Czech Point of View of IFRS Adoption into German GAAP – Impact on SME’s Financial Statement Informative Value

The legislated Accounting principles modernizing act, abbreviated BilMoG, caused a fundamental accounting reform in Germany. The most important international accounting standards were implemented into elsewise conservative accounting rules. Due to fact the main user of GAAP in Central Europe is SME, the description and analysis of IFRS's implementation into German GAAP seems to be profitable for SME’s financial statement informative value and also for their competitiveness. Major receiver of SME's financial statement is not the institutional investor but financing bank and other creditor. Continuance of prudence principle after partly IFRS adoption is fixed.