This guide is for ACCT 511 Week 6 Interview Assignment, start to submission. Interview an accounting professional who is not a lawyer, write a 1,000-word essay on what you learned, post it, and reply to two classmates.
ACCT 511 is Advanced Business Law for Accountants, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's MS in Accounting. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as ACCT511; it is the same course.
| Course | ACCT 511 Advanced Business Law for Accountants |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 6 |
| Points | 80 points |
| Length | 1,000-word essay; 2 replies of at least 200 words |
| Sources | The interview |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Essay posted to a Discussion Board; current APA |
What ACCT 511 Week 6 Interview Assignment asks for
You conduct an interview with an accounting professional who is not a lawyer, then write a 1,000-word essay describing the interview and what you learned. You post the essay in a Discussion Board and reply to two classmates' essays in at least 200 words each. It is due in Module/Week 6 with textbook chapter 12. Worth 80 points.
Where it fits in ACCT 511
In the published schedule, Interview Assignment is one of 5 graded written assignments in ACCT 511. It follows Week 4 Research Project 1 and comes before Week 7 Discussion Board Forum 2.
How ACCT 511 Week 6 Interview Assignment is graded
Liberty grades Interview Assignment with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 80 points in the published guide. That is about 8% of the course's 1,010 points. Read the rubric first. Each row is a criterion, and the wording of the highest column is the closest thing you have to a model answer.
Course grades in ACCT 511 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 940 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Module/Week 1 begins on Monday at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends Friday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). Modules/Weeks 2-8 begin on Saturday morning at 12:00am. (ET) and end on Friday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The ACCT 511 Week 6 method, step by step
Pick one event and stay with it
Choose a single event or experience that fits the Interview Assignment prompt and that you can describe honestly. One well-examined event beats three summarized ones.
Describe it briefly and accurately
Tell what happened in a few sentences. Remove names and identifying details; the reader needs the situation, not the people.
Analyze it with course concepts
Explain the event through the course material. A reflection that never names a concept from the reading is a diary entry, not an assignment.
Bring in the evidence the guide asks for
Support the analysis with The interview. Use the sources to show that what you saw is a known pattern and what the literature says about preventing or handling it.
Say what you would do differently
Close the loop: what you learned, what you would change, and how it will shape your practice. Be concrete; a plan beats a promise.
Write in first person, formatted in APA
Use first person where you describe your own experience and keep the APA format for everything else. Check the length (1,000-word essay; 2 replies of at least 200 words).
A structure for ACCT 511 Week 6 Interview Assignment
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,100 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| The professional | Role, setting and experience (no confidential details). | ~150 words |
| Legal issues in their work | Contracts, liability, regulation they face. | ~400 words |
| How they manage legal risk | Engagement letters, documentation, counsel. | ~330 words |
| What you learned | Your takeaways. | ~220 words |
A topic angle that works
Ask about the legal side of the work specifically: engagement letters, liability insurance, regulatory exams, and times they consulted an attorney. The essay should connect their answers to the course topics.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
The CPA I interviewed, a partner in a small firm, said her most important legal document is the engagement letter. After a client once claimed the firm had promised to detect fraud, the firm rewrote its letters to state plainly that a review is not an audit and does not provide assurance against fraud.1 That matches the course's treatment of contract terms as the first line of defense against liability.
- A specific story.
- Connected to the course.
- Respects confidentiality.
Mistakes that cost points on ACCT 511 Week 6
- Interviewing a lawyer.
- Under 1,000 words.
- Forgetting the two replies.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: 1,000-word essay; 2 replies of at least 200 words
- Sources: The interview
- No names or identifying details of patients, clients or coworkers
- At least one course concept named and applied
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
Can I interview a lawyer for ACCT 511?
No. The interviewee must be an accounting professional who is not a lawyer.
How many points is ACCT 511 Week 6 Interview Assignment worth?
80 points in Liberty's published course guide for ACCT 511, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 8% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is ACCT 511 Week 6 the same in every section of ACCT 511?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for ACCT 511. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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