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Thank you so much.
1) May I know how to reference interviews conducted, because most of the information I have were obtained from interviews with the staff.
2) How do I reference a company profile or an internal report? Do I have to scan the page from the company profile where I got the information from,and attach it as an appendix?
If you’re taking about percentages/ units of ratios from your graph ratios there is no need to refrence this again in the narrative, provided you’ve referenced the graph. In the same manner there is no need to refrence figures from the financial statements such as revenue or expenses.
It will be prudent however to refrence the notes to the financial statements.
Acceptable formats are
1. (Volkswagen.com, 2018)
2. (Volkswagen.com, 2018 p67)It’s not necessary to refrence the page, but it’s a good addition and it makes your work look professional, so why not??
It will be better even if you can get the information about the increase in impairment from an external article, as these are considered more credible than internal sources. I understand this may not be possible for every item but try as much as you can to use external sources.
Limit the use of numbers, Let your graphs do the talking, and try to like your financial analysis to you business analysis for a more in depth analysis and consequently a higher grade.
Yes, your format is also correct.
In text
(ABC.com, 2018)
In reference list
ABC.com. (2018). ABC annual report. [online] Available at: http://www.abc.com [Accessed 21 Oct. 2019].It is important to be consistent, you can use the website- citethisforme.com for your referencing, it is important to be consistent.
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1) May I know how to reference interviews conducted, because most of the information I have were obtained from interviews with the staff.
2) How do I reference an internal report or a company profile not available online? Do I have to scan the page from the company profile or report where I got the information from,and attach it as an appendix?
3) Do I have to get and submit a confidentiality letter from the company stating that I was allowed to use company information?
Thank You
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May someone please answer me. I have been asking these questions for so long but no one has helped me.
1) May I know how to reference interviews conducted, because most of the information I have were obtained from interviews with the staff.
2) How do I reference an internal report or a company profile not available online? Do I have to scan the page from the company profile or report where I got the information from,and attach it as an appendix?
3) Do I have to get and submit a confidentiality letter from the company stating that I was allowed to use company information?
Thank You
1. You need to have an outline of each interview in the appendices. In this you should state the position of the person interviewed, and date. In your work you then cross-refer the reader to the appropriate appendix for the various points.
2. Scan the document(s) and include this file in with your submission. Reference then in the normal way
3. Most definitely – it actually tells you that you need to do this in the Information Pack as is part of research ethics. (And something you should me under ethics in Part 2)
Thank you for your reply
1) May you please show me an example of how an interview is to be written in the in-text citation and reference list?
2) Am I supposed to mention the name of the company I am researching, in my report, as I was advised that when researching, I should maintain confidentiality and not give the name of the company?
3) I am doing topic 14. Should I focus only on the impact of the investment on the organisation and stakeholders, or should I talk about how the investment should be done for a greater good of the world and how it affects the people?
4) Should the reasons for choosing the topic and organisation, be my personal reasons or because “no one has researched it and I should contribute to the business and economy by doing so”?
5) In my introduction, should I introduce information about the organisation, or should I generalize it and talk about how companies in other countries are investing as well, and then talk about my organisation?
6) When I talk about my sources of information, should i talk about its benefits, limitations and how I overcame my limitations?
is it possible to reference too much?
like if I’m talking about the specification of a company’s product (bike has a 70cc engine), if i link to it’s product page on the website (that states the specification), will that be too much?
What if i don;t mention it? Is it necessary to reference every single fact? What if I hyperlink to the fact instead?
1. As you should have an outline of the interview questions and answers you need to support your statements with these. An example might be “The Prodction Manager confirmed that …. ” (See Appendix 3 p.2) . These appendices would form a file to be submitted with your report.
2. If you want or need to have company anonymity then you have to det permission from Brookes to do so. You should do this sooner rather than later by emailing them the details but the company name and nature needs to be stated in this email together with your letter of authority to use their data on the official letterhead.
3. Normally the focus would be on how the investment meets the company’s strategic objectives (which I would expect to be one of your research questions) Benefiting mankind might be something you mention very briefly in your conclusion
4. Either or both -you are the only one knows why you chose it!
5. The reader needs some brief information about the company to understand the report usually and to give the study an appropriate context
6. You need to discuss limitations in Part 2 and their potential impact on the findings
Thank you so much
I had personal communications and when I googled on how to reference it, it said the following:
Elements to include
Name of interviewee (including initials); Full details of the date (day, month and year), and type of communication
Example(Ayrs, R. N. 2011, personal communication, 2 March)
or
On 2 March 2011, in a personal interview Ms R. N. Ayers confirmed ….
And for the reference list:
NOTE: Personal communications are not included in the list of references at the end.
Is it correct to follow this method? Please advice
Hello,
I am using Word in-app referencing of Harvard Anglia. And I am doing most of my RAP research online, which means I’m using the categories “websites” and “document on websites” (for pdfs) when referencing. For web journals like Forbes and Business Insider, I have been using the authors’ name under “author” so for example:
Author: Petro G
Name of Webpage: here, I use the title of the article
Name of Website: Forbes
Year: 2017However, when I generate the reference list, it doesn’t show the name of the website. (I realise the name of the website here, would hold more weight if seen in the in-text citation.) However, because of the recommended fields in the system, the reference list generated does not show Forbes at all. This is what I get:
Petro, G., 2017. Title here in Italics. [Online]
Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregpetro/2017/08/02/Titlehereinitallicst/#1b10e05da808
[Accessed 7 February 2020].I have read earlier in this forum that it is better to use the name of the web journals instead of the authors’ names. I would like to know which way would be better while I still have time to change it. Any feedback will be highly appreciated.
