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Assessing Materiality

Materiality in Financial Reporting

ISBN: 978-1-78743-737-1, eISBN: 978-1-78743-736-4

Publication date: 28 November 2017

Abstract

Part V analyzes the details of how to assess materiality. It first tackles qualitative versus quantitative criteria and the role of professional judgment. It then analyzes the selection of quantitative threshold, to expand to the choice of benchmarks. It contrasts the whole financial statements with subaggregates, line items, and components.

Specific sections contrast IASB, FASB, SEC, and other guidance on materiality applied to comparative information, interim reporting, and segment reporting.

The section on estimates mingles complex guidance coming from accounting, auditing, and internal control over financial reporting to explain how the management can improve its assessment of materiality concerning estimates.

After explaining the techniques to move from individual to cumulative misstatements, the part tackles verification ex post, and finally summarizes the intricacies of whether immaterial misstatements are permissible and their consequences.

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Citation

Bellandi, F. (2017), "Assessing Materiality", Materiality in Financial Reporting, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 199-300. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-736-420171012

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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