Description
Select a topic from the list provided below.
The Early History of Accounting
The Role of Ethics in Accounting
- The Conceptual Framework of Accounting (SFACs)
- The History and Pursuit of a Conceptual Framework of Accounting
- Accounting Research Methodologies
- The Historical Development of International Accounting
- The Uses of International Accounting Standards
- IFRS & U.S. GAAP Convergence and related issues
- The Structure and Development of the FASB
- The Structure and Development of the IASB
- The Standards Overload Problem
- Emergent Issues and Challenges Impacting the Financial Reporting Environment
- Earnings Quality and Related Issues
- The Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting
- The Historical Development of the Income Statement and Emergent Issues Related to the Income Statement
- The Historical Development of the Balance Sheet and Emergent Issues Related to the Balance Sheet
- The Historical Development of the Statement of Cash Flows and Emergent Issues Related to the Statement of Cash Flows
- The Development of the Working Capital Concept and/or Working Capital Management
- Current/Fair Value and Related Issues
- Fair Value vs. Historical Cost Valuation and Related Issues
- Other accounting theory-related topics (by prior approval of the professor – email directly for approval of a topic not on this list before beginning your paper)
- Research Paper Instructions:
- Article Research Papers and Posting: This is a graduate course and students will be expected to research and write papers summarizing in their own words what they have found on their topic as a result of their research. Research is a theoretical review of relevant literature and application of findings in the literature to a topic related to a specific industry, field, or business problem.
The research must be conducted using peer-reviewed trade or academic journals. While Blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, course textbooks, popular magazines, newspaper articles, online websites, etc. are helpful for providing background information, these resources are NOT suitable resources for this research assignment.