ACCT 403 : Accounting Research and practices

Last Date for Submission 28 October 2017

You are required to work in this assignment individually.

Any suspicious activities or cheating will result zero grade in this assignment.

Assignment 2 is covering week 4 and week 5 materials:

Week 4 materials: Theory, Literature, and Hypotheses

Week 5 materials: Data Collection

Instructions

You can find different documents that will help you to develop your analysis and your ideas. But you have to avoid plagiarism. You have to write your own answers and analysis.

You have one document attached to this assignment which is a research paper. This assignment is an analysis of the research paper attached and will include also some questions requiring reading from your textbook and other documents.

Q 1

a- Analyze the following for the research paper attached:

· Population studied.

· Sample used in the research paper.

· Period studied.

b- What are the characteristics of a good sample?

Q 2 a- What are the hypotheses tested in the attached research paper ? Explain the results found for the hypotheses in the attached research paper ?

b-Define the dependent variable used in the attached research paper ? Define the independent variables used?

Explain the method of measurement of variables used in the attached research paper and list what are the different other methods of measurement that are used in other researches.

Q 3 List the different types of research method used in research papers ?

Q 4 How we can choose a research method?