research methods

It is widely accepted that curiosity is one of the most distinguisable characteristics of human nature.To back this statement, it can be deduced that it is hardly impossible for people to stop aquiring knowledge. On a daily basis all of us have to deal with a considerable amount of updatings, ideas and views on different things. At this crucial point the obvious question is, if we are not particularly aware of the new information, we accept everything as fact or we search further to gather evidence in order to understand and prove as true all the information, concepts and opinions? This is what research is aiming at, to pile up different proccess, tools, scientifique procedures, theories and applications, examine, compare, revise and assess the possible outcome in hope of earning knowledge or generate it.According to (Cresswell 2008) research is a procedure that poses an order of steps to be followed so as to accumulate and examine in detail every information and as a consequense achieve the main objective of the research which is to persue knowledge on a particular topic or issue. There are two dominant kinds of carrying out a research qualitative research and quantitative research(Cresswell 2007).Qualitative research is mostly interested in human nature, whereas quantitative research is more scientific.
The main purpose of this project is to introduce and critically evaluate the following research techniques: case studies, questionaires and interviews to all possible readers by giving some examples of applications of these research methods in academic accounting and finance literature. There are many approaches that can be used from researchers to conduct an investigation. Questionaires, interviews and case studies are some of them. In agreement with (Yin 2009), case study as a reserch tool, can be utilised in many different situations, to improve or persue knowledge of a specific group, organizational, social, political and other associated phenomena. The