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Bad grades in accounting will affect your GPA negatively and in job interviews. But more important, accounting is the foundation of all business classes, it is the language of business, so if you are not learning it, you will have problems in other classes.

You can't learn accounting by reading about it, you have to do it, and that takes time. You have to plan on about 3 hours out of class for every hour in class, and more if you are having problems grasping the concepts.