Estate Planning – BUSI 354
CG • Section 8WK • 11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 • Modified 02/01/2024
Course Description
Estate Planning focuses on the efficient conservation and transfer of wealth, consistent with the goals of a financial planner’s clients. It is a study of the legal, tax, financial and non-financial aspects of this process, covering topics such as: trusts, wills, probate, advanced directives, charitable giving, wealth transfers, and related taxes.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale
Estate planning ensures that clients’ needs and wishes are met when they are no longer able to do so for themselves, providing for families, financial interests, and long-term goals. This course is designed to teach the student how to use financial planning and legal tools to plan for incapacity, family dynamics, death, and gifting goals of individual clients.
Course Assignment
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.
Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will respond to 6 Discussion prompts that will elaborate on the course textbook material and will analyze a topic or question presented in the course textbook material. The student will also reply to a classmate’s thread. Each thread must be at least 300 words, and each reply must be at least 150 words. Threads and replies each must contain one scholarly, legal, or biblical source integrated into the analysis and appropriately cited in current APA format.
The student will respond to a video interview with a potential client. Based on the interview, the student will submit a document that analyzes the probate and tax status of the client’s family without an estate plan. The student will then identify the estate planning issues for the family and begin to outline his/her estate plan. The memo must be at least 1,000 words in current APA format, and the use of 2 scholarly sources is required.
After completing the Estate Plan Assignment, the student will analyze his/her answers to the 10 questions asked during the quiz. The student will write a memo to his/her “supervisor” explaining his/her choices for the estate plan for Kathi and Darren. In this memo, the student must explain his/her rationale for choosing the answers that he/she chose during the Estate Plan Quiz. This memo must be 8–12 pages, double-spaced, and must conform to proper formatting, spelling, grammar, and current APA guidelines.
The student will read through and analyze the Estate Plan Scenario provided in the course. The student will then proceed to answer all 20 of the multiple-choice questions following the scenario. Once he/she has finished answering these questions, the student will then be ready to move on to the Estate Plan Assignment. This quiz will randomly ask 10 of the 20 questions that follow the Estate Plan Scenario. The student will have 10 minutes for the quiz, so the process of answering the questions must be done before the student attempts the quiz.
The student will complete 7 quizzes that cover the assigned reading. All quizzes are open-book/open-notes, and some questions will require calculations. The student may not receive help from another person while taking the quiz.
