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20/02/2012

Research Proposal: ACCOUNTING, ETHICS & THE LINKS MISSING BETWEEN THEM

Based on a study of Business Research

Term Paper On Research Proposal:

ACCOUNTING, ETHICS & THE LINKS MISSING BETWEEN THEM

Prepared For:
Dr. Mohammed Belal Uddin Assistant Professor Department of Accounting & Information Systems Comilla University

Prepared by:
Group 3 Consisting of: Ummay Taslima (02) Farhana Afroje (07) Saleha Chowdhury (17) Tahmina Mannan (33) Arzuman Fatema (49) Mosharref Husain (51) Department of Accounting & Information Systems (1 st Batch) Comilla University

Date of Submission: February 20, 2012

Page: ii

Comilla University
Comilla February 20, 2012 Dr. Mohammed Belal Uddin Assistant Professor Department of Accounting & Information Systems Comilla University Sir, Here is the term paper on the Research Proposal: ACCOUNTING, ETHICS & THE LINKS MISSING BETWEEN THEM you asked us to prepare on November 14, 2011. As you will see, our term paper pointed to some specific aspects of Accounting, Ethics and the Links Missing between Them according to your specified format Research Proposal. We appreciate having this term paper assigned on us and we are confident that this will satisfy you. Sincerely Yours

Farhana Afroje (On behalf of the Group 3)

Page: iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I take immense pleasure in thanking the Almighty Allah for making us capable of preparing and submitting this term paper. I would like to express our deep sense of gratitude to our course coordinator Dr. Mohammed Belal Uddin for his able guidance and useful suggestions, which helped us in completing the term paper, in time. Needless to mention that Ummay Taslima (02), Saleha Chowdhury (17), Tahmina Mannan (33), Arzuman Fatema (49), and Mosharref Hossain (51); that is all of my group members have made unlimited effort to make this task successful. I want to thank all of them for all their valuable assistance in the term paper. Words are inadequate in offering my thanks to my classmates for


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