Professional Documents
Culture Documents
PROPOSAL
MAIN POINTS
Clear topics: relevant to accounting issues?
Accounting = Definition, Measurement/Valuation,
Presentation & Disclosure
Management accounting, financial accounting,
auditing,accounting information systems, financial
reporting, management control systems, shariah
accounting, forensic accounting, behavioral accounting?
Internal consistence:
Research problems
Objective and contribution
Theory and concepts
Hypothesis (Quantitative)
Research Methods
PART I:
RESEARCH BACKGROUND
Consist of contextual stories about
the issue being studied :
Why is the issue interesting?
How is the phenomenon in the Indonesia Fenomena Gap
context?
What have been studied about the issue?
(the main findings) Research Gap
What are the weaknesses of the previous
studies? Originality
What is your research focus that make it
different from the previous ones?
If qualitative, explain why qualitative?
(ontology, epistemology etc)
Problem formulation:
Explain in one/two paragraph, what are the research
problems that make you investigate the issue?
Write your research questions
Research Objectives:
What you intend from your research
Contribution:
Based on yours findings, what are the benefits of your
study (to accounting knowledge and practice/policies))
PART 2:
The Underlying Theories:
Explain the theory (what & how)
Why are the theories relevant to your research?
Concepts of variables
What, how & why?
Review the Previous studies
Explain (what have been studied, where, how and the
findings)
Critically evaluate the weaknesses of previous studies
Theoretical Framework and Hypothesis
Development (QUANTITATIVE)
Reasoning of research context (QUALITATIVE)
PART 3:
Research Design:
Descriptive, Exploratory, Explanatory?
Testing Hypothesis or qualitative?
If Qualitative: ontology, epistemology, methodology?
Research Setting (for Case Study)
Variable Definition and Measurement (Quantitative)
Population, Sample & Sampling (Quantitative)
Who are the Informan? (Qualitative)
Data Sources and Collection methods (what will you do in
the fields?)
Research Instruments
Testing the quality of data
Data analysis (operationally how)
QUALITATIVE
Tend to focus on the sociology and psychology
of accounting
Do not involve measurement, indicators, etc
Need a wide range of theories (social, cultural,
pollical, etc) to explain the findings
Different from Quantitative.
FORMAL WRITING
Write Outline
Each chapter consist of sub chapter
Sub chapter consist of paragraph
Each paragraph has one main idea and some supporting
ideas (opinions, data, research findings, etc)
Use argumentative sentences:
Never write very long sentences
Use appropriate conjunction
Write complete sentence structure
Choose formal words
So What? ......
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1911-3846.12063/full
DOI: 10.1111/ijau.12040
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