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The Oxford Brookes University Research and Analysis Project (RAP) is the final
component of the Oxford Brookes University BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting
degree. To reach this stage of the BSc degree you have already successfully
completed at least nine demanding ACCA professional exams.
You have already demonstrated your undergraduate level abilities by passing the
ACCA exams; the RAP provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate the
remaining graduate level attributes necessary for the award of the BSc degree.
Please read the RAP learning outcomes and assessment criteria carefully before you
start your RAP work. This will help you understand what is expected of an ACCA
student who wishes to submit a RAP to Oxford Brookes University.
You should understand that your research work and preparation of the RAP is
covered by the Oxford Brookes University academic regulations. This includes the
University’s regulations on cheating which can be found on this website. If an ACCA
student or member is found guilty of breaching these regulations this could lead to
permanent expulsion from Oxford Brookes University and disciplinary action by
ACCA.
In particular, your submitted RAP must be your own work and your research must
have been undertaken specifically for the RAP. You cannot take a workplace
research or consultancy report and adapt it for your RAP. Neither can you submit a
piece of research work that has previously been submitted to another educational
institution for a different academic award.
The RAP is very different to an ACCA written exam. You have many choices to make
in order to produce a good quality RAP. You have to choose which organisation to
study, what you want to find out, which information sources you will use and how to
present your research findings. Each RAP is different and there is no ‘model’ answer
to your project objectives. Your research findings may depend on how you collect
and analyse information, and your findings may not be wholly definitive. Your
conclusions may be unexpected or not what you might have anticipated before
starting the RAP work. This is the nature of applied research.
In order to produce a successful RAP you have to evaluate and / or analyse
information from a range of sources. This means creating some meaning of what you
have found, or making a judgement or coming to a conclusion. If you only report the
information that you have found or generated, you will not pass the RAP. The ability
to evaluate and / or analyse information is a very important graduate attribute and the
grade that you are awarded for your RAP will be significantly influenced by ‘how well’
you demonstrate your evaluative and / or analytical skills in your RAP.
You may be one of the many ACCA students whose overall class of BSc degree will
not be directly affected by the grade awarded to your RAP (provided you pass).
However, a good performance in the RAP will demonstrate to your family, friends,
colleagues, tutors and employers that you are capable of undertaking good quality
research. If your ACCA average mark puts you in a position where achieving a high
grade in the RAP will gain you a higher class of degree, then you must aim for your
first project submission to be the highest quality research work of which you are

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