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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
ACC 4242	CURRENT TOPICS IN ACCOUNTING	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	5

Offered By

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR PINAR EVRIM MANDACI

Offered to

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Course Objective

This course is designed to enhance students core competencies on accounting that are necessary for success in today s complex and changing business environment. The course builds on concepts learned in different accounting courses by requiring research and evaluation of current issues that are essential to use accounting information and develop professionally in a business environment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Use accounting information in order to solve specific problems.
2	Be able to select an appropriate known principle in a new situation, to restructure data in a suitable form, and to apply the principle.
3	Arrange and combine elements, ideas etc. in such a way as to make up a new pattern or structure for certain accounting issues.
4	Make judgements on certain principles, policies or issues by discussing various alternatives.
5	Integrate the different applications of certain accounting issues in order to have a deeper and detailed view of important accounting issues by.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

ACC 2001 - FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Current issues in Financial Accounting
2	Financial Accounting Article Discussions
3	Financial Accounting Cases
4	Current issues in Cost and Managerial Accounting
5	Cost and Managerial Accounting Article Discussions
6	Cost and Managerial Accounting Cases
7	Current issues in Advanced Accounting
8	Advanced Accounting Article Discussions
9	Advanced Accounting Cases
10	Advanced Accounting Cases
11	Presentations
12	Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Beaver, Financial Reporting: An Accounting Revolution, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall: 1998.
2. Keiso, Weygandt, Intermediate Financial Accounting, 13th Edition, Wiley:2010.
3. Watts and Zimmerman, Positive Accounting Theory, Prentice-Hall: 1986
4. Horngren, Datar, Foster, Rajan, Ittner. (2009). Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 13th Eds. New Jersey, Pearson Publishings.
5. Selected articles

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Groups Discussions and case studies
3. Article Discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MT	Midterm
2	TP	TermProject
3	FN	Final
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MT * 0.40 +TP * 0.20 + FN * 0.40
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MT * 0.40 + TP * 0.20 + RST * 0.40

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Class participation and discussions in class will improve understanding of the course topics and will affect grading. According to performance, class participation may either be (+) or (-) effect.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Plagiarism is prohibited.
2. Participation in class is compulsory.
3. All assignments should be submitted on time. Otherwise will not be accepted.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

esra.aslanertik@deu.edu.tr, cagnur.kaytmaz@deu.edu.tr, fatih.dalkilic@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	12	3	36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	10	2	20
Preparation for midterm exam	1	13	13
Preparation for final exam	1	23	23
Preparing assignments	3	5	15
Preparing presentations	1	20	20
Final	1	2	2
Midterm	1	2	2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14	PO.15
LO.1	3	4	4	2	3	4	4	2	2	4	2	3	3	2	4
LO.2	3	4	5	3	3	3	5	2	3	5	2	3	3	2	4
LO.3	3	5	4	4	4	2	3	2	2	4	2	3	3	2	3
LO.4	4	4	4	3	5	3	4	2	3	5	2	2	4	3	4
LO.5	4	4	4	3	3	2	3	2	2	4	2	2	3	2	3

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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