Assignment
You will also be selecting your topic for the term paper and submitting a short written assignment about the topic.
The term paper is an opportunity for you to explore in-depth an issue pertinent to the role of an accountant in your chosen area of interest. The objective of the term paper is to help you transfer the concepts and research techniques that you learned from the class and from your chosen area of interest in your MSAC degree program. Accordingly, you will be able to choose a topic in a broad area such as:
• Financial accounting and/or reporting
• Governmental accounting and/or reporting
• Nonprofit accounting and/or reporting
• Managerial accounting
• Auditing - public
• Auditing - internal
• Taxation
• Fraud
• Other topic from a course that you took in your MSAC program at DeVry/Keller
Although the topic areas are fairly open-ended, it is expected that each paper will have theoretical underpinnings, as well as practical implications. Suppose, for example, your interest is in auditing for fraud. An ideal paper would include not only a discussion of why frauds occur but also recommendations for a business or other entity to guard against frauds. Hence, a discussion of the internal control procedures and the role of internal and external auditors might be apt. In effect, both the "why" and "how" of establishing the appropriate procedures would need to be addressed.
I would like to choose Taxation.
Select your topic problem statement. Prepare a one-page summary (double-spaced) describing your topic proposal problem statement.