Honors Theses
Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Accountancy
First Advisor
Victoria Dickinson
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
As accounting majors in the Sally Barksdale Honors College at Ole Miss, students are offered an honors accounting course that involves weekly class meetings that allow them to satisfy the thesis requirement of the Honors College. Rather than attempting to write a traditional thesis while reporting to the dean during the spring internship, the Honors 420 Alternative Thesis Course allows students to complete twelve different case studies that are ultimately compiled into a final thesis. Each case is completed by using different methods of research and compilation. Research includes analyzing publications in the FASB codification, examining financial statements in cases presented in class, and also searching through the intermediate textbook to discover new ideas and concepts not specifically covered in class. The cases are then compiled using Word and Excel, each requiring a fundamental knowledge of the Microsoft tools. No case uses the exact same incorporations of the methodologies, and thus, a new challenge is presented with each case. Because of the new challenges presented each week, students in the class have an opportunity to develop a deeper knowledge of fundamental concepts in the accounting profession than with a traditional thesis track.
Recommended Citation
Garrett, Austin, "Case Analyses of Accounting Concepts and Methodologies" (2018). Honors Theses. 105.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/105
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