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 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

Double Materiality Assessment (DMA) has become a central concept in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks, especially under recent regulatory initiatives like the EU Corporate ...