The Differences between Primary and Secondary Research
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Please explain the difference between primary research and secondary research. Explain how your proposal on The Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 might be different if you are doing a primary research as opposed to secondary research.
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PRIMARY RESEARCH AND SECONDARY RESEARCH: COMPLIANCE TO THE
SARBANES-OXLEY ACT 2002
Secondary research makes use of data that have been previously collected for some project other than the one at hand. Data may not exactly meet the needs of the researcher because they were collected for another purpose (Zikmund, 2003). Primary data are commonly gathered from books, journals, and other publications in which the articles were previously written by authors. Documents obtained by agencies such as national census are examples of primary data. What is expected is that they were obtained in relation to the specific objectives of the authors at the time that the articles were written and the census was conducted.
In business, the most basic documents that are classified as secondary data are financial statements that include the balance sheet, income statement, and the statement of cash flows. These reflect basic information about the firm's operations that include the ...
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