Question

Accounting Research & Practices Assignment:

1-What do you understand by Archival Research? Please visit SDL or Google and briefly bring out at least 5 historical events available in the Archives and draw your conclusion on archival research .

2- What do you understand by Cross-sectional data and Time series data

3- Explain Quasi-experimental research.

Answer 1

Archival research is a type of primary research which involves seeking out and extracting evidence from original archival records. ... Some finding aids to archival documents are hosted online, but many more are not, and some records lack any kind of finding aid at all.

1. First European Settlers Arrive in Present-Day Austin, 1730

A group of Spanish friars were the first European settlers to inhabit what is now Austin. They arrived from East Texas July 1730. They established three missions by the Colorado near present-day Barton Springs: La Purísima Concepción, San Francisco de los Neches and San José de los Nazonis. Ultimately, the friars found conditions undesirable and relocat

2. Austin Becomes Capital of the Republic of Texas, 1839

Before Austin became “Austin,” it was Waterloo. The first documented permanent settlement in Waterloo dates back to 1837 near where Shoal Creek and the Colorado River join. In 1837, the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, moved the capital to Houston. Before that, five different cities served as temporary capitals. Though by 1839, Waterloo was renamed Austin and the government of the Republic of Texas arrived to the city by oxcart.

3. Texas Archive War, 1842

In 1842, an innkeeper known as Anglina Eberly noticed archives being removed from Austin. President of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston had ordered the archives be moved back to Houston after Mexican troops invaded nearby. Eberly ran to a six-pound canon was located on Congress Avenue and fired at the General Land Office. Her actions alerted the town of Houston’s order. The archives were returned to the city by Dec. 31, 1842.

4. A German Prince Settles New Braunfels, 1845

Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels officially established New Braunfels. This came as no easy feat as the prince asked to be removed as Commissioner-General just a year earlier. Apparently, he was disillusioned with logistics in relation to organizing a colony. Though Prince Solms-Braunfels may have officially established New Braunfels, Baron Otfried Hans von Meusebach did the real work. He negotiated with local Native American tribes and organized duties for settling the town.

5. University of Texas Becomes First Major University in South to Admit African-Americans as Undergrads, 1959

Race and ethnicity were hot button issues in Texas starting in the ‘50s. Segregation was the first idea to be addressed. Campaigns were waged by local politicians and action groups to desegregate schools and allow equal opportunity. From there, the movement gained momentum as students staged demonstrations to protest segregated movie theaters, lunch counters and restaurants.

2. Cross-sectional data, or a cross section of a study population, in statistics and econometrics is a type of data collected by observing many subjects (such as individuals, firms, countries, or regions) at the same point of time, or without regard to differences in time.

A time series is a series of data points indexed in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data.

3.A quasi-experiment is an empirical study used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention on its target population without random assignment. ... Quasi-experiments are subject to concerns regarding internal validity, because the treatment and control groups may not be comparable at baseline.