Özet:

Nowadays, it has a great importance that period income/loss and project costs in construction and contracting Works over years has been determined properly and reflected to that period by the business. Two methods has been used in over years recognition of construction and contracting Works. First method is completed contract methods that has been used in our country for years. The feature of this method is that the complete or the large part of the work must be built in order to determine the profit/loss, revenue and costs of construction work in question. The other method is percentage of completion method being provided by Turkish Accounting Standards 11. This method indicates that in the works being subject to the construction contracts over years, the starting and completing of the work constitutes different periods, and it is based on the periodicity concept. So, according to this method; in accounting, the revenue and cost record in reference to the degree of work completion is distributed within that accounting periods. Therefore, more trustable financial statements have been formed, and thanks to these statements, it is given more exact information to the users. The aim of this article is to examine the accounting records in relation to the construction contracts within the frame of both methods and to emphasize the resultant differences of them.

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