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:
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Conducting and writing a literature review
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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
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Data collection, and presentation of results
Learning outcomes
Assessment Methods
Teaching and Learning Strategy
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Courses including this module
Compulsory in courses:
- N4AK: MSc Accounting and Banking year 1 (MSC/ACB)
- N4AN: MSc Accounting and Banking (with Incorporated Pre-Masters) year 1 (MSC/ACB1)
- N4AJ: MSc Accounting year 1 (MSC/ACC)
- N4AM: MSc Accounting (with Incorporated Pre-Masters) year 1 (MSC/ACC1)
- N4AP: MSc Accounting and Finance (with Incorporated Pre-Masters) year 1 (MSC/ACCF1)
- N4AG: MSc Accounting and Finance year 1 (MSC/ACCFIN)