Take My Liberty ACCT 340 Class

ACCT 340, in the catalog's account, sets the accounting profession's ethical standards against a Christian worldview, works through the AICPA Code closely and teaches a decision model for accountants facing dilemmas.

Mintz and Morris are read one chapter a week. The early chapters cover ethical reasoning, the accountant's obligations to the public and the major ethical theories, from virtue ethics to deontology and utilitarianism.

The middle chapters turn to organizational ethics and culture, the AICPA Code's principles of integrity, objectivity, independence and due care, and fraud in financial statements.

The later chapters cover the auditor's legal liability, earnings management and the ethical side of financial reporting choices.

Discussions worth 100 points each open in weeks one, three, five, six and seven.

The reflection paper, worth 100, falls in week two, and the individual research paper, worth 200, in week four.

The group research paper and its PowerPoint, worth 200 together, close the course in week eight; Connect registration and a LearnSmart orientation in week one carry no points.

ACCT 340 is carried week by week, since something long is due in nearly every one of the eight weeks.

The discussion threads each take a real case for the chapter, a scandal, a fraud or an earnings dispute, and analyze it rather than retell it, and the replies push a groupmate's argument further.

Week two's reflection is about your own convictions, so it starts from notes you provide and you can revise it freely.

The individual paper in week four tests two theories on the same accounting dilemma and relates both to the AICPA Code, which is the comparison the rubric rewards.

For the team paper, only your assigned section is written, applying the course's decision-making model to the group's dilemma, and the slides can follow the same case.

The ungraded Connect registration and LearnSmart orientation are yours to complete, and the team decides what its paper argues.

Forum threads cite the AICPA Code directly.

Group work in the final week is built in a shared wiki, so your section is written to fit the team's model and voice.

An ACCT 340 writer combines accounting practice with ethics training, often a CPA who has worked in audit or compliance and has taught or studied professional ethics, sometimes with a background in theology.

That combination is what this course asks for: the AICPA Code applied precisely, the major theories explained fairly, and a Christian worldview brought in thoughtfully rather than as decoration.

The textbook's cases, Enron, WorldCom and later restatements, and the reforms they prompted, are familiar ground for them.

A second reviewer checks every paper and thread before delivery.

Only the coordinator knows your name.

If a theory is unclear, such as how rule utilitarianism differs from act utilitarianism, a short explanation can be sent.

The reflection paper can draw on a few notes you send about your own convictions, so it reads as your reflection.

Some have served on ethics committees or reviewed whistleblower reports, which brings practical cases into the discussions.

Forum length is the first difficulty. Five threads of at least 750 words, plus replies, add up to more writing than many full papers.

The reflection paper is the second, because it asks where you stand, and students used to neutral summaries find that hard to write honestly.

Theory is the third. Deontology and utilitarianism are easy to define and harder to apply to an accounting dilemma in a way that shows how each reaches its answer.

The Code is the fourth, since the individual paper must use the AICPA Code as a source and show how its principles relate to the theories.

The group paper is the fifth, 12 to 15 pages with nine peer-reviewed references, written in a shared wiki with classmates and paired with a PowerPoint.

Weeks five, six and seven bring forums back to back.

The final week belongs to the team paper and its slides.

Peer-reviewed sources are another hurdle: the theory paper and the team paper need more of them than most undergraduate business papers.

The first discussion is due in week one, so an early handover helps.

Forum threads arrive before their weeks, and replies once your groupmates post.

Your reflection arrives as week two opens, and the theory paper well before week four closes.

Your team section and slides come ahead of the team's internal date.

The list shows five forums, two individual papers and your group share; the ungraded items never appear.

Join in week three and the plan starts with the second discussion and the theory paper.

The theory paper and the team section cost the most.

Students who want to keep part of the course usually keep the reflection, since it is about their own convictions.