Türk Gemi İnşa Sanayi İşletmelerinde Muhasebe Bilgi Sistemi: Özellikli Muhasebe İşlemleri (Accounting Information System in Turkish Shipbuilding Industry: Special Accounting Applications)

Abstract

This study is considered in an effort to analyze the accounting information system in Turkish shipbuilding industry enterprises objectively accompanied by the elements of the accounting organization which are the document, the book and the chart of accounts and to demonstrate the accounting activities which are in existence under the present circumstances in Turkey. Shipbuilding industry creates a lot of added value such as the transfer and production of new technologies, employment and foreign exchange return. It contributes to national defense needs as well. The construction of ships, dispensable to the world maritime trade, concerns many industrial fields such as steel, machinery manufacturing, electric-electronics, paint and rubber-plastic industry. The financial information is, by all means, developed through the medium of accounting information system in Turkey's shipbuilding industry which is carried out with 87 business enterprises in the aggregate and the current state of this number consists of 66 active shipyards and 21 ship dismantling institutions. With the assistance of the developments in formation and communication technologies, in our period, information is considered power and well-informed is considered powerful, and thus, the importance of information produced by the accounting information system has been increasing constantly. Within the context of this situation which also applies to the shipbuilding industry, it is becoming extremely important for the information produced by the accounting information system to be full, clear, understandable, timely, accurate, unbiased and reliable.

Keywords

• Accounting Information System
• Accounting Organization
• Ship
• Shipbuilding Industry.