The common set of accounting principles, standards and procedures that companies use to compile their financial statements. GAAP are a combination of authoritative standards (set by policy boards) and simply the commonly accepted ways of recording and reporting accounting information.
Share. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of the larger cities in Western Europe. Many hail the city of Edinburgh as the cultural center of Scotland (though others might make a case for Glasgow).
The Hidden Europe puts 25 countries in Eastern Europe. It includes western Russia, Germanyâs eastern half, and the ex-Yugoslav countries. It also includes three countries that few consider part of traditional Eastern Europe: Finland, Greece, and Turkey.Finland is east of Poland (and north of the Baltic), so geographically it certainly is in Eastern Europe.eologists agree that Eastern Europe ends at the Ural Mountains, which lie hundreds of kilometers east of Moscow. Itâs 5,200 kilometers (3,250 miles) from Lisbon, Portugal to Perm, Russia (a city next to the Urals). The halfway point is WrocÅaw, a Polish city near the German border (see Google map below) .