Sociology is a science. In fact, a sociologist has to have more personally challenging scientific standards than the more popularly-known sciences such as physics and chemistry, because it is much more challenging to deal with bias and subjectivity.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, also called GAAP or US GAAP, is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP for short, are the guidelines that dictate how things are reported in the financial statements, what is reported in the body of the financial statements, and what is disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.