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Accounting Standards for Private Companies

Financial Institutions

September 01, 2011
by Lee Christensen, CPA

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It has been debated for decades: Do we need separate accounting standards for private companies?A common complaint among privately held companies is that the accounting standards under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are the same for them as they are for the largest of public companies even though the needs of the financial statement users may be very different.


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