Assignment:
1. Identify an area of research that you believe is both important and interest, and write a short paragraph indicating why you believe this area of research is important, and why it is interest. (400 words)
Research area: Environmental accounting and reporting in sustainability frame work
2. Write down a research question that would guide your exploration in the area of research interest that you have identified. (approximately 100 words)
Research question: Does a financial statement that lacks vital environmental issues and activities reveal a ‘true and fair view" of the affairs of a company?
3. Find EIGHT (8) academic journal articles that relate to your area of research interest - write a maximum of 150 words for each article indicate why that article is relevant to your research, and the useful information and findings that it conveys for this project. (1200 words max)
4. Discuss the findings of the research above in relation to your research question (approximately300 words)
5. In approximately 500 words indicate which of the accounting theories you have studied this semester might help to explain your research questions, and why these accounting theories would be appropriate.
Accounting theories: stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, institutional theory
Refer to academic journals, but not Wikipedia,etc
Use journals and textbooks published after 2000. Cite references in Harvard style.