Topic

Accounting related Please choose more international ones instead of topics in Africa (FYI The assignment is from Hong Kong)"1.3

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this Module, you should be able to:

1. Define a problem or topic for systematic investigation and research.

2. Obtain and critically assess literature relevant to the research undertaken.

3. Select and justify appropriate research methods and collect, analyse and interpret information.

4. Form conclusions which are relevant to the investigation.

5. Produce a clear and concise Dissertation.

You will receive a substantial amount of support material through this Module Guide, the Study Guide and also the Lecture notes that are available as a set of PowerPoint presentation slides. However, you must be clear from the very beginning that much of what you learn in the Dissertation Module will be dependent not only on the material supplied but also additional reading matter relevant to your own study. The Dissertation itself will largely be down to you, and this is where a considerable amount of your understanding of applied research will come from. Therefore this is a subject that is very much learnt by 'doing', and the more research you do in the future
the better a researcher you will become.

2.2.3 Identify Research Method

Having identified a topic that you know has the potential to lead to an interesting and worthwhile study, you will then have gone on to clarify the overall Aim and identify relevant Research Objectives. For each of your Objectives you need to ask yourself a few important questions. This is a systematic appraisal of how the research will be conducted in practice and is based on the following questions;

- What do you need to find out?
- How could this be done?
- What approach(es) are known to work?
- Which research techniques are appropriate?

If you can answer all of these questions in a sensible manner then you are well on the way to completing a successful study. You obviously need to think about these questions carefully (and indeed there may well be many other relevant questions that you need to consider as well). In the first instance you should be able to determine whether your research is mainly quantitative (in which case the information you collect will be quite structured such as through a questionnaire or through accessing existing datasets or statistics etc.) or qualitative (involving much ‘softer' and less structured information through interviews, narratives, written reports etc.). Of course it may be that your study will employ both of these methods and this is an approach that can pay great dividends when it comes to validating your main findings and ultimately be reflected in a higher mark for your submission.

Another issue to consider relates to over what period of time do you need to gather the information. For some studies a single point in time is sufficient (such as with the investigation mentioned above regarding a new intranet platform). Other studies will require you to consider historical data, for example in attempting to identify important trends over a period of time.

Attachment:- Dissertation Module.rar