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UNCTAD-ISAR Accounting and Financial Reporting
Guidelines for SMEs
The Exchange – World BankAmman, Jordan
18 June 2013
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UNCTAD-ISAR -Accounting by SMEs
• Outline:• Introduction to UNCTAD-ISAR • Background to the work on Accounting by
SMEs•Main features of the SMEGAs• Follow-up work on the SMEGA Level 3
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Introduction – UNCTAD-ISAR
• ISAR stands for - the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting.
• ECOSOC Resolution 1982/67• To promote reliable and comparable corporate
reporting.
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Introduction – UNCTAD-ISAR continued…
• Serviced by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Held 29 annual sessions so far.• Close to 300 experts from about 90 countries
participate at the annual session of ISAR.
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Importance of the SME Sector
• Employment; • Essential goods and services;• Export; and • Tax base.
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SMEs and Access to Finance
Source: Bank Financing for SMEs Around the World, Policy Research Working Paper 4785, World Bank, November 2008.
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Main obstacles for SME financing
Source: Bank Financing to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia, Policy Research Working Paper 4481, World Bank, January 2008.
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Background – Accounting by SMEs
• UNCTAD-ISAR Seventeenth Session - July 2000.• Growing volume of International Accounting
Standards• Need for simple, understandable and user-
friendly accounting and reporting system designed with SMEs in mind
• UNCTAD-ISAR Consultative Group on Accounting by SMEs
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Categorisation of SMEs
Source: Bank Financing to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Colombia, Policy Research Working Paper 4481, World Bank, January 2008.
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Accounting by SMEs – the approach
• Diversity in categorization of SMEs • Qualitative rather than quantitative
categorization.
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Accounting by SMEs – the approach
Three-tiered approach: • Public securities or significant public
interest;• Significant business enterprises, no public
securities, no significant public interest; and • Smallest entities, owner managed, few
employees.
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Accounting by SMEs – the approach…
Accounting and reporting requirements by category:
• Full set of IFRS;• A condensed set of requirements derived
from IAS; and • Simple accruals-based accounting system.
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Accounting by SMEs – the Guidance
IFRSMore than 3,000 pages
SMEGA Level 2
66 pages
SMEGA Level 3
16 pages
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Follow-up activities – SMEGA Level 3
Updating SMEGA Level 3:• Twenty-third session (October 2006) revision
of SMEGA Level 3 proposed• Completed November 2008• One of the main changes - an optional cash
flow statement .
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Follow-up activities – SMEGA Level 3
• Training for SME owners and employees- in cooperation with Empretec centers
• Research on the current state of accounting and financial reporting needs of SMEs
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For Further Information:
Please visit the ISAR website at:
http://www.unctad.org/isar
Link to ISAR publications on SMEGAs
http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DIAE/ISAR/Financial-Accounting-and-Reporting.aspx
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Accounting and Financial Reporting Guidelines for SMEs
Thank you.