THE ROLE AND IMPORTANCE OF ACCOUNTING-FINANCE KNOWLEDGE AT THE CONTEMPORARY ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING: A COMPARISON OF TRAINER-ENTREPRENEUR

The main objective of entrepreneurship training is to ensure that act entrepreneurs independently by setting up their own firm by giving the basic entrepreneurship and firm skills. One of the competencies that are necessary to sustain successful entrepreneurial work is accounting and finance information. In this study, importance of accounting and finance should be in the context of a good entrepreneurship training has been evaluated by the perspective of academician and entrepreneur and has been tried to identified the level of accounting and finance knowledge that entrepreneur will need to be a successful. In this context; questionnaires has been sent both all academicians who work in public and private universities in Turkey at the field of management and organization and all firm owners who registered to chambers of commerce and industry in Turkey. In this manner, to what extent accounting and finance training in the entrepreneurship training is important has been tried to determine by the perspective of both training providers and participants of this training. As a result, it has been observed that trainers give more importance than entrepreneurs to subject of accounting and finance. In addition participants of both groups have been considering that financial informations are more important than accounting informations.