With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting, coupled with professional experiences in public and corporate accounting, I am well-prepared to teach a wide range of accounting courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. While I am open to teaching any course in the accounting curriculum, my preferences lean toward financial accounting, managerial accounting, and data analytics.
University of California, Berkeley
UGBA120AA Intermediate Accounting I (Haas Undergraduate) – Fall 2020 & 2021
- Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Vic Stanton
UGBA120AB Intermediate Accounting II (Haas Undergraduate) – Summer 2020 & 2021, Spring 2021 & 2022
- Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Vic Stanton
MBA202 Financial Accounting (Haas Full-time MBA) – Fall 2021
- Teaching Assistant for Professor Xiao-Jun Zhang
PBDBA239FD Empirical Corporate Finance Seminar (Haas PhD) – Spring 2023 & 2024
- Teaching Assistant for Professor Ulrike Malmendier
University of Georgia
Managerial Accounting (Terry Undergraduate) – Fall 2011
- Teaching Assistant for Professor Amanda Farmer
Intermediate Accounting II (Terry Undergraduate) – Spring 2011
- Teaching Assistant for Professor John Campbell
Selected Students Feedback
“She was my favorite GSI out of this semester not only is she very knowledgeable about the course’s material but she explains very throughly the lecture’s content as well as giving out many exercises and material review content which enhanced my learning experience by a lot.”
“Patience, intelligence, logic. The only suggestion I would offer is that I hope Summer can continue teaching because she is extremely good and passionate about it.”
“She’s super nice and is able to explain very clearly and effectively if I have any questions where I don’t understand anything.”
“I really like how Summer would summarize key points from lecture and consolidate this information in the powerpoint slides for discussion. Also going over practice problems was very helpful for exam and HW preparation. I would recommend this student instructor to others.”
“She did a great job of focusing information for us. We had a lot of material to cover in a short time, and she helped a lot with consolidating that information to make it more digestible.”
“Summer is really good at summarizing tough ideas and make things simpler. She also delivers them in a very neat and concise manner that I find really useful to understand accounting…”
“Summer Zhao is an extremely organized GSI that teaches well.”
“I think Summer is well versed in accounting and our discussion further extrapolated on what Professor Stanton talked about in class. I appreciated Summer and her teaching us about financial accounting.”
“Summer was always prepared. She had her own slides that summarized the important parts in the chapter and had picked good exercises for us to work on. They were very helpful when preparing for the exam. I personally like to get as much practice as possible so I would suggest going more quickly through the review and doing more exercises. I would highly recommend Summer to others. ”
“She is super nice and makes herself available in teaching the material in an extremely effective manner.”
“I thought summer did a great job breaking down the content and going through practice problems.”
Summer Zhao 