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Research Question: Accounting Problem/Opportunity
Topic - "Personal taxation system: a comparative study of Australia and Canada
Problem/Opportunity
(What space relating to the design or use of accounting numbers, internally or externally for an organisation, and its related controls are you interested in tackling or solving?)
Examples of Research Objectives
Understanding the role of budgets in high uncertainty contexts.
Investigating the role of financial measures alongside non-financial measures in communicating firm performance.
Analysing the effect of gender diversity on firm performance.
The Research Question is the translation of your research objective into a question - sometimes with more contextual or conceptual specificity. If I were to translate the above Research Objectives into Research Questions, I'd say:
What is the role of an organisational budget in the Covid-19 era?
How do non-financial performance measures enhance the communication of financial performance in organisations?
What is the impact of greater gender diversity in Boards, on firm performance?
Development of the Research Motivation
Why are you interested in tackling this Research Problem/Question? Why should anyone care about its investigation? Completing a research motivation can be done in a number of ways, a common approach is:
"Studies have shown XXX and YYY, but research has not clarified how ZZZ might work in this setting, etc. Understanding the working of ZZZ is important because..."
A motivation is not always a gap in the literature. Just because something has not been studies before, does not make it important. In social science research, another important thing to understand about research motivation, is that it might not be enough to say it has not been done in a certain context.
Literature Review & Theory Development
Review the previous studies that have been carried out from an academic stand point. Take the key variables/attributes of your research question and read as many studies as you can on them. Then write about what is already known.
1. Literature Review - Write about the studies that already speak about what we know, it should set you up for step 2; You can have separate sections for each variable of your Research Question.
Formulation of Hypotheses
Having introduced what the tension is - that is what you're exploring and why it's not clear what the answer is, come up with a question that defines what it is you are testing. So, you might say:
Hypothesis 1: Budgets are more/less helpful in high uncertainty organisations with more/less sophisticated information systems architectures.
Research Method
The Research Method section is the section where you explain how you will be testing your hypotheses. Are you using a quantitative (database driven, survey, experimental) or qualitative (field study) perspective?
Justify why you have chosen a particular approach - exploratory, deductive or inductive?
Explain why your Research Method helps answer your Hypotheses, which should relate to your Research Question.
Attachment:- Accounting Problem.rar