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Hello,
When writing Part 2 of RAP about accounting techniques being used and their limitations.
Do we have to reference limitations to books or some secondary source?
Or can we write them ourselves and not reference them?
Please tell. Thanks
HI Everyone
I am doing topic 3
An assessment of the potential impact of the Price cap on the short term lender Wonga.comIn my research I use secondary data only
PART 2 is – Information gathering and accounting / business techniques
My part 2 structure looks at:
Books
Internet
Journals
Financial Statements
Porters Value Chain
Porters 5 ForcesI take each of the above items individually and discusses the advantages and limitations of using each source of data. I do not discuss any of the data gathered just the sources themselves and therefore this section is very generic. Is this what OBU expect in Part 2?
Thank you for your help any guidance is appreciated
An abbreviated version of one paragraph in my Part 2 is:
-My research uses books as a data source
-Books are published and therefore more credible
-Books can be out of date as publishing takes time (limitation)
-Books are chosen by the University librarian therefore good to learn from
-The books are written by recognised scholars therefore credibleIs this what we should put in Part 2?
The example above is basically what I have done for :
Books
Internet
Journals
Financial Statements
Porters Value Chain
Porters 5 ForcesIs this right to just generically discuss advantages and limitations of sources used?
@wiilliams1977 – yes Part 2 tends to be fairly generic and is a discussion of the merits or otherwise of the various sources. If you are struggling with the word count then this is the section to trim as it doesn’t add a great deal of value to your work in terms of analysis. Provided you have considered limitations to a certain extent then you do not need to go overboard – save your word count for Part 3 as that section is far more important. (For my MSc I just talked about specific limitations I had encountered in going my dissertation research and analysis and left it at that and my supervisor considered that to be adequate).
You may need to bung in a paragraph about ethics to ‘tick the box’
@captmario – it very much depends on the statements you are making. If they are entirely what you found through doing your work then they obviously don’t. See the comments I wrote earlier in an answer to ‘How many references have you used’ as that deals to some extent with what needs to be referenced and what doesn’t.
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