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The document is an application for ethics approval of a research project on accounting ethics and standards related to the failure of Enron Corporation. The proposed research will use qualitative secondary data analysis and a case study approach to assess the issue in a systematic way while minimizing risks and ensuring participant privacy and data security.

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Application For Ethics Approval

The document is an application for ethics approval of a research project on accounting ethics and standards related to the failure of Enron Corporation. The proposed research will use qualitative secondary data analysis and a case study approach to assess the issue in a systematic way while minimizing risks and ensuring participant privacy and data security.

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Application for Ethics Approval

Student Details

Name :

Student Number :

Email :

Subject (Code/Name) :

Supervisor Details

Name :

Email :

Proposed Research Details :

Topic: Accounting Ethics and Standards in failure of Enron Corporation

Summary of the proposed research project, including brief description of methodology (bullet

points where applicable)

 Descriptive research will be selected by an investor for describing the research

issues in depth manner

 Qualitative research will be practiced because it is based on the descriptive

research design

 Secondary data gathering technique will be practiced for obtaining the consistent

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and feasible outcome

 A case study would be practiced for assessing the particular research concern

within the limit of companies

 purposive sampling will be implemented by an investigator where he/she will use

their own judgment in order to select the case study from large amount of

population

 The theme based assessment technique will be used to assess the data in a

systematic way

Ethics Checlist (Participants)

How do you propose to select your participants ?

In context of non-probability sampling, an investigator will implement purposive

sampling where he/she will use their own judgment in order to select the case study from

large amount of population. This technique will enable a researcher to choose the

feasible case study and makes appropriate judgment with minimum time along with the

expenses.

Will your research involve adults who might be identified by you or anyone else reading the

research ? (Yes/No). If yes, how will you obtain their consent ?

No

Does your research involve children under eighteen years old ? (Yes/No)

No

Ethics Checlist (Participants)

Will your research take place in an institution ? (Yes/No)

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No

Are in a position of power over participants ? (Yes/No), if yes, describe any ethical

implication an dhow you deal with them

No

Describe any risk or harm to participants which might be associated with yoru research and

how would you propose to minimese these risks

This investigation may also face the ethical concern with respect to violation of copyright

act, plagiarism, and data manipulation due to using secondary data. These concerns

might be avoided by an investigator in terms of offering the full credit to the

investigators and authors via using in-text citation in each paragraph of research study.

Privacy and Confidentiality

How will you protect the confidentiality and privacy of your participants ?

I will use privacy act through which researcher cannot share the confidential data of

participants that helps to protect the confidentiality and privacy of participants.

Will it be possible to identify participants from published data ? (Yes/No), if yes, is there any

ethical issue which may arise from such identification.

No

Data Collection and Storage

Who will have access to the data ?

Researcher will have access to the data with participants regarding research concern.

How will you store the data in order to ensure its security

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I will not share the confidential data with anyone during and after the research

Note : Ethics Approval Form is not counted toward the word count of the assessment, only

fill in this form if applicable. Include this form as appendices.

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