LITERATURE REVIEW
Conceptual Framework
According to the website of the New York State Society of CPAS, research refers to a planned activity aimed at discovery of new knowledge with the hope of developing new product or service. Although it is quite difficult to define accounting research, a common description is that it is an attempt at finding solutions to problems relevant to accounting knowledge through systematic and methodological ways. In years around 1960's, researches in accounting are more skewed towards normative accounting theory (arguing against current accounting treatments and emphasizing on “how things should be”), and later they moved towards positive accounting theory (focusing on "what is" rather that "what should be").