A Comparative Analysis of Accounting Education's Effectiveness with the Balanced Scorecard Method: A Case Study of KMU

AbstractThe goals wanted to achieved after the accounting education process, in other words the efficiency in accounting education is required acting in accordance with the plans, politics and strategies which are constituted in the beginning of the process. Analogously it is so important for achieving the efficiency in accouting education that comparison of the point reached in particular terms with the goals wanted to achieve and the evaluation of outputs reached during the process. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) which is one of the performance measurement tools is a technique used for comparing the goals with the activities and evaluating of outputs. In this context the efficiency of accouting courses at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University (KMU), Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. Accounting education divides into four dimensions of the BSC and an questionnaire is applied to the students of department of Business Administration for customer size, internal processes’ size, learning and growing dimensions. The data which acquired from the survey applied to the students who take course for four years and which is related to other dimensions of BSC is examined and interpretted