“…Several issues have been raised in these publications regarding SMEs" financial reporting, such as the need for exemption from elements of accounting standards, the extent that economic size has an impact on its international exposure, the degree of adoption of international accounting standards, whether SMEs should have their own set of accounting standards, the impact of financial reporting on growth and performance, and the perceptions of practitioners towards IFRS for SMEs (Barker and Noonan, 1996, McMahon, 2001, Joshi and Ramadhan, 2002, Maingot and Zeghal, 2006, Eierle and Haller, 2009, Bunea and Sacarin, 2012.…”