Submit a 1 paragraph description, in memo form, of your major research project's topic.

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You cannot use the following as a topic for your major research project and your one-page memos:

What are the major differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS,

Any forensic or fraud related topics,

Any ethics related topic, or

Any general discussion of taxation, auditing or financial reporting.

The topic of your one-page memos may be the same topic as your major research project, it just cant be any of the above listed topics.

Prepare a one paragraph memorandum discussing your research project with a specific topic from one of the following general topics. Use of a general topic such as Individual Taxation or any of the general topics listed below is not acceptable for your memos or Major Research Project. You are to select a more specific topic in one of the general areas outlined below:

Individual Taxation

Gift & Estate Taxation

Corporate Taxation

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Auditing

The topic is one found in the area of the general topic, but is not to be the general topic itself.

This is the research process in this class:

Pick your topic, and then describe your topic in one paragraph.

Write two different one-page memos on the topic.

The major research project is to be written as a White Paper regarding the topic you have selected.

You should use the research and material from the one-page memos in the White Paper.