GAAP

 Dictionary entry overview: What does GAAP mean? 

• GAAP (noun)
  The noun GAAP has 1 sense:

1. a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures

  Familiarity information: GAAP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAAP (noun)

Meaning:

A collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

GAAP; generally accepted accounting practices

Hypernyms ("GAAP" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Meronyms (members of "GAAP"):

accounting principle; accounting standard (a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions)