrong approaches.True, he's tried to help.

So here's the thing, to keep it simple: This Prof is a TERROR! He gave us fill in the blanks for the mt and it ade up 50% of the mt It was so hard that if you get one wrong, you end up getting the whole question wrong and you loose marks! He keeps stating it is imp. to understand TAX, but if you have fill in the blanks then u have to memorize tax!

Not Recommend!!! Get help elsewhere.

This is the first negative review I've ever given but this guy deserves it. He's totally useless and manipulative. There are so many great profs out there, don't waste your time and money on him.

Just one thing I don't get about York, is why don't they fire guys like him. My 2nd worst prof. ever. He is a miserable guy, who lacks communication skills. He tries to show he is in control, but most of the students just laugh at him.

Quite possibly, the worst prof, I ever had at York. Most of the students make fun of him in the class. He tries to exert control in class, making new policies like later comers have to sit at the back, but no one actually listens to him. Try not to laugh at him to much, he will make you pay for it in the exams.

Why York has this guy on payroll is beyond me. For starters, he doesnt teach anything: all the info is in the text book. Just read the book and you will be fine. On some of his exam questions he will penalize you for a wrong answer (deduct marks). He is not an accommodating proff - too strict. Teaching is just not his calling.

This guys is terrible! Trys to make jokes but fails badly.. His class reminds me of a newer edition of Dr. Hos infomercials ever week.. just very bad!

Teaching not his calling ! I have taken more than 120 credits at York , and hands down the most futile professor award goes to him. Never touches a chalk in the entire course, never does a problem in class, reads from the slides, any gibbon can do that. Please try and avoid taking him save your money,

Annoying, poor english, pain in my ass, talked during exams, sent useless emails, on an on

One of the worst Profs. I have ever come across. Spends the entire class reading the textbook from the overhead, has no structure to his lectures, tells some of the lamest jokes, annoys you with the most useless e-mails and most importantly - this guy cannot teach if his life depended on it. Stay away from him and save your money.

horrible

My first time meeting a communist. Poor teaching strategy with no course content. He is not helpfull and not approachable. He is a prime example of York's failure in academic rankings among school in Canada. I highly suggest you dont take his course if your looking to learn and advance in schoolling.

He is really bad. Before an exam he will literally talk for 20 minutes about how the course will help you in the future etc. Which should be said in the introduction lecture not right before you write an exam. Also, he is arrogant and does not want to help at all. He expects you to know everything and doesn't care his students. Go with prof Agarwal

Extremely rude and arrogant, cuts you off and doesnt let you speak. Tells useless jokes that no one laughs at, and seems to think if your opinions dont match his that you are a complete idiot. No doubt a very intelligent and learned individual, but just so wrong to be a professor! One class of his was enough to make me want to drop.

High quality prof doesn't mean high education. He discourages students, and looks at everything in a negative way. Same grade with famous Diane Jurkowski. -100 out of 100 (not even 0) F grade prof. Nothing to learn from him. Sending tons of garbage mails. Absolutely useless, horrible

Avoid him. Extremely unreasonable person. Impossible to respect him. Mark unfairly. Talk about the importance of education for literally 1 hour. He will interrogate you whenever he doesn't like your answer/attitude.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASSES!

They should have a rating on here for worse teacher in the world. Very poor social skills and very rude.

As soon as I found out I had this teacher, I dropped the course immediately.very Ignorant teacher.

Very narrow minded and not approachable by any means. Stay away if you can.

Very crazy teacher, will go balistic if someone is late, will not teach and instead will talk about random stuff

if you do not agree with this political opinion you will not do well on your paper. agree with him.

Worst Proff I've ever had... and I've had a few bad ones! This guys SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TEACH - what's the point of doing professor evaluations anyway if the school doesn't listen to the students...

When you enter exam location, if he doesn't recognize your face, he will ask whether you've been going to his class. If you say no, he will ask you why you are skipping his lectures. If you don't provide a reasonable excuse, he will force you to sit next to him during examinations.

Do not ask him questions, you will never be answered directly. Don't expect he will be give a reasonable mark unless you are a professional on taxation policies.

The course itself is NOT hard. You can self yourself a lot if you try to do your own income tax return. Hwong is a disaster! He can’t give you a clear explanation on what you did right and what you did wrong. The only reason for that is to prove to you that he’s smart and you’re stupid.

Extremely unfair marker

For his research project, the administrative aspects are more important than the actual research content. He will cut 5 marks if you do not write the email subject in a way he prescribed. I pay 8 grand a year to learn from people like him. I have no idea how he made it to the sunshine list!

This is a graduate class & his teaching is not graduate level. The course lacks structure, its ambiguous and assignment expectations are not provided. You are ridiculed in class in front of your classmates with offensive and not constructive criticisms. This professor should not be allowed to teach at the Masters level and in fact not at any level.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS PROF. Does not help you in any way of form. If anything, he tries to fail you rather than help you succeed in his course

Hwong is quite possibly the worst professor I've ever encountered within my four years at York. He focuses on the nitty gritty administrative aspects of an assignment and not the actual material/content. I mean, seriously? Mark deductions for an incorrect email subject line? Simply absurd. Stay FAR away if possible.

