Objectifs

To enable you to write a high-quality thesis that explores and advances our current understanding of accounting practice.

Skills to be learned:

• Stata
• research methodology
• development of an interesting research question
• to test a research question
• empirical analysis
• big data manipulation
• scientific writing

Contenus

The first week we introduce you to the course and give you a basic introduction to research facilities at UNIL, and big data manipulation using STATA. Starting week 2 we progress as such, students present their progress, and we will give feedback to improve their work, both intellectually and methodologically. Week in and week out in this framework, we expect that by January we have a complete set of very high quality theses.

Références

Will be discussed in class.

Pré-requis

The class is limited to participants who are registered in the 2nd year of the MScCCF program. Other than that, there is no prerequisite for taking this class.

Evaluation

1ère tentative

Examen:

Sans examen (cf. modalités)  

Evaluation:

The grading will be based on your content development (100%).

Rattrapage

Examen:

Sans examen (cf. modalités)  

Evaluation:

First report will be completed