Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study

Secondary data is collected by someone other than the present researcher for current research and originally collected for other purposes. Generally secondary data is publicly available for researchers such as census information, academic publications, statistical agencies etc. Accounting related re...

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Main Author: Rengasamy, Dhanuskodi
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77215
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description Secondary data is collected by someone other than the present researcher for current research and originally collected for other purposes. Generally secondary data is publicly available for researchers such as census information, academic publications, statistical agencies etc. Accounting related researches are facing challenge of obtaining valid and reliable primary data. But the availability of secondary data for accounting research is abundant. Many Accounting researches are conducted based on secondary data is called ‘secondary data based accounting research’. Most of the accounting research is related to accounting practices and professions. The objective of this conceptual paper is to describe concepts, advantages, factors and sources of secondary data based accounting research. There is a wide scope of opportunity for conducting research in accounting, based on secondary data. Keywords: Research, accounting research, secondary data, and secondary data based accounting research.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-772152020-01-31T05:55:55Z Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study Rengasamy, Dhanuskodi Secondary data is collected by someone other than the present researcher for current research and originally collected for other purposes. Generally secondary data is publicly available for researchers such as census information, academic publications, statistical agencies etc. Accounting related researches are facing challenge of obtaining valid and reliable primary data. But the availability of secondary data for accounting research is abundant. Many Accounting researches are conducted based on secondary data is called ‘secondary data based accounting research’. Most of the accounting research is related to accounting practices and professions. The objective of this conceptual paper is to describe concepts, advantages, factors and sources of secondary data based accounting research. There is a wide scope of opportunity for conducting research in accounting, based on secondary data. Keywords: Research, accounting research, secondary data, and secondary data based accounting research. 2016 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77215 English restricted
spellingShingle Rengasamy, Dhanuskodi
Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title_full Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title_fullStr Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title_full_unstemmed Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title_short Adopting secondary Data is Boon for Accounting Research- Conceptual study
title_sort adopting secondary data is boon for accounting research- conceptual study
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77215