Overview
Accounting Comparability and Financial Statement Fraud: Evidence from European Public Firms
. in the first page (see relevant papers) we address clearly WHAT WE DO, WHY WE DO IT, CONTRIBUTION, AND HOW WE DO IT. Last paragraph addresses the paper's overall organization.
2. literature review/ theoretical framework/hypothesis development (we will revisit and refine or re-organize later)
3. sample and variable definition 3.1. sample definition (include table on sample elimination), 3.2 variable definition (include an appendix), sos filtering.
4. empirical setting. include equations methods etc.
5. discussion
6. robustness
7. conclusions
For now, the focus should be on developing the first half of the thesis, meaning a fully written literature review, research gap, and the research question with the expected contribution. These three parts are the priority at this stage, while the rest (methodology, data, variables) will follow later.