ACCT 401 Individual Taxation Sample Papers, Week by Week

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ACCT 401 covers the law and accounting of federal income tax for individuals and unincorporated businesses, from filing status and gross income to deductions, credits, cost recovery, compensation and home ownership. The samples below follow its four group forums: voluntary compliance and the tax gap, the earned income tax credit, bonus depreciation and the mortgage interest deduction.

CourseACCT 401 Individual Taxation (ACCT401)
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 401 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What ACCT 401 covers

Spilker et al.'s Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities is read in four blocks of chapters, each studied in one module/week and reviewed in the next, when a Connect homework set and an open-book exam of 40 multiple-choice questions follow.

Each forum thread runs at least 500 words with two citations other than the textbook, followed by replies of at least 250 words to two classmates. The Comprehensive Problem, due in Module/Week 7, is a full individual return from the textbook prepared in any tax software the student chooses, as long as the return can be attached to the submission.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes ACCT 401 Individual Taxation this way:
This course provides applied learning techniques of the U. S. federal taxation system. Emphasis is placed on individual and self-employed taxpayers through the study of the Internal Revenue Tax Code. The role of technology in the preparation and data collection of information will be included.

ACCT 401 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 Homework 1 and Exam 1 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 3Group Discussion Board Forum 250Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Connect Homework 2 and Exam 2 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 5Group Discussion Board Forum 350Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Connect Homework 3 and Exam 3 onlyNo written paper this week
Week 7Group Discussion Board Forum 4 (Comprehensive Problem also due)50Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Connect Homework 4 and Exam 4 onlyNo written paper this week

Where ACCT 401 papers lose points

ACCT 401 posts lose points when threads describe a tax rule without applying it to a taxpayer, when the two outside citations are missing or come from tax-preparation blogs, when replies stop short of 250 words and when the biblical principle the course asks students to apply is mentioned only in passing.

Using a ACCT 401 sample well

Each forum sample takes a provision from the week's chapters, works through a short computation for a composite taxpayer and weighs research on how the provision changes behavior, the way a tax adviser explains a rule to a client. The replies show how to add a second source or a counterexample to a classmate's argument.

ACCT 401 questions, answered

What textbook does ACCT 401 use?

Spilker et al.'s Taxation of Individuals and Business Entities, custom edition, read chapters 1 through 14 in four blocks across the eight modules/weeks.

How long are ACCT 401 forum posts?

An ACCT 401 thread needs 500 words or more and two outside citations, and each of the two replies to classmates is at least 250 words.

What is the ACCT 401 Comprehensive Problem?

A 125-point individual tax return problem from the textbook, completed in Module/Week 7 in tax software of the student's choosing and attached as an exported file.

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