Are Small Businesses Falling through the GAAP?

Authors

  • Janet L. Dye Western Carolina University
  • James W. Carland Western Carolina University
  • Jo Ann C. Carland Western Carolina University

Abstract

Professional accountants have long recognized the need for a change in the reporting requirements for small businesses because standard setting agencies focus on large firms and promulgate GAAPs which ignore special problems of small firms. We propose a procedure which may correct the problem  in the United States and which could provide a model for  use in other countries .

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Published

1991-06-04

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (1991)

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Are Small Businesses Falling through the GAAP?. (1991). Journal of Small Business Strategy (archive Only), 2(2), 50-55. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/245