A fairytale-themed video from five senior Bachelor of Science in Accountancy students of Technological Institute of the Philippines (T.I.P.) Manila was adjudged first runner up in the recently concluded lecture competition of the 2nd Accounting Students Research Festival.
Groupmates Alyssa Quiñones, Stefanie Anne Maming, Rica Mae Arienda, Gem Margaret Lucero, and Venice Marie Arroyo submitted an entry titled “Researchtopia,” which tackled the issue of plagiarism and how students can avoid it while working on their academic papers.
Arienda said they are grateful to experience winning as a team in this competition because it helped enhance their communication and presentation skills, which they believe would be really invaluable once they step into the professional world upon graduation.
“We focused on the subject of plagiarism because we believe it is extremely important that we rely on trustworthy, evidence-based, and credible sources whenever we gather data and information, especially online,” said Quiñones, the group leader.
The eight-minute video lecture showed a student, played by Lucero, struggling to write the “Review of Related Literature” chapter of her research project. Coming to her rescue were online fairy godmothers played by the other four members of the team.
Each godmother took her turn guiding the student away from resources that might contain false information. They delivered their tips in the form of “magic potions” to help the student remember some best practices when browsing reference materials published on the internet.
Maming believed they won first runner up because of their unique concept, which the group executed by filming their scenes on their own from a script Quiñones wrote. “One of the judges loved the fact that we tried to be creative about it because accounting is an art,” noted Arroyo.
The Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Committee on Research and Development organized the virtual competition in partnership with PwC Philippines/Isla Lipana & Co. and the National Association of Certified Public Accountants in Education.
PICPA is the national professional accountancy body of the Philippines. It is hosting the 2nd Accounting Research Festival from February 25 to April 29 this year with the theme “PICPA Playing Forward and Sustaining the Potentials of Accounting Students Through Research.”
Arienda said they are grateful to experience winning as a team in this competition because it helped enhance their communication and presentation skills, which they believe would be really invaluable once they step into the professional world upon graduation.
Quiñones also thanked Professor Froilan Labausa, Dean of the College of Business Education at T.I.P. Manila, on behalf of the group for his encouragement and support to accountancy students not only during external competitions but throughout their college life.
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