1. Susan is engaged in a research project which innvolves 1000 listed companies. Her research is based on a hypothesis that there is no significant difference betwwen the discretionary accurals of large and small companies. Susan hopes her research will provide insight to all the companies all around the world.

Required

Is Susan using naturalistic or scientific approach. Disclose using atleast 3 reasons for the answer.

2.Hibuscus limited has recently completed its annual stocktake. some employees physically counted the stock and found that there were 5000 items on hand. Based on IFRS, the finance manager decided to use the FIFO method for inventory valuation. The accountant then multiplied the number of inventory items by the unit cost. The unit cost was determined from a computer worksheet.

Required

Disclose how each of the following has been used in the case:

a. Derived measurement

b. Fiat measurement

c.Fundamental measurement