Assignment: Guidelines for Finding and Summarizing Articles Assignment:

For this assignment you were asked to locate and summarize one article published in an accounting practitioner journal. You are to read and summarize the articles dealing with some aspect of taxation (not just accounting, but taxation). These articles must be current (published in 2013 - 2015), list an author(s) in the byline, and appear in a professional accounting or tax journal (as per the Syllabus instructions).

These summaries must be one page, double-spaced. Please do not include a title or heading; your name as a header is sufficient to identify your paper. Please reference the article in the footer. Please give the article name, journal, and link (if available). Use no larger than Times New Roman 12-point font and no wider than 1-inch margins.

Article Choice

Is the article on some aspect of taxation? Is the article on a current topic? I.e., was the article published in 2012-2015? Did you get an article from a proper journal, NOT a newspaper or magazine? ((The Syllabus lists examples of journals and databases that can be used))

Summary itself.

Were you able to convey what the article was about? Did you speak about all the main points in the article? Was all the information you gave in the summary in the article itself? Is it clear from your summary that you understood the article?

Remember, do not explain why you choose the article or your own analysis of the article contents. The only thing to be concerned about is a summary of the article itself.

SGS/Clarity/Readability

Was your Spelling/Grammar/Syntax correct? Was the summary easy to read and understand?

Article Summaries

You are to read and provide a written summary of the journal article dealing with some aspect of taxation (not just accounting). The purpose of this assignment is to get you in the habit of reading tax articles, particularly those dealing with current tax developments, and understanding what impact tax law changes have on your personal and business decisions.

Each article summary must be at least one page, double spaced, written in your own words.These article summaries must be current and taken from articles that were published in 2013 or later.

Article: State Taxation of Financial Institutions: A Multidimensional Landscape, Editor: Sarah McGahan and Co-Authors: Lutof Awdeh, J.D.