Research Title: Impact of Accounting Information System on Organizational

Performance: A Study of SMEs in the UAE

Questions to ask when critiquing a research paper:

1. What are the research questions or hypothesis?
 H1: There should be a positive impact of accounting managers’ knowledge of
accounting information system implementation.
 H2: There should be a positive impact of top management support on
accounting information system implementation.
 H3: There should be a positive impact of accounting information system
implementation on performance management.
 H4: There should be a positive impact of accounting information system
implementation on organizational performance

3. Describe the reliability and validity of all the instruments used.

 5-point Likert scales, ranging from strongly disagree to agree strongly. Self-
administered survey method and emails are used for gathering responses
from the managerial personnel of the firms. This study uses SPSS for
producing the frequency distribution, Cronbach Alfa values and descriptive
statistics of data.

4. What type of research is this?

 Descriptive Statistics

5. How was the data analyzed?

 Regression Analysis

6. What are the major findings?

 To conclude, all the relations are significant with P-value below 0.01.
Based on these estimates, all the relationships are positive and
significantly impacting as per hypothesized relations.

Conclusion: AIS enhances performance management in

an organization. Through AIS, management obtains useful information and uses it in
decision making and strategy building for achieving the organizational goals and
objectives