As an emerging country, Turkey also needs high-quality financial information to
access international financing resources (Alp & Ustundag, 2009). For this reason,
many changes have taken place in the financial reporting practices of companies in
Turkey. The changes were related not only to listed entities, but also to unlisted and
small ones. For instance, the new Turkish Commercial Code aims at supporting
transparency and quality of accounting information and requires the application of
corporate governance principles by all entities (Albu et al., 2013).