This course provides a basic knowledge of how accounting information systems function in today’s business environment. The following topics are covered in this course: basics of information systems, transaction processing, analysis of revenue, expenditure, conversion cycles, financial reporting and nanagement reporting systems by the use of IT, database management systems, the REA approach to business process modeling, enterprise resource planning systems, IT controls and applications on computerized accounting and excel spreadsheets.

This course demonstrates how the strategy of the business affect management accounting methods and how cost information can be used in managerial control. The topics of the course are essentials of managerial control, activity based costing and activity based management, pricing strategies such as life cycle costing, target costing, throughput accounting and environmental accounting, master budgets and responsibility accounting, standard costing, flexible budgets and variance analysis, customer profitability analysis and sales variances, transfer pricing and essentials of performance measurement and control for both private and public entities.

This is an introductory course on auditing and assurance. The course covers fundamentals of auditing such as international developments and standards in the area, factors affecting the audit market, potential services those rendered by auditors, stages of audit including accepting the engagement, understanding the entity, risk and materiality assessments, evaluation of internal controls, analytical procedures, substantive testing, selection of evidence, preparation of the audit report and communication.

Ordinary partnership, commercial partnerships, structure of partnerships and audit of partnerships will be handled in the scope of this course.

This course covers definition of fraud, fraud triangle, fraud risks in an organization, supporting practices againts fraud, the use of information technology in fraud examination, forensic accounting examining techniques and other forensic accounting related topics.

This course introduces the methods of financial statement analysis to the students. The topics covered are ratio analysis, common size analysis, comparative analysis, reporting environment, accounting analysis, analyzing financing, investing and operating activities, cash flow, profitability, prospective and credit analysis.

This course covers topics those have not been discussed in introductory and intermediate courses of the program. The topics covered are accounting for business combinations, consolidated financial statements, accounting for joint ventures and associates, disclosure of interests in other entities, segmental reporting, accounting for not-for-profit and public sector entities, accounting for foreign currency transactions, interim financial reporting, accounting for government grants and accounting for financial instruments.

This advanced level taxation course will review previously discussed topics in BA 327, enhance the scope of each and will focus on more complex matters in local and international taxation. The topics covered are advanced issues of personal and corporate income taxation, taxation for corporate restructurings and re-organizations, tax planning, and various aspects of international taxation such as international transfer pricing, double taxation, international shipping and maritime business regime.

This course introduces performance measurement systems those using financial and / or non-financial indicators. Students will learn how to measure performance bu using the economic value-added, balanced scorecard, breakeven analysis, sensitivity analysis, ratios & important KPIs.

This course covers, the evolution of risk management, enterprise risk management approach, fundamental concepts of risk management, goals and strategies in risk management, design and application of risk management systems.

This course introduces OECD’s corporate governance principles to the students. The topics covered are the role of board of directors, corporate governance mechanisms such as financial reporting and external audit, ownership structures, CG ratings and the need for sound governance to avoid corporate scandals.

The topics on the recent developments in accounting and auditing filed will be determined by the students and instructors together. Students will be required to study and present a current topic in the class.

This advanced level managerial accounting course covers relationships between strategy and management accounting, cost estimation, value chain costing, business process reengineering, target costing, measuring and managing cost of quality, cost of capacity, environmental costs, analyzing cost in lean manufacturing environment, measuring and managing shareholder value.

The course covers specific accounting, financial reporting and auditing issues and requirements of banking, agriculture, biological assets, mining, construction and non-profit organizations.

This course consists of two parts. In the first part, students will learn about the ethical rules for accountants, and in the second part they will prepare and present a project on accounting and auditing ethics. Students will be supported by their academic advisors.

Basic tax laws such as the concept of tax, basic principles of taxation, taxation process, Turkish Tax System, income tax, corporate tax, expenditure taxes (VAT, SCT), wealth taxes (inheritance and gift tax and motor vehicle tax), tax exemption and exclusions, tax planning, tax avoidance, tax auditing, tax penalties, remedies for tax disputes, double taxation and prevention, and tax accounting practices.

