Business Growth and Performance and the FinancialReporting Practices of Australian Manufacturing SMEs

Richard G.P. Mcmahon

Journal of Small Business Management, 2001, vol. 39, issue 2, 152-164

Abstract: This article describes an explanatory study of the impact of financial reporting practices upon business growth and performance outcomes amongst small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in manufacturing in Australia. The study is able to establish some statistically significant bivariate associations between the extent and frequency of financial reporting undertaken and certain measures of SME growth and performance. However, the state of financial reporting practices becomes subsumed by other important influences in multivariate analysis. Management is a complex activity affected by a myriad of interacting internal and external factors, and must inevitably be undertaken in an holistic manner in SMEs. Particular practices make a contribution to the whole task without necessarily standing out as all‐embracing solutions to problems generally encountered. Thus, it is argued that improved financial reporting should be realistically viewed as simply part of a broader competence in financial management which, taken together with other functional capabilities, is likely to lead to more effective and efficient management of SMEs and significantly improve their prospects.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1111/1540-627X.00014

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