Wednesday, May 04, 2011

In their prime, but do some accounting standards face the chop?


Financial Reporting Standards for Small Entities (FRSSE) apply to businesses that meet at least two of three criteria: Turnover of less than £6.5m net; a balance sheet total under £3.26m; and 50 employees or fewer.

Currently, these businesses are happily following a standard based on the old UK GAAP but this could be about to change. With their larger cousins potentially shifting to International Financial Reporting Standards for SMEs (FRSME), these micro-entities will be the only dinosaurs sticking to a resolutely British way of keeping the books.

See full Article.