Diversities Between the Regulations of Turkish Accounting Standard Setters: A Brief History of Turkiye’s Twentieth Century Accounting Standardization Applications

This study examines the evolution of Turkish accounting standards to ascertain the extent of differences in Turkiye’s accounting practices among the different governmental Standard setter’s regulations during the twentieth century. The research results show that the accounting standards had set by the public corporates own self as parallel to economic policies of Turkish Ministry of Finance and money policies of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkiye before the establishment of Turkish Accounting and Auditing Standards Board in 1994. On the other hand in the last two decades of twentieth century the specific standards had set by the Ministry of Finance for tax reporting companies and Capital Markets Board of Turkiye for financial reporting companies have the significant differences.Standardization; Accounting in Turkiye

Higher Education Institutions and the Accounting Education In The Second Half of XIXth Century on the Ottoman Empire

The aim of this study to examine, the higher education institutions’ development and the paid attention on the accounting education in the Ottoman Empire as a consequence of efforts on conforming to the politic and economic developments of the 19th century Westernization movements and transiting to European based double-entry bookkeeping methodology. After summarizing economic and politic annals of the second half of the 19th century, founded-in the term higher education institutions are mentioned. Handout especially dwelled on the subject of accounting education in the higher education. Sample accounting doctrine books used in the education of accounting are given on the final section of the paper.

Accounting Employees’ Behavioral Variables and Firm Performance: Evidence from Turkish Eastern Blacksea Region Companies

The purpose of this paper is to analyze interpersonal relationships of accounting employees affecting the effectiveness of firms’ performance. For this purpose, a structural equation model was adopted from Kang et al. (2004) and was tested. A questionnary was distributed to 187 companies’ accounting departments from Blacksea region of Turkiye which are choosen with arbitrary sampling method from the lists of related region’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry. We find that, although no significant relation between balanced power and confidence, there are significant relationships between conflict and confidence, shared values and confidence, conflict and collaboration, shared values and collaboration, balanced power and collaboration, communication and collaboration. Overall our findings indicate that confidence and collaboration among the accounting department employees have direct influence on the firm performance.Accounting departments; departmental behaviors; firm performance

Diversities Between the Regulations of Turkish Accounting Standard Setters: A Brief History of Turkiye’s Twentieth Century Accounting Standardization Applications

This study examines the evolution of Turkish accounting standards to ascertain the extent of differences in Turkiye’s accounting practices among the different governmental Standard setter’s regulations during the twentieth century. The research results show that the accounting standards had set by the public corporates own self as parallel to economic policies of Turkish Ministry of Finance and money policies of Central Bank of the Republic of Turkiye before the establishment of Turkish Accounting and Auditing Standards Board in 1994. On the other hand in the last two decades of twentieth century the specific standards had set by the Ministry of Finance for tax reporting companies and Capital Markets Board of Turkiye for financial reporting companies have the significant differences

A Factor Analysis to Investigate the Life Value Directions of Certified Public Accountants

This study uses the theory of values which bases on Schwartz (1992)’s 10 core life values to explore the life value directions of 448 Certified Public Accountants from Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Turkiye (TÜRMOB) registered 31 different chambers. A questionnaire is applied to the sample and SPSS 13 packaged software is respectively used in data entrance-analyze and factor analysis (Principle Components Analysis, Equamax Rotation) processes. We find that certified public accountants in Turkiye have 8 life value directions as Conformity, Power, Universalism, Stimulation, Tradition, Belonging, Benevolence and Hedonism.Life values; accounting profession; certified public accountant’s life values in Turkiye

Remembering Thirty-five Years of Social Accounting: A Review of the Literature and the Practice

The purposes of this paper are to briefly review the past thirty-five years of social accounting literature and to examine social accounting practices within the choosen time period. Further, this paper contributes to the limited literature of researchs exploring social accounting literature and literature’s effect on social disclosures and corporate reporting. We use three time periods of Mathews (1997) as 1970-1980,1981-1990, 1991-1995 and adds one more period as 1995-2006 to undertake a general review of the literature within social and enviromental accounting. As concluded, we find that, in spite of growing interest for social accounting practices and literature, there are still major problems related social accounting practices that researchers may undertake

Remembering Thirty-five Years of Social Accounting: A Review of the Literature and the Practice

The purposes of this paper are to briefly review the past thirty-five years of social accounting literature and to examine social accounting practices within the choosen time period. Further, this paper contributes to the limited literature of researchs exploring social accounting literature and literature’s effect on social disclosures and corporate reporting. We use three time periods of Mathews (1997) as 1970-1980,1981-1990, 1991-1995 and adds one more period as 1995-2006 to undertake a general review of the literature within social and enviromental accounting. As concluded, we find that, in spite of growing interest for social accounting practices and literature, there are still major problems related social accounting practices that researchers may undertake

Remembering Thirty-five Years of Social Accounting: A Review of the Literature and the Practice

The purposes of this paper are to briefly review the past thirty-five years of social accounting literature and to examine social accounting practices within the choosen time period. Further, this paper contributes to the limited literature of researchs exploring social accounting literature and literature’s effect on social disclosures and corporate reporting. We use three time periods of Mathews (1997) as 1970-1980,1981-1990, 1991-1995 and adds one more period as 1995-2006 to undertake a general review of the literature within social and enviromental accounting. As concluded, we find that, in spite of growing interest for social accounting practices and literature, there are still major problems related social accounting practices that researchers may undertake.Social accounting; social reporting; environmental accounting

Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Müşavirlerin Yaşam Değeri Yönelimlerini Oluşturan Faktörlerin Belirlenmesi Üzerine Bir Araştırma

This study uses the theory of values which bases on Schwartz (1992)’s 10 core life values to explore the life value directions of 448 Certified Public Accountants from Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Turkiye (TÜRMOB) registered 31 different chambers. A questionnaire is applied to the sample and SPSS 13 packaged software is respectively used in data entrance-analyze and factor analysis (Principle Components Analysis, Equamax Rotation) processes. We find that certified public accountants in Turkiye have 8 life value directions as Conformity, Power, Universalism, Stimulation, Tradition, Belonging, Benevolence and Hedonism

Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Müşavirlerin Yaşam Değeri Yönelimlerini Oluşturan Faktörlerin Belirlenmesi Üzerine Bir Araştırma

This study uses the theory of values which bases on Schwartz (1992)’s 10 core life values to explore the life value directions of 448 Certified Public Accountants from Union of Chambers of Certified Public Accountants of Turkiye (TÜRMOB) registered 31 different chambers. A questionnaire is applied to the sample and SPSS 13 packaged software is respectively used in data entrance-analyze and factor analysis (Principle Components Analysis, Equamax Rotation) processes. We find that certified public accountants in Turkiye have 8 life value directions as Conformity, Power, Universalism, Stimulation, Tradition, Belonging, Benevolence and Hedonism