Accounting and Finance
Aims
The Management Accounting Research Group (MARG) aims to foster and support research output that contributes to an enhancement of knowledge and understanding of the technical, contextual, behavioural and ethical role played by management accounting in the modern economy.
The beneficiaries of this approach are seen to be academic colleagues, practitioners, the business and public service community and students of the subject discipline (at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD levels).
Objectives
The aims of MARG will be fulfilled through the following objectives:
- Establish a research profile and portfolio that meets the needs of the academic, business, public service, practitioner and student communities. (This will be informed by research funding opportunities.)
- Develop the research skills and capabilities of its members through collaborative research and regular meetings. This provides a support framework for members throughout the various stages of the 'research cycle':
- Research funding opportunities
- Research application and bid preparation
- Ethical, methodological and theoretical development
- Preparation of conference papers, working papers and journal, KT reports and other text base submissions
- Encourage research-led teaching in all its various forms:
- Pedagogic research aimed at improving the dissemination of knowledge and the enhancement of understanding for the various elements that comprise the student/learner community
- Enhancement of curriculum - programmes, units (modules) and assessment
- Student learning via PhD, dissertation & project outputs and WBL and PBL opportunities
- Utilisation of invited guest speakers
- The development of a 'One Stop Shop' web site for members, academic colleagues and students to access a variety of learning opportunities. (The website will act as a 'Kitemark' gate way to learning resources and materials.)