This explains what materiality means in an audit and why it matters for financial decision-making. The key takeaway is that materiality guides auditors in focusing on misstatements that truly ...

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) standards have joined the climate-disclosure reporting frameworks that take a financial materiality-led approach. While the ISSB standards seek ...

Determining materiality has long been one of the most difficult exercises in auditing and financial reporting. The challenge can become even more daunting when quantitative measurements are not ...

Materiality determinations are inherently fact specific. While peer and industry precedent may be instructive, the adopting release emphasizes that “the same incident that affects multiple registrants ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. After two years of drafting and delays, the U.S. Securities ...

Materiality is a term used in accounting and the law, in relation to information disclosed in financial statements that affects decisions made by the people who read them. Deciding whether something ...

In this edition of their Corporate Governance column, discuss a bedrock feature of American securities law and regulation—materiality. They write that the working definition of materiality in the ...