Necdet Sensoy - Board member, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

This paper, which is of a descriptive- analytic nature, tries to shed some lights on the idea of standard settings for the Islamic banks and financial institutes. In addition, discusses the topic of converging the Islamic finance standards into the conventional ones. for this sake, the paper tries to go over the international experiencesand initiatives in the conventional finance context to provide accounting standards. The results of this research provide insights for finding the best strategy of setting accounting standards for Islamic banks and financial institutes using the conventional standard setters‘ experience.