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 |
BA2223 | Principles of Accounting I | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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 : | Prof. Dr. FİGEN TÜRÜDÜOĞLU |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. FİGEN TÜRÜDÜOĞLU Assoc. Prof. HÜMEYRA ADIGÜZEL Prof. Dr. FATMA ÖZKUL |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | NONE |
Course Objectives: | Accounting principles is a course that introduces students to the fundamentals of financial accounting. Financial accounting is the field of accounting that provides economics and financial information for external users, such as investors and creditors.This course deals mainly with accounting cycle, recording and adjusting process and accounting for merchandising. After completing this course, the students are expected to be able to understand how to use and interpret accounting information. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Can learn to comprehend a new discipline in detail 2. Have a good background in financial matters 3. Have the basic information about financial reporting 4. Learns the effects of financial factors on business performance, in short, to establish cause-effect relationships. 5. Learns the terminology of this discipline in English |
This course includes the topics: Accounting and the Business Environment Recording Business Transactions The Adjusting Process Completing the Accounting Cycle Merchandising Operations Merchandise Inventory |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Orientation • Course Schedule Review • Expectations | |
2) | Accounting and Business Environment Accounting profession, accounting concepts and principles, the accounting equation, using financial statement to evaluate business performance Pop QUIZ 1 | |
3) | Recording Business Transactions The account, the journal and the ledger; debits, credits, and doubleentry accounting; steps of the transaction recording process POP QUIZ 2 | |
4) | Recording Business Transactions Journalizing transactions and preparing the trial balance POP QUIZ 3 | |
5) | The Adjusting Process Accrual accounting versus cash basis accounting, adjusting entries POP QUIZ 4 | |
6) | The Adjusting Process The adjusted trial balance and preparing the statements, relationships among the financial statements POP QUIZ 5 | |
7) | Completing the Accounting Cycle Closing the accounts, postclosing trial balance POP QUIZ 6 | |
8) | Completing the Accounting Cycle Classifying assets and liabilities, the classified balance sheet POP QUIZ 7 HOMEWORK 1 | |
9) | Midterm Exam on MyAccountingLab | |
10) | Merchandising Operations Two types of inventory systems, account for purchase of inventory POP QUIZ 8 | |
11) | Merchandising Operations Account for sale of inventory POP QUIZ 9 | |
12) | Merchandise Inventory Inventory costing methods POP QUIZ 10 | |
13) | Merchandise Inventory Inventory costing methods POP QUIZ 11 | |
14) | Final Review, Problem section HOMEWORK 2 |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Horngren’s Accounting, Nobles, Mattison, Matsumura, Financial Chapters, Pearson, 11th Global Edition Other required readings will be uploaded to students via Itslearning. |
References: | yok |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Quizzes | 11 | % 30 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 70 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 4 |
Quizzes | 14 | 28 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 148 |
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 |