Master of Science in Accounting, Auditing, Management control (Doctoral Programme)

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-1

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Question what is distinctive about “science”
2. Identify the different types of management research
3. Distinguish the different philosophical assumptions in management research
4. Discover the different steps of any research process
5. Clarify the sources of low replicability
6. Implement exact and conceptual replications
7. Implement reproducibility by adopting open science methods

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-2

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Characterize the strength and limitations of different models
2. Describe some of the challenges of studying management theories
3. Understand the basic toolkit of non-cooperative game theory and the scope for applications.
4. Identify the main results of agency theory and its applications to organizational design, governance and related issues
5. Survey the scope and stakes of Behavioral Decision Theory for management research
6. Familiarize with major aspects of Social Psychology such as social influence and motivated reasoning

Prerequisite

Library databases; Science definition and the scientific method; Required pre-readings.

 

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-3

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Review and synthetize fundamental themes in a field of research
2. Characterize what makes a good literature review
3. Describe and point out some of the problems with academic literature
4. Critically reflect on your own approach to reading papers and to searching academic literatures
5. Be aware of the different types of reviews and their respective strengths and weaknesses
6. Are able to make informed decisions (regarding approach, scope, structure, etc.) when planning a literature review
7. Translate academic insights into everyday language

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-4

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Recognize main qualitative methods and comprehend major challenges of data collection and analysis
2. Explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative research 
3. Review qualitative research papers
4. Explain what topics are pertinent to study with a qualitative research approach
5. Distinguish how to interpret findings from a qualitative research and how to assess their validity
6. Collect and use qualitative data for exploratory studies

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-5

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Select the appropriate explanatory method in accordance with the research problem and the available data
2. Determine the quality of used multi-item measurement instruments in quantitative research
3. Test a multiple linear regression, to assess whether the results can be trusted, and to analyze them
4. Test a binary logistic regression and analyze the results
5. Develop a mediation and moderation analyses thanks to a regression approach
6. Implement the Johnson-Neyman technique and the floodlight analysis

Code TSMDP-Y1-01-6

ECTS 2.50

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Explain the interest of experimental methods for research in management and business 
2. Survey experimental research papers 
3. Design an experiment

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-AAMC1

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Describe main qualitative methods, their usefulness and limitations
2. Discuss the relations between theoretical backgrounds and qualitative methods
3. Evaluate the relevant qualitative method to study specific financial accounting, auditing and management control issues
4. Explain how each method might apply to their own research topic
5. Identify and apply the codes of conduct and guidelines for scientific rigour, integrity and ethics regarding qualitative methods

Prerequisite

Library databases; science definition and the scientific method; required pre-readings; introduction courses related to accounting, auditing and management control theoretical backgrounds and research design

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-AAMC2

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Describe main quantitative methods and their usefulness and limitations
2. Discuss the relations between theoretical backgrounds and quantitative methods
3. Evaluate the relevant quantitative methods to study specific financial accounting, auditing and management control issues
4. Explain how each method might apply to their own research topic
5. Identify and apply the codes of conduct and guidelines for scientific rigour, integrity and ethics regarding quantitative methods

Prerequisite

Library databases; science definition and the scientific method; required pre-readings; general statistical background; introduction courses related to accounting, auditing and management control theoretical backgrounds and research design

Code TSMDP-Y1-02-AAMC3

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 30.00

Teaching Language English

Pedagogical objectives

Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Articulate and discuss the main theories
2. Analyze how academic insights have developed over time
3. Identify the important issues, strength and limitations of theories, frameworks and models
4. Assess how each theory is used in the accounting, auditing and management control field
5. Develop how they might apply insights from each theory to their own research topic

Prerequisite

Library databases; science definition and the scientific method; required pre-readings

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-AAMC1

ECTS 2.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 6.00

Tutorial Hours 12.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-AAMC2

ECTS 4.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 15.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-AAMC3

ECTS 5.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 20.00

Teaching Language English

Code TSMDP-Y1-03-AAMC4

ECTS 4.00

Delivery mode On campus

Lecture Hours 45.00

Teaching Language English