Awareness Level and Educational Efforts of Academicians Relating to the International Financial Reporting Standards: A Research on Accounting Academicians in Konya

Globalization and integration in social, political and economic areas forced the accounting professionals and authorities to design and implement a new set of accounting standards in the last decade of accounting history. International financial reporting standards which are expected to meet the needs of contemporary financial report producers and users are of great interest and subject to an adoption process in many of the countries. Both governmental and non-governmental organizations in Turkey are striving for the completion and adoption of international financial reporting standards as it is the case in most open economies. Major aim of this study is to shed light to the level of accounting academicians' knowledge and recent developments regarding to the adoption process in Konya. A questionnaire is carried on the accounting educators in four universities and the research sample consists of only academicians from different academic levels. Data gathered from the research will be analyzed by means of SPSS software and findings relating to the study will be revealed.