GRA 6276 Research Methods for Master of Professional Accountancy - RESIT EXAMINATION
GRA 6276 Research Methods for Master of Professional Accountancy - RESIT EXAMINATION
This course is replaced by a new methodology course teached in English.
Resit examination autumn 2017 and probably spring 2018 and autumn 2018.
The course is compulsory for students who are writing a master thesis for the master programme in professional accountancy (GRA 1920). The course may be replaced by another equivalent course at the master level.
The students shall gain an understanding of research methods that are relevant for the main subject areas of the master programme in professional accountancy. The course will focus on training students to formulate a well-defined problem for discussion and to find a research design that is suitable for throwing light on the problem. The students shall also learn how to find relevant information in the literature and databases. The course will also discuss issues relating to research ethics. Approx. 12 teaching hours will be devoted to legal method and quantitative / qualitative methods, and students have to choose one or the other. During the course the students shall decide on a topic for their master thesis and must prepare and submit a hand-in project for their thesis.
By means of joint literature and citation searches the students shall acquire knowledge about various search methods for obtaining information.
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- Philosophy of science
- The research process
- Formulating problems to be addressed
- Research designs
- Problems relating to research ethics
- Data collection
- Legal methods
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- Literature search
- Advice on writing the master thesis
The course consists of lectures, seminars and discussions.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on It's learning or text book.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course start.
At resit, all exam components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have specific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Grouping: Group/Individual Duration ? Comment: A mandatory element of the course is to prepare and get approved a first outline of the master thesis, cf. the course description of GRA 1920. The outline must as a minimum include a well-defined and operational approach to the problem, a complete overview of the contents of the thesis, a complete description of the method to be applied to throw light on the problem and a review of the relevant literature to be used as references in the master thesis. The outline is graded pass/fail. Students that follow the course without the intention to produce a GRA 1920 master thesis are exempted from preparing such outline. Exam code: GRA62763 Grading scale: Pass/fail Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 10 Duration ? Comment: Work assignment by the library Exam code: GRA62764 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 20 Duration ? Comment: Hand-in project related to statistical software Exam code: GRA62764 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Invigilation Weight: 70 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Exam code: GRA62764 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.