Thank you
If you have the author’s name stick with it! Although you say Forbes does not appear at all, it is showing in the link.
The importance of referencing (see the Open Tuition Ultimate Guide to Referencing your RAP on our homepage) is to acknowledge the work of an author/researcher(s) and allow the reader to find the original document. Your current referencing method allows this so personally I see no real issues.
I just found this site, I wish I did earlier. In explaining the Code of corporate governance, I put the references at the end of the brief paraphrased paragraphs of each provision of the code, but I led the paragraphs mentioning the UK code. I found online you could reference like that as long as the paraphrased paragraph is from the same source. Just learning now how wrong I was. I checked with write check, I had 4% similarity. They were headers and similar words you can’t avoid like 2 executive directors, the chairman and the CEO, as well as the definition of corporate governance which was referenced and quoted, each less than 1%, but aggregated to 4%. I am so scared right now as I do not want any trouble. I wished I had found this site earlier so. My mentor did not even flag it for me. It is so painful after all the hard work of taking the time to learn how to paraphrase and perfecting it. I am terrified. Thank you so much for this site, it is very good. I was happy going into my last exam but ve now lost motivation. I just hope I will not be referred for discipline.
Please stop worrying neris, if you only have a score of 4% from WriteCheck that is nothing in the grand scheme of things -especially as you say they were mostly headers.
In fact you can cite actual provisions from the Code if necessary because it is like legislation, the wording sometimes needs to be precise -but do ensure you do not overdue do it Quoting from the Code is not therefore in the same category as using passages from articles and books where you would be plagiarising the work of another if you keep copying their words.
However learning to precisely and paraphrase is a good skill and therefore you have done the right thing in your report.
Now stop beating yourself up!
Hi @trephena,
Can you please tell me how can I reference a youtube video? What should I be including in the in-text citation?
Thank you so much. I have one more question regarding referencing. First, I want to tell you that I have read all the beautiful referencing articles on Opentuition and this made my life much easier.
My question is for example, I read an article and decided to include it in my report. There is no author name but I can use website name and website name is AUTOCAR. So in my intext citation, Can I include it as (Autocar, 2017) instead of (AUTOCAR, 2017)?
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1. My question is for example, I read an article and decided to include it in my report. There is no author name but I can use website name and website name is AUTOCAR. So in my intext citation, Can I include it as (Autocar, 2017) instead of (AUTOCAR, 2017)?
2. Can you please tell me how can I reference a youtube video? What should I be including in the in-text citation?
Good you seem to have grasped the principle about referencing (ensuring that a source is referenced and able to be identified if if there is no named author). Lower case (Autocar, 2017) is preferred. Remember too if by chance you used two or more articles from Autocrat from 2017 you would need to have an ‘appendage’ at the end to distinguish: (Autocar, 2017a), (Autocar, 2017b), (Autocar, 2017c ) etc. In accordance with Golden Rule 4 of the Open Tuition Ultimate Guide to Referencing.
2. In the text (YouTube, year) and in the list YouTube (year): official name of video or brief title of what the video us about, accessed [DATE], available at [link to it]
Thank you so much mam. I have another question. In part 3 of my report I was discussing an increase in sales and what I did was that I took the figures from a website and created a graph on excel and in excel I included a screenshot of the figures plus the link to that particular website but In my report I have not included any in-text citation for that when I say that e.g there is a % increase in sales in Russia. I hope the markers don’t tell me that I lacked referencing.
Can you please tell me that in this case giving the details of the source in excel only and not including any in-text citation in report is right or wrong?For the reasoning parts I am making sure that I give reference.
I have a question please. When I was doing my excel calculations and creating graphs, I used adjusted figures for 2017 because in 2018, the company took up a new accounting standard and to make the 3 year figures comparable I applied that retrospectively and took the adjusted figures. Now that I am writing my part 3, In the articles which I find on the internet, they aren’t using adjusted figures so now its conflicting with my excel work and graphs.
Please help. Should I not take the adjusted figures in my excel workings for that particular year?
In answer to your first question – put either Souce: Appendix xx where it is a graph or diagram or (see Appendix xx) for text
Your second question has absolutely nothing to do with Harvard Referencing! Could you please try to post in the correct place (not just where you last had a question)?
It belongs to general questions about Topic 8.
You mention things like this in your limitations at the beginning and possibly insert a comment on your spreadsheet to explain the differing figures
Okay thank you. I have another question.
So I read an article on the internet and it said that it was reported by for example, John Dave and edited by Henry mac and Sheela ben. So now in my in-text citation, should I include (Dave, 2019) or (Dave, Mac & Ben, 2019)?
When using ‘second-hand’ referencing I.e. not the researcher ‘s or author’s original work then you should normally put (Dave, [year of Dave’s actual work] as cited in Mac & Ben, 2019) in your text
Sorry mam can you please explain what does second hand referencing mean?
I have one more question please. I read an article on the website Seeking alpha and the author is named ”the outsider”. So as there is no real name for the author, what should be the in-text citation?
Should it be:
(outsider, 2017)OR
(Seekingalpha, 2017)Thanks.
Hi, needed some advice about referencing my Excel Appendix in the RR. The name of the appendix is (ACCA#Excel) and the specific tab name is (CompanyNameRatio) so what should be used? The excel appendix name with my acca number of the tab specifically?
I wrote (Appendix A) but I don’t have anything labeled as it so I just read above by some students it shouldn’t be like that. So any advise.
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