0000059827 00000 n 185 0 obj <> endobj xref 185 34 0000000016 00000 n "The Relationship between Academic Accounting Research and Professional Practice," in Bridging the Gap between Academic Accounting Research and Professional Practice, eds.
"Reading and Understanding Academic Research in Accounting: A Guide for Students.".
[14], Other possible methodologies include the use of case studies, computer simulations and field research. [1][2] It encompasses a broad range of topics including financial accounting research, management accounting research, auditing research, capital market research, accountability research, social responsibility research and taxation research. “Characterizing Accounting Research.”, Gordon, Teresa P., and Jason C. Porter. 2011. Inductive studies follow the route below: Referring to the example above, the effects of labour migration within the EU on the formation of multicultural teams in UK organizations can be accessed through finding answers to the following research questions: Research question: How does labour migration within the EU effect the formation of multicultural teams in UK?
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0000009148 00000 n They are by no means exhaustive, and many academic accounting studies resist simple classification. 0000011535 00000 n Research approach can be divided into three types: The relevance of hypotheses to the study is the main distinctive point between deductive and inductive approaches. 0000012798 00000 n Accounting research examines how accounting is used by individuals, organizations and government as well as the consequences that these practices have. 0000059804 00000 n [4] Academic accounting research can make significant contribution to accounting practice,[4][1] although changes in accounting education and the accounting academia in recent decades have led to a divide between academia and practice in accounting. Haddon, who has conducted much research in this field, makes a number of suggestions about the type of research that … One view is that a lack of training in reading academic research may lead practicing accountants "to dismiss what could be very helpful information as either too complicated or too disconnected to be useful";[4] while another view points to fundamental failures in academic research in business and economics in general—for example that researchers have failed to effectively question prevailing economic and business models. 0000009747 00000 n [1], Academic accounting research addresses a range of broad topical areas within accounting, using a wide variety of methodologies and theories.
0000007139 00000 n 0000059781 00000 n Research for the right staff members can be done via the internet, consultancy firms and institutions of higher learning. “Accounting Program Research Rankings by Topical Area and Methodology.”, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), "Accounting Research: A Bibliometric Analysis", "Accounting Project Topics and Materials", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Accounting_research&oldid=963598773, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, —Anthony Hopwood, in his address to the 2006. behavioral research drawing on psychology. Let’s illustrate the application of each research approach for a following study: Effects of labour migration within the EU on the formation of multicultural teams in UK organizations.
Guthrie, J., Roger Burritt and Elaine Evans. 0000002898 00000 n My e-book, The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Dissertation in Business Studies: a step by step assistance contains discussions of theory and application of research approaches.
[5] The mid-1970s saw a shift from the dominance of normative research to: The contribution of academic accounting research to accounting practice includes the assessment of current accounting practices, the development of new practices, and the development of university curricula: For example, academic accounting research[12] "can improve the understanding of how stakeholders actually use the information accountants provide", and prior academic studies have contributed to fraud risk assessment, the future direction of the profession, and the impact of changing accounting standards. Important elements of dissertations such as research philosophy, research design, methods of data collection, data analysis and sampling are explained in this e-book in simple words. A careful consideration of study regarding a particular concern or problem using scientific methods.
interdisciplinary research that has adapted methods from a wide variety of social sciences, critical research using Marxian and other, This page was last edited on 20 June 2020, at 18:23. Chapter 3: Methodology and Design sort of research, such as Frissen and Punie (1998), who study the role of technologies in the lives of busy people. [...] Indeed the very role of accounting research is in part to make both accounting and our knowledge of it different, to move forward our understandings of accounting and, at times, the practice of accounting itself. Accounting research has undergone significant changes in the past decades. 0000084206 00000 n Deductive approach tests the validity of assumptions (or theories/hypotheses) in hand, whereas inductive approach contributes to the emergence of new theories and generalizations.
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