Complete an outline for your project. It should reflect your critical thinking. This is the mental. process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, analyzing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.

Evaluation Criteria: Your project should demonstrate

• Developed technical skills required to use electronic research tools for locating, assessing and validating authoritative answers to tax research questions.
• Enhanced writing and presentation skills by addressing research findings to the intended audience.
• A developed understanding of the various sources of authority on federal tax law and the ability to assess and validate them.
• A developed appreciation for the role of the IRS as enforcer of tax laws and the role of tax professionals in helping their clients to ethically minimize their tax liabilities within the confines of the law.
• A developed appreciation for the fact that tax systems enable societies to be created and sustained and that the accounting profession has a duty to help create and sustain responsible tax policy.

Complete this outline in a WORD document.

The project is for Publication 946, How to Depreciate Property obtained from IRS Website. Treat this project as if you are teaching the subject of your publication to the class or as if you are doing a presentation for your workgroup, manager, client, etc.