The quasi-Baer-splitting property is extended from self-small torsion free groups to arbitrary self-small abelian groups. The self-small group A has this property i it is almost-faithful as an E-module. This fact is re ected in the structure of A=t(A) as a module over the Walkendomorphism ring of A. A self-small group A is almost E-at and has the quasi-Baer-splitting property i the class of almost A-adstatic modules is closed with respect to submodules and i A is "almost-projective" with respect to the class of almost A-static groups.