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Behavioural research is concerned with how: 

• A. 

  Individuals behave when provided with particular items of information

• B. 

  Individuals should behave when provided with particular items of information

• C. 

  Firms behave when provided with particular items of information

• D. 

  Firms should behave when provided with particular items of information

Which of the following is not a branch of behavioural research? 

• A. 

  Auditing processes

• B. 

  Accounting information processing

• C. 

  Accounting standard setting processes

   

• D. 

  All of the given answers are branches of behavioural research.

Theories important to behavioural research are drawn from: 

• A. 

  Behavioural science

• B.

  Behavioural science and psychology

• C. 

  Finance and economics

• D. 

  Finance and behavioural science

Behavioural research in accounting has been used to investigate which of the following decision-making processes? 

• A. 

  The valuation of market shares by individual analysts

• B. 

  The lending decisions of loan officers

• C. 

  The assessment of bankruptcy by bankers or auditors

   

• D. 

  All of the given options are correct.

The primary data source for behavioural research is: 
 

• A. 

  Observation

• B. 

  Archival data

• C. 

  Computer simulations

• D. 

  All of the given options are correct.

The purpose of behavioural research is: 

• A. 

  To comprehend individual decision-making

• B. 

  To improve individual decision-making

•  C. 

  To predict individual decision-making

• D. 

  All of the given options are correct.