ACCT 311 Corporate Accounting Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · BS in Accounting · Business and accounting · Updated

ACCT 311 studies how costs are collected, assigned and used: cost behavior and classification, job-order and process costing, cost-volume-profit analysis, variable costing, activity-based costing, budgeting, flexible budgets, differential analysis and capital budgeting. The samples below cover each written week: why costs are sticky, how cost structure shapes risk in a CVP analysis, budgetary slack in a participative budget and a finished research paper on time-driven activity-based costing.

CourseACCT 311 Corporate Accounting (ACCT311)
Credit hours3
ProgramBS in Accounting
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work4 of 8
Samples on this site4 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published ACCT 311 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What ACCT 311 covers

Garrison, Noreen and Brewer's Managerial Accounting is the text, read from the prologue on the role of management accountants through costing systems and budgets to differential analysis and capital budgeting in Module/Week 7 and the cash flow statement in Module/Week 8.

Forum threads run at least 500 words with two citations besides the textbook, one of which may be the Bible, and replies run at least 250 words with outside research encouraged. The research paper topic is submitted in Module/Week 3 and the 125-point paper is due in Module/Week 7.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes ACCT 311 Corporate Accounting this way:
This course is a study of the principles and procedures used in the collection, recording, and reporting of costs utilizing applied learning exercises and data analysis tools. Balance sheet inventory valuation and the related Income Statement cost of goods sold valuation, determined using both job order costing and process costing, are emphasized as well as activity based costing. Revenue and expense budgeting techniques, including capital asset evaluations, are covered in-depth.

ACCT 311 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Group Discussion Board Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist and Class Introductions also due)50Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Connect Plus Homework 1 and Connect Plus Exam 1 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 3Group Discussion Board Forum 2 (Individual Research Paper Topic Submission also due)50Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Connect Plus Homework 2 and Connect Plus Exam 2 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 5Group Discussion Board Forum 350Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Connect Plus Homework 3 and Connect Plus Exam 3 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 7Individual Research Paper (Group Discussion Board Forum 4 also due)125Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Connect Plus Homework 4 and Connect Plus Exam 4 onlyNo written paper this week

Where ACCT 311 papers lose points

ACCT 311 work loses points when forum threads describe a costing method without applying it to numbers, when the second outside citation is missing and when the research paper strays from cost accounting theory into general management or financial reporting.

Using a ACCT 311 sample well

Each sample applies one costing idea to a realistic organization and supports it with peer-reviewed research. The research paper shows how a costing method can be evaluated against the evidence on its accuracy and use, which is the kind of theory question the syllabus asks for.

ACCT 311 questions, answered

What textbook does ACCT 311 use?

Garrison, Noreen and Brewer's Managerial Accounting, from the prologue and cost concepts through job-order and process costing, CVP, ABC, budgeting, differential analysis and capital budgeting.

How long is the ACCT 311 research paper?

Eight to ten pages in current APA format on a topic related to cost accounting theories, using at least five scholarly resources, worth 125 points in Module/Week 7.

Do ACCT 311 forum replies need citations?

Replies must be at least 250 words; outside research is encouraged but not required, while each thread needs two citations other than the textbook.

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