Ethics Approval Application: Financial Ratios in Accounting

This document presents an ethics approval application focusing on the use of financial ratios in corporate accounting to address financial performance. It includes student and supervisor details, proposed research details with a summary of the methodology involving descriptive and qualitative research, secondary data collection, case study approach, simple random sampling, and statistical data assessment. The ethics checklist addresses participant selection, consent, risks, and confidentiality, ensuring privacy through measures like privacy acts and secure data storage. The researcher retains access to the data, and confidentiality is maintained throughout the investigation. This document also contains brief summary of the theory and different themes/findings in four articles.

Application for Ethics Approval
Student Details
Name :
Student Number :
Email :
Subject (Code/Name) :
Supervisor Details
Name :
Email :
Proposed Research Details :
Topic: Use of Financial Ratios in Corporate Accounting to address the Financial Performance
Summary of the proposed research project, including brief description of methodology (bullet
points where applicable)
 Descriptive research will be chosen by researcher to explain the research concern
in-depth
 Qualitative research would be used as it is relied on the descriptive research
design
 Secondary data collection tool will be used to obtain the constant and appropriate
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results
 A case study will be used to evaluate the specific research issue within the limit of
firm
 Simple random sampling will be used by a researcher where participants would
be selected on random basis to avoid the biases from research
 Statistical data assessment technique would be practiced to assess the data in a
methodical way
Ethics Checlist (Participants)
How do you propose to select your participants ?
With respect to probability sampling, researcher will use simple random sampling where
sample would be selected randomly from high amount of population. This tool enables
an investigator to gather the reliable data and produces outcome with no biases.
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)
No
Are in a position of power over participants ? (Yes/No), if yes, describe any ethical
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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 research may face the ethical issue regarding violation of copyright act, plagiarism,
and data manipulation in using secondary data. These concerns might be ignored by
researcher by providing the full credit to authors with in-text citation in each paragraph
of investigation. Further, it may face confidentiality issue in primary data collection
methods. It may secure by using privacy guard and IT system to lock the confidential
data.
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 private information of
participants that helps to keep 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
I will not share the confidential data with anyone during and after investigation
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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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