Watch the Ledger

[407 words] One of the hardest classes that I had when I started college was accounting. My teacher was a stickler, there was plenty of homework, and class was a fast-paced frenzy of new ideas. It should have been an easy subject, but I didn’t quite get the knack of it at first. It was the whole concept of debits and credits that I could not straighten out in my mind. Once I had it, I would stumble on another problem that would send my back into an accounting tailspin. I excelled in math, but that did not matter if I was not keeping my numbers in the right columns. This had a serious effect on my final ledger, and often affected my grade. Over the years, I have improved my accounting skills, but it reminds me that we have to keep a close eye on our ledger book of…