Abstract :
According to the statements from IAI, the agricultural sector of Small and Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) is the most appropriate for the alleviation of poverty and developed
immunity to the nation and the global financial crisis to reduce urbanization. There are
many organizations and groups onion farmers both active and inactive in district of Brebes,
there are 54 agricultural cooperatives are not active on the total of 58 cooperatives. The
purpose of this research is to determine the understanding onion farmers in the district of
Brebes on the recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure in the financial
statements and to determine the suitability of accounting standards on the financial
statements of onion farmers by SAK ETAP.
Law No.17 of 2012 regarding cooperatives explained that cooperatives should be
able to explain the use of funds derived from capital cooperative members through financial
statements. This is a qualitative study. Data is collected by doing field research and library
research then analysed descriptively. Analysis by conducting interviews on the board and
see the entities shoots prosperous financial statements dis ach account created to comply
with the provisions SAK ETAP.
Based on the analysis and discussion of the proposed formulation of the problem is
that the results obtained two prosperous shoots the entities is not understand about aspects
of recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure due to lack of human resources
who know the knowledge of accounting. Level of compliance with the financial statements
SAK ETAP still very low as in the recognition and measurement of fixed assets and
inventory, presentation and disclosure of liabilities and expenses.
Keywords : SAK ETAP, SMEs, Financial Statements, Cooperatives