MA619 Accounting Research
Minor Assignment – Literature Review (30%)
Requirements
As this is a research unit, and the objective is that you can carry out a research project in Accounting, Finance or Business. You may choose a research topic or you will be given a research topic by your Lecturer. You will choose your research topic no later than week 3 of your course. DO NOT COMMENCE YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM YOUR LECTURER
It is essential that you decide promptly your area of research interest which can be in ANY of the fields of Accounting, Finance or Business. You have only 12 weeks to complete this course!
Your Minor Assignment (30%) will be a Literature Review for your Research Report. (70%)
Once you have chosen your topic or been allocated a topic, you arc required to find at least 20 relevant research articles. You may need more. The aim is for you to write a Literature Review (Minor Assignment) using the literature discovered.
A Literature Review of the 20 articles (use more if you wish), presents what has been written in the past and will inform your research question which will be solved in your Research Report (Major Assignment)(70%) due at the end of Week 12
Note: It is strongly recommended you read carefully Chcnnhall/ Langfield-Smith (2007) and Gcorgc/Jones/llarvcy (2014) for ideas of how to write a scholarly piece reviewing what has happened in the past and what conclusions can be drawn from previous work.
Extract from Langfield-Smith (2007)
Objective
The objective of this paper is to review the research from various disciplines which examines performance measures, and to evaluate the state of knowledge in this area.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper was to review and critique research that examines performance measures used by various disciplines including Management Accounting Future research
Analysis of research w hich examines the use of subjective and objective performance measures under different strategies revealed consistencies, but also raised questions about the forms of performance measures suitable for other employee eroups.