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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are a set of accounting standards approved by the professional accounting industry.

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GAAP are a combination of authoritative rules set by policy boards and the commonly accepted ways of recording and reporting financial information.

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They can become accepted either as a result of due process or as a result of long term practice.

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Accountants cannot express the opinion that financial statements are "in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" if such information includes any departures from these principles.

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After the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the American Institute of Accountants introduced five broad principles of accounting which have won fairly general acceptance.

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It is relatively unimportant to investors what reporting method is used by a company, so long as they are assured that it is followed consistently every year.

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In 1934, the U.S. Congress created the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), giving it the authority to prescribe the methods used in preparing financial statements.

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In 1938, Congress permitted companies to use a new inventory method, lifo, for income tax purposes.

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In 1939, the AIA recommended the phrasing, "present fairly in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles" in the standard form of the auditor's report.

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The P & L monograph of 1940 promulgated the "matching principle", which places primary emphasis on the correspondence of costs with the revenues that they produce.

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