The scandals with giant firms, increase in the disagreements sent to the courts and insufficiency of the lawyers to setle these lawsuits cause to arise the profession of forensic accounting. While it is little known in Turkey, forensic accounting recently has become a fast growing field of accounting. Forensic accountants, in addition to helping judges solve the disagreements, take parts in taking precautions for frauds and crimes and setting up the systems with this aim. In this study a general information about forensic accounting profession and about the institution of expert witness a branch of forensic accounting is tried to given.

Nowadays, one of the fundemental issues SME’s are encountering is that their managers and owners do not have the entrepreneurship potential supporting their entrepreneur abilities. Capital ownership and entrepreneurship should not be used at the same meaning. It takes not only having funds to establish an enterprise but also scoring success in investments in order to be called an entrepreneur. In the recent years entrepreneurship has been taking the attentions of both academicians and governments as being an important or sometimes the only strategy for local and general development, therefore there is a large volume of either theoritical or applied studies as to entrepreneurship in international literature. In this paper, based on a field work which was conducted in Bandırma – a district of Balıkesir Province - entrepreneurship profile of the entrepreneurs in Bandırma and the issues as to these matters were tried to put for consideration and as a conclusion , in light of the findings of the said field work, it is attempted to offer suggestions as to the determined issues.

The main aim of this study is to analyze the structure of Turkey’s foreign trade by using IIT theory which increasing its importance permanently. IIT levels between Turkey and European Union (EU), extra-EU and the World have been calculated by using 3 and 4 digit level of SITC data and GL indices. It can be asserted that Turkey’s foreign trade structure doesn’t show the characters of IIT in the basis of scale economies and specialization as Turkey’s IIT is approximately 40% of its total trade. The study demonstrates that comparative advantages are the main determinant of Turkey’s foreign trade patterns between 1989 and 2005. Hence, the main result of study is that Turkey and its trading partners are supplementary of each other rather than competitors. In order to become a more global, competitive and stronger market player; Turkey needs to increase its IIT levels. In this way the transfer of new technology and transformation of economic structure will be easy. When scale economies and product differentiation become relatively important, IIT levels will increase. With the additional gains from trade which increased IIT levels offer, Turkey’s economic development and international competitiveness power will rise.

Countries attach importance to tourism education in order to promote tourism activities, thus, gaining power in tourism markets. The most crucial indicator of this is starting up new schools offering tourism education. Recently, there have been some arguments on the contents in institutions operating in the field of tourism education and tourism sector. Discussions framed within the context of vocational and technical education remain aloof from constructing a mutual ground in such developing countries as Turkey. In this study, problems related to tourism education and levels of education were taken into account with respect to contents and methodology. This study aims to contribute to those who are into tourism education and in particular to those involved in tourism education planning.

Today, it is observed that, police organizations are working in a way satisfying expectations risen from social, cultural and economic developments, changes and transformations, which are being experienced rapidly around the world. Thus, it is seen that, today some values stick out in the profession of the police in which communication has a vital importance. Today’s policeman is seen in a way that he expresses himself clearly, approaches to the events from various aspects and has understood well the importance of listening and establishing empathy. Briefly policeman has combined his abilities and experiences with his communication skills. Accordingly, determining emotional intelligence and attitude relating to their profession of police candidates to be employed in the police organization in the future studying in vocational school is very important. It is expected that, if these students have positive attitudes relating to their profession, their positive behaviors and performance in the future will be higher. Also, it is observed that, emotional intelligence, which means knowing own feelings, being able to manage them and perceiving others’ feelings accurately, is very important for the police, who are continuously in contact with people. The objective of this study is to examine the relation between emotional intelligence and attitudes relating to their profession of the police candidates studying in the Police Vocational School. Accordingly, ‘Bar_On EQ’ questionnaire and ‘Attitude Scale relating to the policeman’, developed for determining the factors affecting attitudes and taking measures against negative points after the studies relating to reliability and validity, were completed and employed.

The aim of this study is to show Conditional Heteroskedastic Autoregressive Moving Average (CHARMA) model can be used modeling volatility in emerging markets. Turkish Stock market data is used in the study. Seasonal anomalies, economic crises (1994 crisis, Russia crisis, 2001 crisis) and trading volume change are also considered in the study. The results show that while returns are high on Friday and low on Monday, volatility is high on Monday and in crises periods but it is low in summer time. Trading volume change affects both returns and volatility positively. Results also show that volatility of stock returns in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) depends on interactions between first two lagged deviations from average return.

This research is aimed to measure employees’ organizational socialization level by job satisfaction, organizational commitment, motivation, and organizational resignation dimensions. In that matter, at four and five star rated hotels operating in Ankara, 882 employees have been asked to fill out a questionnaire that addresses the “Organizational Socialization Level of Hotel Employees”. In order to understand the employees' perceptions according to organizational socialization sub-dimensions, frequencies, percentages, and arithmetical averages have been looked into. For all sub-dimensions of organizational socialization process, a t-test has been implemented to find out if employees' perceptions significantly vary according to their gender, and no difference has been discovered.