Graduation Project

FACTOR THAT
INFLUENCE
ACCOUNTING
STUDENT’ PLAGIARISM
Introduction
 2.0. Literature review

2.1. Cheating and plagiarism

2.2. Plagiarism as a problem among accounting students

2.3. Activities that are considered plagiarism

2.4. Factors that may lead student to plagiarize

 Hypothesis
•H01: Lack of awareness and understanding of plagiarism influence
accounting students plagiarism at AUM.
•H02: Accounting students command of English language influence
plagiarism at AUM.
•H03: Time, financial, and parental pressures influence accounting
students plagiarism at AUM.
3.1. Dependent and Independent variable
 Methodology
• 4.1 Data Collection
• 4.1.2. Responses
4.2. Statistical analysis

The statistical analysis is divided into three sections:

1. table of mean, standard deviation, and alpha coefficients

2. testing hypothesis using Pearsons’ correlation coefficients

3. discover whether there is a significant relationship between hypotheses elements using

Pearsons’ correlation coefficients
 5.0. Results /Analysis
5.1. Frequencies
5.2. Reliability
5.3. Hypothesis testing
5.4. Correlations
Discussion & Conclusion
(Recommendation)
 Conclusion
1. Female students plagiarize more than male students which is a difference from the previous researches
results that was “male students are more likely to engage in plagiarism”

2. Students that are at their first year till third year engage in plagiarism more than students at their last year
(fourth year)

3. Students that have poor performance are more likely to plagiarize than students that have better
performance range between good to excellent

4. All of factors that was suggested in the hypothesis was found to be related to plagiarism.
• Lack of awareness and understanding of plagiarism
• English language
• pressure
 Recommendation

• First, academic staff during different courses that they teach to students
may motivate students’ ethical behavior and values Forensic accountants
• Seconds, some students find it hard at beginning to integrate in their
educational life and some other students would find it hard to maintain
good work as the requirements change from first year till graduate year
so academic staff may help to create encouraging environment that help
students to be more integrated into their educational life Increase
• Third, according to lack of command of English language, the university
may do additional English language courses for students that have a
belief that they are in need
 Recommendation

• Fourth, in order to increase awareness among students about plagiarism especially at

their first years of academic learning, courses that include project staff may inform the
student what is plagiarism, what is the constitute of the plagiarism
• Lastly, students should not take the pressure as a justification to do academic
misconduct, but they should take it as a challenge that encourage them for
improvement that they will benefit from by having different new skills
Questions ?
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