Module ASB-4927:
Accounting Dissertation J

Module Facts

Run by Bangor Business School

60.000 Credits or 30.000 ECTS Credits

Semester 3

Organiser: Prof Doris Merkl-Davies

Overall aims and purpose

To provide an opportunity to initiate, plan and accomplish a substantial piece of work entailing an extensive review of the existing published theoretical and empirical literature on one of three prescribed accounting topics, augmented by the use of databases and the application of quantitative methods in further analysis of that topic.

Course content

Students will follow a series of workshops in Semester 2 and Semester 3, each resulting in a piece of coursework that will constitute individual chapters of the dissertation. The workshops include:

  1. Conducting and writing a literature review

  2. Research methodology (choice of 1 from the 3 alternatives below): 2.1. Topic 1: Accounting Quality • Regression analyses examining the determinants and/or effects of accounting quality (e.g., earnings management). 2.2. Topic 2: Accounting Conservatism • Regression analyses examining the determinants and/or effects of accounting conservatism

  3. Data collection, and presentation of results

Learning outcomes

Assessment Methods

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