This course focuses on understanding sources of creative ideas within and outside business organizations, stimulating good quality idea creation, understanding nees of customers and internal processes, harvesting ideas, aligning idea screening to corporate strategy, executing and innovation ideas and terminating unsuccessful projects, evaluating innovation performance and costs. This whole process of innovation that starts with idea creation, is aligned to corporate strategy. Students will learn the concepts and practice innovation management as a team using real life challenges

Business Ethics has been designed as an amply detailed course aiming to alter/improve students' thinking, understanding and application behavior regarding ethics, its impact on a variety of aspects of human individual and social behavior, including indirect effects on humanity and other living beings through manipulation of the environment. To recap, the main aim of the course is to pass on to students the major tracks of ethical thinking, concepts and applications of ethics and what should/could be done to preserve "good" behavior towards fellow human beings and indirectly, through preservation of the environment, towards all living beings.

Lectures, Discussions, Assignments, Practical work, Conflict resolution, Creative solution generation

This course deals with issues about brand and brand management. Brand management process and the factors affecting this process will be examined and discussed based on examples. Students will also work on a competitive brand management simulation game and conduct a semi-structured brand audit.

This course teaches techniques used to make decisions accurately and effectively, individually or in groups, in situations involving many different goals and uncertainty in the business world.

Individual behaviors, communication among individuals, communication in group and between groups that takes place in organizations, conceptual tools for analyzing behaviors, role of management to improve individual, group and organizational performance are some subjects of this course.

This course explains fundamental concepts of digital marketing, discuss the importance of the main elements in the micro-environment in planning digital marketing strategy, summarizes the relevance and success factors of different digital communications channels, and explains stages involved in developing a digital marketing plan. In addition, within the scope of this course, students will develop and present a digital marketing plan for a real-life company.

During the course it is planned to develop an understanding of new venture creation and the critical knowledge needed to manage business once it is formed.

This course will provide a theoretical background on why discrimination and privilege exist and how corporations can become more inclusive in their policies. The main aim of the course is to highlight the subgroups / minorities that exist in every workplace based on factors such as gender, race, ethnicity and national origin and to frame workplace dynamics from the point of view of these groups.

This course is designed as an intermediate accounting course in which the aim is to provide e deeper knowlege of the use of IFRS Framework and preparation of IFRS based financial statements. The topics covered include the basic accounting principles, recording process, IFRS Framework, terms and contents of IFRS based financail statements, detailed analysis of cash and receivables, inventories, property, plant and equipment, intangibles and application of depreciation, impairments, depletion to related assets.

As the second of two intermediate accounting courses, this course is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of current and non-current liabilities, provisions, contingencies, revenue recognition, accounting policy changes and erros analysis, and accounting for pensions, leasing and income taxes.

The course covers main principles, consequences and challenges of sustainable marketing; analyses the environmental and social impacts of marketing activities; discusses the roles of different stakeholders; and evaluates different business cases and marketing practices that incorporate principles of sustainability.

This course discusses the various ways to demonstrate leadership effectively. Traditional approaches will be highlighted, as well as more emerging approaches, such as followership and authentic leadership. With a critical view, validity of theories and beliefs on leadership is questioned. Through a series of activies, awareness of students on leadership and their own leadership skills are developed.

Covers definition, scope and process of marketing research by issues of problem definition, CRM, MDSS, questionnaire design, SPSS, preparing the marketing research report and presentation.

This course will cover the major aspects of international business environment and operations. Foundation concepts of international business, internationalization of firms, and globalization are first discussed. Secondly, cultural, political, legal, and economic environments that influence international business and operations are then elaborated. Thirdly, assessing opportunities and formulating strategies for international business are discussed. Finally, functional and operational aspects of entering and working in international markets are the main topics to be discussed.

These issues compose the course: selecting projects strategically, the role of the projects in the organizations, planning the work activities, project costs and budget, project activity scheduling

Globalization, global marketing environment, global market entry and expansion strategies, strategic elements of competitive advantage, global segmentation, targeting and positioning, global product, price, distribution and promotion strategies are the topics that will be covered in this course.

More and more organizations today face a dynamic and changing environment. This, in turn, is requiring the organizations to adapt. “Change or die!” is the rallying cry among today’s managers worldwide. Change types, processes, resistance to change and overcoming resistance to change, methods of organizational development, challenges and opportunities of the future are the subjects that we will discuss in class.

Competition and quality concepts, principles and implementation of TQM, tools and techniques of TQM, statistics, probability, control charts, reliability are the subjects of the course.

This course will focus on production planning, inventory management and supply chain related topics. The required issues for having an efficient and effective production system will be covered, and for this, the conduct of necessary analyses will be taught to students.

This course aims to provide students with the relevant knowledge about the structure and functioning of retailing sector, members of retail environment, the roles of environmental factors on retail management decision processes and strategic management in retailing.

This course aims to investigate and evaluate the practices in retailing sector regarding customer service management, customer relationship management, improving customer satisfaction and ensuring customer loyalty.

The course deals with the organization theories that attempt to explain the behaviors of organizations. It discusses structural contingency, resource dependence, transaction and agency cost, population ecology, institutionalism, and organizational network theories. It also discusses interpretativist, critical and postmodern organizational perspectives. It attempts to compare and/or integrate these theories along the dimensions of organizational structure, strategy, technology, culture, and environment.

A key challenge for any retailer is inventory management: too much inventory means unnecessary cost; too little increases the risk of losing sales. Finding the optimal inventory levels, minimizing the cost of inventories, recordkeeping, physical inspections and cycle counting, preparing sales reports, rotating inventories, retail shelf management are the basic activities of inventory management in a retail business company that makes the content of the course.

The first part of the course reviews corporate governance and risk management topics and links them to internal controls. Components of internal control, principles of each component and management’s responsibilities related to internal control over financial reporting are all based on COSO Framework. The second part of the course is devoted to internal audit topics such as audit strategy, audit approach, fraud investigation, ethical codes for internal auditors and the stages/components of internal audit field work including planning, interviewing, testing, working papers and reporting.

The course discusses the Turkish business environment in historical and comparative perspective. It specifically involves national business systems approach, and an analysis of historical changes in Turkish business system characteristics such state-business relations, organizational structures and strategies, and managerial elites, and practices. Furthermore, it examines the economic, political, and institutional conditions that shape entrepreneurial behavior and organization of business activities in Turkey.

This course focuses on methods and tools for analysis of data. It covers basics use of a common statistical platform (R), such as essential data handling tasks. Starting off with exploratory data visualization and summarizing methods,, the course proceeds into predictive methods from basic (e.g. linear models) to more complex (data mining methods such as decision trees or association rule analysis). Students develop both theoretical knowledge and hands on skills for translating business problems into data analysis problems, and exploring answers to those questions. The methods covered are overlaid onto an agile problem solving framework to facilitate application to ill-understood problems as well as more straightforward ones.

Applied Administrative Sciences Skills Development course covers field experience with program partnering organizations. This course aims to merge higher education with institutional life. The students who take this course will get work experience by participating in the work life actively while they continue their study. They have an easier transition to the institutional world with work experience. Moreover, when they experience how theoretical knowledge is applied in institutional life, they will be more motivated towards their courses. The students will have the advantage of being a part of the decision-making processes in the business world, taking initiative, and developing business mindsets. They will have the opportunity to find the proper sector and field/department for themselves while studying. The students should work at least 2,5 days in the organization. They are expected to be a part of an ongoing project and will be assigned active roles, which will align with the program outcomes of the department. The Business Faculty determines “Applied Administrative Sciences Skills Development” course’s application requirements, quota, and application dates and available organizations and positions in the relevant semester. Applicants will be evaluated by a commission consisting of faculty members based on the pre-determined criteria. Students Affairs Directorate is expected to assign the BUS 495 Applied Administrative Sciences Skills Development course to the selected students before the start of the relevant academic semester. This course will cover 1 departmental and 2 non-departmental elective courses.