Abdul Wahid2025-07-302025-07-302016-09https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4072A lot of research has been conducted in foreign countries on research and development, but in Pakistan a much research well not be conducted in the area of R&D actions through discretionary spending decision. Prior research disclosed the R&D expense through firms SFAS NO. 2 Skaife et al, (2013). In this study under the IAS 38 to highlights the firm’s manager allocate the funds for R&D investment through discretionary spending decisions to improve the firm performance, and was investigated to R&D impact of firm profitabilityen-USThesis