He is a horrible, mean and bad professor. His is unwilling to help students.

Horrible prof who is unwilling to help his student. Whatever you do don't take class with this idiot. You can get a good grade by using the textbook. Notes and his class are useless.

A disgrace to the teaching profession. Has a mindset that he is a genius, and that every student is a failure. Will not help you in any way, and will grade term papers with no transparency. Rather than trying to teach you the lesson behind the term project, he tries to "scare" you into following orders. Tax can be hard, but this guy makes it worse!

This prof is very condescending towards his students. When i read the course outline or assignment instructions, it feels like im reading a motivational speech rather than directions on how to do the assignment. He feels the need to share his "negative wisdom" in every sentence he writes. Just study from the textbook and you'll be fine.

The worst professor in human history. This is the only professor that I want to give him a 0/5. Student cannot avoid this guy since he marks all the paper from all sections. he is not the kind of professor that motivates you or encourage you to improve. All he does is trying to discourage you. The marking is unfair, But Don't get discouraged by him

Terrible and condescending prof. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS, you will regret it.

Incredibly rude and demeaning in his course announcements and interactions. He is unhelpful regarding questions and seems to believe sick students are out to lie and cheat and fake their way through exams. It says a lot about York that they keep him employed...

Awful professor. Avoid communication with him as he'll just confuse you. The comments here indicate most students didn't enjoy their experience with him, yet YorkU does nothing and lets him teach as if everything's fine. Deluded to think students will listen to his wisdom when he's so negative.

I dont want to judge him. i didn't receive any respect from this prof. overall it is a tough course, you need to learn most of materials by yourself to pass this course.

An awful professor and an awful person. If you're sick, he won't believe you and will lecture you on being honest and all his irrelevant philosophies. Negative personality, confuses students and it's a shame students are discouraged from pursuing a career in accounting because of poisonous profs like him who live in their own bubble. STAY AWAY.

Worst humankind in the history. Never clear on what his expectations on the project. Project marks never received. No one knows (including the actual instructors) what's expected and how the paper is marked. He thinks he knows everything. I am so surprised to see he still exists at York. I would never ever recommend.

I walked into first class and within 30 mins I opened my laptop and dropped the class. saved my self from a big headache... at least for now

Due to death situation in the family I had to miss first class, I got a clear message from this instructor clearly stating my failure in the course. He needs to practice what he expects from his students and what he lectures and preaches about respect and empathy. I reported him to the program director, hope that will save others his toxicity.

the worst professor in history and at york.!!! not respect students hard work and always talk not useful thing at class.

Have fun having to rewrite your original submission for the second part of your assignment while STILL keeping your argument and reasoning under a 100 word limit. This prof literally made my blood boil with his unbelievable remarks and his word choice to explain things. He clearly feels entitled and has a superiority complex.

One of the worst (if not the worst) profs Ive ever had. Overly convoluted instructions with no questions allowed yet he somehow expects a doctoral dissertation in 100 words. Lecture notes and practice question are also unnecessarily convoluted and a huge pain to work through. The biggest obstacle to succeeding in this course is the course itself.

The lectures, midterms, and final are fine for the most part. The assignment will kill your mark. Doesn't even give a passing grade if you follow every single one of his instructions fully and go above and beyond. I truly have no idea what this guy expects from 100 words. It's clear he couldn't care less about his job or students.

Awful, 1 million times awful. The worst professor you could look for. Very inconsiderate as well.

Just an jerk on purpose. No reason to be that rude and mean. Class is fine, it's accounting so its not hard, it's either right or wrong. But prof is just purposefully rude and lazy.

Very hard marker who does not care about students

Just terrible

If I could give him a zero I would! AWFUL professor. He does not give rubrics for his assignments but gives page long instructions that are completely non-sensical. What kind of professor expects one to write a research paper in under 100 words? Very bad look on the school, York U should remove him indefinitely. Worst experience.

He is just rude when it comes to participating in class. All other profs choose to be respectful of student contributions but he puts you on the spot and straight-up tells you that you're wrong. Picks on students and keeps calling your name until you talk. Not a typical seminar and no scholarly readings to actually learn the material.

Weeks before class even began, he sent a rude email basically telling you to drop the course, if you miss even ONE class you will get a C or below, and that you will be required to do readings every single day of the week... All this for only 3 credits. I feel bad for any student who has this prof.

He's not a good professor, weeks before class starts he discourages people for taking the course by the emails he sends, "people get a C after missing one class" and tells students to reconsider. He does not help when you email him either, he's super repetitive and even told me to drop this course and get a refund after the first class..

He spends way too much time trying to get to that point, if you email any questions after class, he prefers calling students on their phones. He is extremely unprofessional. He told me that I should "drop the course and that I shouldn't worry about getting a good grade but I should be worried about passing" Unprofessional & unsuitable for the job.