Ekonomik ilişkilerin her geçen gün daha da karmaşık bir hal aldığı günümüz dünyasında muhasebe uygulamaları aynı zamanda eğitim ve öğretim boyutu ile de birçok bilimsel çalışma ve toplantılarda ele alınan önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Tamamen kendine özgü mantığı olan muhasebe dersinin istenilen düzeyde öğretilebilmesi başlı başına sistematik bir eğitim ve öğretim süreci gerektirmektedir. Sürecin sonunda; elde edilen çıktıyı değerlendirebilmek için yapılacak ölçme değerlendirme teknikleri; sınav, sözlü, ödev, proje, uygulama, seminer vb yöntemlerden oluşur. Bu bağlamda cevaplandırılması gereken en önemli soru; “değerlendirme anlamında en iyi sonucu hangi yöntem verir?” olacaktır. Bu soru, muhasebe eğitimcilerini olduğu kadar eğitim bilimcilerini de ilgilendirir. Elbette ki bu soruya verilecek tek bir net cevap yoktur. Eğitim metot ve sürecinin nasıl olduğu, hangi yöntemlerin nasıl kullanıldığı ve uygulandığına bağlı olarak ölçme ve değerlendirme yöntemi de farklılıklar gösterebilir. Bu çalışmada “muhasebe eğitiminde ölçme ve değerlendirme” incelenmekte, literatürde yer alan araştırmalar ışığında kuramsal olarak tartışılmaktadır.

Economic relations more and more complicated in today's world, accounting applications received at the same time at education and training, has become a major issue discussed in lots of scientific work and with the size of the meetings. Completely unique logic of accounting courses that require a systematic education and training process in itself can be taught at the desired level. At the end of the process; assessment techniques will be to evaluate the resulting output; exams,oral, homework, project, application, consisting of seminars or other methods. In this context, the most important question which must be answered will be “Which method gives the best result in the terms of evaluaiton?”. This question concerns not only accounting educators but also pedagogs. Of course there is not just one answer for this question. It may be differs from that type of education method and process, how to use which methods and measurement and evaluation methods depending on implemented. In this study “measurement and evaluation in accounting education” is analysed, and included prominent opinions in the light of researchs which located in literatüre.

Burnout syndrome, as a frequently encountered disorder in today's world, has many negative consequences like emotional exhaustion, desensitization and personal failure. To better cope with the burnout, underlying reasons has to be well-defined both for individuals and for different occupational groups. The study presented here, aiming to assess the burnout levels of accounting professionals, and identify the factors that play role in the course of their burnout, has been carried out in 225 individual accountants that serve in the city of Gaziantep. The study revealed that, for accountants who participated in the survey, main parameters of burnout including emotional exhaustion, desensitization and personal failure scored (2.87), (2.37) and (2.31), respectively, according to 5-point Likert scale. Among reasons of burnout, while a statement of "I think I am working too much at the office" reached to highest average score (3.58), "Since I am in this business, I have been ignorant of people" received the lowest score in average (2.21). In conclusion, according to the findings of the study, it has been concluded that burnout levels of accounting professionals is not high.

In our study, we investigated whether the department, grade and having taken accounting ethics courses affect the ethical decisonmaking of first grade and fourth grade students attending Business Administration and Public Finance departments of Akdeniz University. According to our findings, which are in conformity with other studies, women have a stronger ethical judgement, business administration students have more flexible ethical values and the students that have already taken accounting ethics courses have stronger ethical values. Considering the findings of this work and otherstudies, we conclude that it may be helpful if the students were given accounting ethics courses.

With the coming into force of TFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement Standard, the inputs which firms use for determination of fair value measurement are classified into three levels and hierarchy of determination of fair value is constituted. This standard requires increasing level 1 inputs and decreasing level 3 inputs in determination of fair value.

With this study fair value measurement levels (hierarchy) which are used in determination of fair value are described within the scope of TFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement Standard. Additionally, for determining which level of inputs are used in the fair value determination by the firms traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange an inventory study is done. For the purpose of the study, financial statement disclosures of 145 firms which are listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange and classified under the heading of "financial institutions" sector are subjected to content analysis. Content analysis showed that majority of the firms use level 1 input in determination of fair value.

In this competitive environment where economy has been witnessing profound changes for the last couple of years, numerous companies have been forced to operate in different geographical areas and in various lines of work. In this period during which the segment information has proved to be very critical, the need for accounting standards has become much more evident. Based on the Operating Segments Standard, this study aims to review the segment reporting procedures of the companies that are traded on Borsa Istanbul and identify the factors affecting the disclosure of segment information. The disclosure level of the segment information is analyzed by means of the disclosure index formed under the items subject to compulsory disclosure in the Turkish Financial Reporting Standards-8. It has been revealed that nearly 29% of the companies registered in the BIST All Shares have carried out segment reporting procedures. By making use of the multiple linear regression model, this study seeks to identify the characteristics of the companies which disclosed their level of segment information. Being statistically significant, this model has suggested that there is a significant positive correlation between the disclosure level of segment information and the firm size and leverage ratio.

Today, tourism sector makes a significant contribution to gross national product and employment by growing rapidly. In spite of rapid growth, the number of the hotels that pass into other hands in the sector indicates the fact that there are some problems in the sector. One of the issues that should be discussed in solution of these problems is internal control systems. The importance of accounting systems cannot be ignored in the formation of effective internal systems. From this point of view, in this study, a company's accounting system that operates in accommodation business has been analyzed in the terms of objective organization, staff, software- hardware, reports and external factors in the context of forming an effective internal control system. The current state was compared with the information in the literature and the existence of various problems was determined. Suggestions have been made for the solution.

In recent years, fraudulent financial reporting scandals have abused the stake holders’ confidence to company managements. The existence of well- designed internal control system is very important in terms of the success of the business strategies and reliable financial reports. Reliability of financial reporting, effectiveness and efficiency of business operations, regulatory and other regulations compliance creates the objectives of internal control. In this context, the main objective of the study is to identify the problems and current situation regarding this issue by examining the approach of internal control systems of the SMEs especially which operating in the industrial field. According to the main findings which obtained in this connection, the majority of firms are aware of the benefits of internal control systems whether or not they have well-designed internal control system. Also, the significant relationships between SMEs’ current internal structure and attitudes of SMEs on internal control were found. Although internal control is a system which is designed and sustained by the participation of all managers and other personnel in an organisation, it is seen that responsibility about this subject is given only one department such as accounting-finance. On the other hand, according to the survey it is also observed that most of SME managers are used concepts of internal control and internal audit interchangeably despite being different from each other.

Today in the finance literature, structural capital is one of the three elements of intellectual capital and the Quality Management System is defined in the structural capital. In this study the impact levels of Quality Management System on the intellectual capital of the companies are analyzed. In this context, 10 companies which are quoted as date 09.14.2014 in the Istanbul Stock Exchange “construction & public works” sector are analyzed. As a result, the inference that investors of the companies are sensitive to practice of Quality Management System may be concluded.