Muhasebe egitiminde ticari belge ogretiminin degerlendirilmesi : on lisans ve lisans programlari uzerine bir arastirma

The objective of this study is to determine the place of commercial documents in accounting education. For this purpose, at first an inventory study was conducted whether there is a lecture about commercial documents within associate’s degree and undergraduate degree programs in state and foundation universities offering accounting education in Turkey. Afterwards, 393 associate’s degree and undergraduate students, who were chosen with convenience sampling method and who are studying in 15 universities were included in the study. An application was used on the students in universities constituting the sample, who at least took and succeeded in fundamental level accounting courses such as general accounting of financial accounting, end of period accounting transactions, inventory balance sheet to measure whether they recognize commercial documents or not and whether they are able to make accounting records based on the commercial documents. In accordance with the results of the research, although the students studying in the universities within the scope of the analysis have knowledge about these documents and know their features, it is determined that they experience difficulties in preparing aforementioned documents and statements and making coverage entries.peer-reviewe