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Emland · Sep 18, 2007, 11:58 AM

It appears that the number one category of homework/quiz cheats are taking Accounting.

I've come to that conclusion just from the sheer number of blatant cut and paste jobs on the forum in the last few weeks.

Are we to deduce that new workers entering the Accounting field are going to cut corners somewhere else? To say the very least, these students aren't very bright. They don't even try to make it seem like they are stuck on a subject. They just copy their whole quiz and expect us to do it.

Just venting. I did my homework - I don't want to do anyone else's.

~Em

RickJ · Sep 18, 2007, 12:42 PM

Haha, I know how you feel. We'd love to avoid that crap but before we had a homework help board those types of questions came anyway... so to at least try to keep them in one place, we made the h/w help boards and added the announcement.

Whenever you see copy/pasted questions, it's quite acceptable to reply "please read the announcement on this board".

Emland · Sep 18, 2007, 12:47 PM

Okay RickJ. It just seems like there are more accounting questions than any other type of homework.

RickJ · Sep 18, 2007, 12:48 PM

Indeed. And I'd always thought that A-1 Photography was a Photography course before I came here and saw all of them under accounting :)

nicespringgirl · Sep 18, 2007, 01:14 PM

Accounting is a difficult subject, I was an accounting tutor back in college and accounting is one of my majors as well. I try to help them sometimes on the forum, but if I see it's an obvious hw problem, I would quit helping them. In fact, I have a hard time understand why maths related hw are is hard for american students.(same way in college) I have nothing offensive, but curious about it... It is actually can be an easy subject if certain effort is contributed! If they do the hw, they would be good at it.

Emland · Sep 18, 2007, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by nicespringgirl

If they do the hw, they would be good at it.

That's the key. Most here don't appear to want to do their reading assignments. All the info they need is there.

lou305 · Sep 18, 2007, 01:46 PM

I would like to comment on this, as I am a UK accountancy student studying for the Association of Accounting Technicians qualification and I can understand that people need help but unless people are prepared to do a bit of research, reading around the topic and help themselves then why should you guys help?
I am quite lucky in the fact that I work in an accountants office, as I can ask there, but what happened to asking tutors, or employers or friends on your course??
Maybe Im just lucky that so far I have understood my course.
And I would also like to think that I am trustworthy

Emland · Sep 18, 2007, 01:47 PM

I would be more understanding, lou305, if they were looking for help, but they aren't, they are looking for someone to do their work, IMO.

lou305 · Sep 18, 2007, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by Emland

I would be more understanding, lou305, if they were looking for help, but they aren't, they are looking for someone to do their work, IMO.

Well in that case I quite agree! At the end of the day their "hard" work will pay off when they don't make the grades and get their qualification, so far I have worked my sockies off to get myself through one day a week at college and the rest of the week at work, I also have an exam looming in December, so come on guys pull your boots up because your getting us trainees a bad name!

nervouzpeoples · Dec 9, 2007, 07:19 PM

In our defense- up and coming accountants. I am afraid of looking stupid to others. There is nothing that I won't attempt to solve or even flat out solve Instead of me asking someone to look over my work I find it easier just to ask someone to solve a problem so that I can see if I were right. Then if I still don't understand I will advise of how I came about my answer and ask the right way to get to the right answer. Just an FYI