... This pitching research letter documents the benefits of using such a tool to inspire and identify future research opportunities and records the author’s experience of communicating with researchers who regularly publish in top-tier accounting and finance journals. As established by Faff (2019...

...Thomas William Aspinall; Adrian Gepp; Geoff Harris; Simone Kelly; Colette Southam; Bruce Vanstone Purpose The pitching research template (PRT) is designed to help pitchers identify the core elements that form the framework of any research project. This paper aims to provide a brief commentary...

... the pitching template and discusses personal reflections on the pitching process. Design/methodology/approach This pitching research letter applies Faff’s pitching template and provides a critical commentary of the pitching process. Findings The team found that Faff’s pitching template is a valuable...

...Lien Duong; Thu Phuong Truong Purpose This paper aims to adopt the pitching research template of Professor Robert Faff for a proposed research project on financial statement comparability and takeover efficiency. Design/methodology/approach This paper starts with a brief background on using...

... Integrated reporting Pitching research Conciseness Textual analysis This letter is a personal recount of completing the Faff (2015) template for a research pitch. The pitch proposes a project on the desirability of report conciseness as promulgated by integrated reporting (IR) from a capital...

.... Design/methodology/approach The author uses the Faff (2015) pitch template to focus the research team’s ideas into a concisely focused research idea. An earlier version of this pitch was presented at the Centre for International Finance and Regulation Pitching Research Symposium on 29 May 2015...

...Bronwyn G. McCredie Purpose This paper aims to provide a reflection on using Faff’s (2016) pitching template to design and present a genuine research pitch. Design/methodology/approach As this is a Pitching Research Letter, there is only a suggested methodology which has not yet been used...

...Searat Ali Purpose The purpose of this pitch research letter (PRL) is to apply the pitching template developed by Faff (2015) to an academic project on boardroom gender diversity and default risk. Design/methodology/approach The pitching template helps the pitcher to identify the core elements...

...Nhut (Nick) Hoang Nguyen; Thu Phuong Truong Purpose This paper aims to apply the pitching research template developed by Faff ( 2015 , 2016) to a research project on regulatory enforcement, financial reporting quality and investment efficiency. Design/methodology/approach The authors begin...

.... (2015), “ A simple template for pitching research ”, Accounting & Finance , Vol. 55 No. 2 , pp. 311 - 336 . Faff , R.W. (2016a), “ Mapping ‘pitching research’ tasks into the RSD7 framework: a pedagogic perspective ”, available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id...