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(Semester 2, 2023/2024)
Assessed Coursework
LUBS5062M Accounting and Finance Dissertation
25% Assignment
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General
This 3,000 word research proposal assignment accounts for 25 per cent of the module mark. The Dissertation will account for the remaining 75 per cent of the module mark.
Requirement
Prepare a research proposal for your dissertation research project. Within the research proposal you should:
1. Synthesize the current understanding of your research topic by providing a comprehensive literature review of previous research on the subject.
2. Identify and justify a potential gap in the literature with respect to your research topic.
3. Define the research question(s) your research project aims to answer and explain how they are connected to the identified gap(s) in the literature.
and/or
Develop and explain formal hypotheses. Hypotheses should be grounded in the literature and address identified gap(s) in the literature.
4. Identify and explain a suitable research methodology for answering the proposed research question(s) and/or hypotheses.
5. Identify the data required to answer the proposed research question(s) and/or hypotheses by describing in detail the research sample and the data collection process.
6. Collect the data, provide the sample description and present the descriptive statistics (if data is to be collected manually, a sub-sample of around 20% is adequate for descriptive statistics). As a minimum requirement in this section, you need to provide the ‘number of observations’ as well as the ‘mean’, ‘median’, ‘standard deviation’, ‘minimum’ and ‘maximum’ statistics for model variables.
Additional information:
You must use the following formatting for your assignment:
Font style Arial
Font size 12
Spacing 1.5
You must use Harvard referencing for your assignment. You must provide citations and a list of references.
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Assignments should be a maximum of 3000 words in length.
All coursework assignments that contribute to the assessment of a module are subject to a word limit, as specified on the assessment brief. The word limit is an extremely important aspect of good academic practice, and must be adhered to. Unless stated otherwise in the relevant module handbook (if one has been provided), the word count includes EVERYTHING (i.e. all text in the main body of the assignment including summaries, subtitles, contents pages, tables, supportive material whether in footnotes or in-text references) except the main title, reference list and/or bibliography and any appendices. It is not acceptable to present matters of substance, which should be included in the main body of the text, in the appendices (“appendix abuse”). It is not acceptable to attempt to hide words in graphs and diagrams; only text which is strictly necessary should be included in graphs and diagrams.
You are required to adhere to the word limit specified and state an accurate word count on the cover page of your assignment brief. Your declared word count must be accurate, and should not mislead. Making a fraudulent statement concerning the work submitted for assessment could be considered academic malpractice and investigated as such. If the amount of work submitted is higher than that specified by the word limit or that declared on your word count, this may be reflected in the mark awarded and noted through individual feedback given to you.
The deadline date for this assignment is 12:00:00 noon on Thursday 9th May 2024.
An electronic copy of the assignment must be submitted to the Assignment Submission area within the module resource on the Blackboard MINERVA website no later than 12:00:00 noon prompt on the deadline date.
Faxed, emailed or hard copies of the assignment will not be accepted.
Failure to meet this initial deadline will result in a reduction of marks, details of which can be found at the following place:
https://students.business.leeds.ac.uk/assessment/code-of-practice-on-assessment/
SUBMISSION
Please ensure that you leave sufficient time to complete the online submission process, as upload times can vary. Accessing the submission link before the deadline does NOT constitute completion of submission. You MUST click the ‘CONFIRM’ button before 12:00:00 noon for your assignment to be classed as submitted on time, if not you will need to submit to the Late Area and your assignment will be marked as late. It is your responsibility to ensure you upload the correct file to the MINERVA, and that it has uploaded successfully.