Creditors, credit rating agencies and owners who are not engaged in business management are the users of
SMEs’ financial statements.
They have dissimilar needs than equity and debt investors who usually are
interested in public limited companies.
SME financial statement users’ center need is to concentrate on shortterm
cash flows, liquidity and solvency.
Conceptually, IFRS have been designed for publicly traded companies.
Applying full IFRS for SMEs was a difficult and costly process (Vasek, 2011).
For that reason, IASB had released IFRS for SMEs in July 2009
Keywords: IFRS for SMEs, international accounting standards, small and medium-sized enterprises