In recent years furniture sector has become one of the shining sectors in Turkey. The sector suffers from market problems in parallel with the rapid expansion. These problems can be overcome if the potential in neighbor countries’ market are well utilized. Until recent period, Turkish furniture industry was mainly composed of workshop type, small scaled enterprises, most of which were operating with conventional methods. But within the last 15-20 years the numbers of medium and large scaled enterprises are rapidly increasing.

That the sector is one of the fields which do not suffer from foreign trade deficit is really important with regard to the national economy. The main problems of furniture sector are design, financing, marketing, insufficiency of managers, short of qualified employees, lack of international advertising, high raw material prices.

It is primarily important to let companies know about the governmental supports, decrease the expenses, give weight to go foreign retailing and branding, and adjust the expertise fields and exchange rates in order to increase furniture exportation. In the first 9 months of 2008 the furniture export amount was 30 million dollars. Iraq is early in the country list, where half of the total export was carried out. Saudi Arabia, Germany, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and United States of America are the followers. It is a fact that, Turkey takes a small share in the total exportation market. SME’s must incline to exportation. It is definite that selling the manufactured product is one of the fundamental principles of economy as well as manufacturing it. In the recent years shrinkage is experienced due to the decrease of purchasing power, the activity of the sector in the foreign market must e increased.

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• Independent External Auditing,
• Tax Auditing,
• Tax Consultancy,
• Information Technologies (IT) auditing,
• Information Technologies (IT) security,
• Process analyses, performance analyses-active cost control, operation efficiency,
• Financial Advising and Consultancy,
• International and Local public offerings,
• Mergers and Transfers,
• Due Diligence,
• Organizational Management,
• Internal Auditing,
• Providing support services, seminars and trainings related with UFRS, US GAAP and European Union accounting standards,

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