Research has been conducted on a comparative method. Initial data was collected by questionnaire on the
subject of IFRS in 2008. It was conducted to 217 accountants who were all registered at the Chamber of
Certified Accountants of Istanbul. Second and the main part of this research was conducted on the same target
group in 2013. A questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted to identify associations between
International Financial Reporting Standards and how adequately these standards are fit to the needs of the
Turkish SMEs.
The questionnaire is composed of two sections. The first section of the questionnaire consists of 38 items
measuring the necessity of the application of IFRS. Respondents rated each item on a 5-point Likert type scale
ranging from 1 “not important” to 5 “very important”. The second section of the measurement instrument
composed of seven open ended questions which all intend to find out different aspects related to IFRS and
SMEs. Table 1 shows 45 variables to be measured according to our research model.