@article{2017,title={EVALUATION OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE BY TOPSIS METHODS OF THE COMPANIES PROVIDED TO THE RETAIL TRADE SECTOR IN THE ISTANBUL STOCK MARKET},abstractNode={Over the past human beings have made significant efforts to make the most appropriate decision and today these efforts are unceasingly going on. Therefore, aiming at making decision, variety of methods, ways have been examined to develop. Decision making process, that can be defined as selecting the best among the alternatives classified according to the specific circumstances, is measurement tool with the embodiment multicriteria methods applied for the evaulation of the financial performance of enterprises at the present day. In the study, financial performances of ten Retail Trade companies registered on Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) have been analyzed, with TOPSIS method which one of the Multi Criteria Decision Making Techniques, using company financial statements. The method has been applied using thirteen financial ratios calculated for four periods (between 2011 and 2016) and company performances are evaluated according to the results obtained.},author={Ayşe SOY TEMÜR-- İlyas İlker İŞLER},year={2017},journal={Kesit Akademi}}