The present study investigated the effect of working capital management component on corporate profitability. A sample of 106 firms listed on Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) for the period of 2003-2013 was used. The secondary data for analysis were taken from Bloomberg's Database. The present study aims to explore the effect of working capital management components on corporate profitability. We observed that there was a negative correlation between gross operating profit and accounts receivables (A/R). We also found that there was a positive correlation between gross operating profit and number of days inventory. But they did not affect the profitability of firms in the study at a significant level.

ÖZModern anlamdaki ilk uygulamaları 40 yıl öncesine dayanan İslami finans, İslamiyet'in getirdiği ilke ve kuralların finansal işlemlere uygulanması olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Temel olarak İslami bankacılık, sigortacılık ve sermaye piyasasından oluşan İslami finans sektörü %10-15'lik yıllık büyüme oranı ile son yıllarda önemli bir gelişme kaydetmiş ve alternatif bir finansal aracılık modeli olarak görülmeye başlanmıştır. Bu model, tüm bileşenleri ile tamamlanmış ve olgunlaşmış sayılamasa da, özellikle günümüzde birçok ülke tarafından yürütülen çalışmalar önümüzdeki yıllarda İslami finans sektöründeki büyümenin devam edeceği ve sektörün daha rekabetçi hale geleceği hakkında fikir vermektedir. İslami finans sektörü, her ne kadar dini sebeplerle ortaya çıkmışsa da İslamiyet dininin mensupları dışındaki yatırımcıların da ilgisini çekmeyi başarmıştır. Bu ilgiden en büyük payı alan hiç kuşkusuz Sukuk olmuştur. İslami finans sisteminin günümüzdeki temel enstrümanı sayılabilen "sukuk", bir varlığa sahip olmayı veya ondan yararlanma hakkını gösteren bir menkul kıymettir. Bu çalışmada öncelikle tüm dünyada İslami Finansın gelişimi ele alınacak daha sonra ise İslami Finans uygulaması olarak Sukuk işlemlerinin çeşitleri ve Türkiye'de ki uygulamalarına yer verilecektir. ANAHTAR KELİMELER İslami Finans, Sukuk, Sukuk Türleri ABSTRACTThe Islamic finance, whose first modern applications based on 40 years before time, is defined as application of the principles and rules of Islam on the financial operations. The Islamic finance sector that comprises of Islamic banking, insurance and capital market, has recorded an important development with a 10-15% rate of growing and has started to be seen as an alternative financial agency model. Even though this model cannot be accepted as completed and matured together with its all components, especially the studies that are being carried on by many countries are giving us idea about that growing on the Islamic finance sector will continue at the forward years and will be more competitive. Islamic finance sector, even though has appeared because of the religious reasons, it has also been able to take the attention of the investors out of the members of Islam religion. Sukuk, with no doubt, has been the one that has taken the biggest share from this interest. "Sukuk" that can be deemed as today's basic instrument of the Islamic financial system is a securities that shows owning to an entity and right of benefiting from that. At this study, primarily, development of the Islamic Finance all ever the world will be handled and then types of the sukuk operations as an Islamic Finance application and its applications at Turkey will be investigated.

Due to the increased social mobility communication and transportation facilities in the world has accelerated compared to previous years, and a new period has begun that more people and cultures have faced to face in more intense ways.These developments in the world has been effective in the emergence of a multicultural character and people begun to have more desire to get to know other cultures. The multicultural nature of society, local, national and international level have engaged in efforts to promote their cultures . In this process importance of public relations has increased because of the development and promotion of tourism. As a result cultural recognition, public relations and more functions related to these issues have been used in tourism industry . Tourism and public relations mutually support and enrich the cultural mediators and both play important roles in intercultural communication which they have become the two bridges.With the expansion and the categorization of tourism industry, a strong competition in the international arena has started. With this regard, reaching (contacting) customers has had a vital role to provide information. Thus, need for public relations practices emerged as cultural mediators which have been providing transitivity.In this article; tourism and public relations impact on the development of intercultural communication and cultural global perspective will be put out.

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