As far as I know, all of the major software programs will allow you to important pdf documents. You can then make selections on the pdf and apply codes to those selections.

Since these programs all have extensive video tutorials, I suggest you visit the relevant websites and find out which ones have the best training and support for your needs.

Based on your question & depiction - generally sounds like it is a quantitative research based on secondary data i.e. annual reports etc.  You can use quantitative data analyses software like SPSS, SAS, AMOS, SmartPLS etc. (beside R) which are menu / graphical based & relatively more user friendly.  You can also use SPSS Text Analytics module etc. (for qualitative analysis) to assist in your quantitative data analyses.

I would rather support David's answer above and go with a qualitative content analysis program such as Atlas.ti or MAXQDA or others (there even are some open source programs, you can find a good overview here). So far, I've only worked intensively with Atlas.ti but I think the other programs provide similar functions. It really takes some time to get into these programs but once you got it, they are indeed a big help and make things much easier and transparent.

For the more quantitative part of your research, Atlas.ti (and other programs probably as well) offers the possibility to export numerical data of your codings, for example to EXCEL. Examples for such numerical data is: how many times did a code/concept occur in which document? How many times did it appear in the same place as another code? etc. You can then use the exported numerical data and feed it into quantitative data analyses software like R, SPSS etc (as suggested by Han) if you want.

http://www.predictiveanalyticstoday.com/top-free-qualitative-data-analysis-software/

Dear Ankur,

Without recommending a single software to address all your needs, I would suggest to split your research focus into single parts in order to obtain meaningful results. There is quite a big spread between fraud detection, annual report narratives and future performance prediction. There are too many other factors influencing all of your topics so that it may prove difficult to establish clear links between them.

Paul

Dear all,

I am using NVivo for qualitative analysis and find this software quite useful. Andreas

Dear Ankur,

You can use AMOS to process your data, because you can have SEM facilities when you encounter antecedents and precedents variables in your studies.

HI,

You may be interested by this paper:

Do fraudulent firms produce abnormal disclosure?

Journal of Corporate Finance April 2017, vol 43,  Pages 58-85

Gerard Hoberg, Craig Lewis

Best regards

first you need to work on conceptual model , it will be great help to decide after creating model as which variables are used and what you want to hypothesize@ankur