Auditing

A is a small owner-managed company employing 20 staff and having a revenue of 300,000 Euro a year. It decided not to appoint external auditors to review its financial statement . Such a decision : A is in line with the requirements of current legislation B will be criticised by governmental authorities My answer was B but the correct answer was A I want to know why the correcr answer answer is A instead of B because i thought that every company should be audited irrespective of the size of the company Please help me with this question