Accounting Research and Practice / ACCT 403

College of Administration and Finance Sciences
Assignment (2)
Deadline: Saturday 04/05/2024@ 23:59
Course Name: Accounting Research
and Practice
Student’s Name:
Course Code: ACCT 403
Student’s ID Number:
Semester: 2nd
CRN:
Academic Year: 2023-2024
For Instructor’s Use only
Instructor’s Name:
Students’ Grade:
/15
Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
• The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via allocated
folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be
reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover
page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submission will NOT be accepted.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or
other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answers must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font.
No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism.
• Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
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Assignment Question(s):
(Marks. 15)
Q1. Fundamental questions for a survey research need to be answered at the design stage are:
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What sort of survey are you contemplating?
What sort of respondent are you targeting?
What questions do you want answers to?
What response categories are you contemplating?
What sequence of questions should you pursue?
What is the layout of the survey instrument?
How will the sample be selected?
Develop an example of your own on Survey research by answering to all the above questions for
a quality design.(5 Marks)
Answer:
Q2. What do you understand by Archival Research? Discuss its importance as a research method
and give at least one example of a research paper (preferably Accounting paper) conducted be
Archival research (5 Mark)
Answer:
Q3. What are the essential Ethical guidelines that the researcher needs? (5 Mark)
Answer: