ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ENM2003 | Accounting for Engineers | Fall | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MEHMET EMİN YILDIZ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. YAMAN ÖMER ERZURUMLU |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | 1) Introducing the fundamentals of accounting, 2) Providing information about the relation between the fundamentals of accounting, 3) Explaining how the accounting principles are related to analyzing a company’s financial structure, 4) Explaining the impact of different approaches of accounting methods on the company statements, 5) Providing knowledge of how a company would be analyzed based on the information obtained from financial statements, 6) Introduce students the difference between financial and accounting analysis, 7) Introduce the students to newly developed IFRS principles and their impacts on book keeping. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Describe the fundamentals of accounting principles, II. Construct fundamental accounting statements, III. Forecast based on the accounting statements IV. Define and analyze alternative approaches in preparation of the accounting statements, V. Record business activities with respect to the rules of accounting, VI. Analyze the accounting statements in order to examine the financial structure of the company, VII. Compare how IFRS and US GAAP record for certain financial activities of a company, VIII. Compare and contrast different companies accounting statements with respect to the method used |
Basic Financial Statements, Accounting Cycle, Merchandising Activities, Financial Assets, Inventories and COGS, Plant and Intangible Assets, Liabilities, Stockholder’s Equity, Income and Changes in Retained Earnings, Major Issues in IFRS and US GAAP |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Basic Financial Statement | Read Chapter 1 |
1) | Accrual Accounting and Financial Statements | Read Chapter 4 |
2) | Accounting the language of business | Read Chapter 1 |
3) | Measuring Income to Access Performance | Read Chapter 2 |
4) | Recording Transactions | Read Chapter 3 |
5) | Accrual Accounting and Financial Statements | Read Chapter 4 |
6) | Statement of Cash Flow | Read Chapter 5 |
7) | Midterm | Study the first 5 chapters |
8) | Accounting for Sales | Read Chapter 6 |
9) | Inventories and COGS | Read Chapter 7 |
10) | Inventories and COGS | Read Chapter 7 |
11) | Long-lived Assets | Read Chapter 8 |
12) | Long-lived Assets | Read Chapter 8 |
13) | Liabilities and Interest | Read Chapter 9 |
14) | Stockholder’s Equity | Read Chapter 10 |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Horngren etal, Principles of Accounting 2014, Pearson |
References: | Williams Haka Betner Principles of Accounting |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 1 | % 19 |
Quizzes | 8 | % 8 |
Homework Assignments | 8 | % 19 |
Midterms | 1 | % 14 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Application | 14 | 2 | 28 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 4 | 52 |
Homework Assignments | 8 | 4 | 32 |
Quizzes | 8 | 1 | 8 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Total Workload | 168 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |