Purpose of Assignment 

This is the first part of the three-part signature assignment. The purpose of this assignment is to help students aggregate all the topics learned in Weeks 1 and 2 and apply to a problem or an opportunity at their company or any company with which they are familiar. 

Assignment Steps

Identify a business problem or opportunity at an Accounting company where you  are familiar. This will be a business problem that you will use for the individual assignments in Weeks 3 to 5. It should be a problem/opportunity for which gathering and analyzing some type of data would help you understand the problem/opportunity better. 

Identify a research variable within the problem/opportunity that could be measured by data collection.

Consider methods for collecting a suitable sample of either qualitative or quantitative data for the variable.

Develop an outline to describe a company, problem, and variable.

Include in your submission:

• Name of Company:
• What the company does, industry and type:
• Problem at that company.
• Why the problem is important.
• One research variable from that problem that helps us to understand or resolve the problem:
• The method(s) you would use for collecting a suitable sample for the variable (Note: do not actually collect any data).
• How you will verify if the data collected would be valid and reliable data (Note: do not actually collect any data).