ABSTRAKThis study is aimed at (1) investigating the types of translation errors in abstracts of students final assignments of accounting study program Politeknik Negeri Medan of 2016 until 2017 academic year, and (2) finding out the dominant types of translation errors in the abstracts of students final assignments. The dominants type of grammatical errors was caused by the confusion of verb groups in dealing with the English grammar systems. The dominant type of lexical errors was caused by the failure in choosing appropriate words.
