The AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB) is proposing changes to the definition of materiality in its standards for auditors and attestation engagements to eliminate inconsistencies with the ...

New rules governing when publicly traded companies must report serious cyberattacks to financial regulators center on materiality. Executives disagree on whether the concept is as simple as it seems.

Even a small business makes transactions that are too trivial to bother accounting for. If the debit side of your trial balance is $5 more than the credit side, you might determine that this ...

As we prepare for the replacement of SAS 70 by SSAE 16, articles and vendor whitepapers are flooding the landscape. These documents typically provide only cursory descriptions of the similarities and ...

The concept of materiality in the AICPA Professional Standards has been amended to match the description used by other standard setters and regulators in the United States. Under new standards issued ...

How much information is vital to investors depends a lot on who is defining what information is “material” and what is “immaterial.” As CFO Journal reported on Tuesday, at least half a dozen standard ...

The days of the aspirational, marketing-driven corporate sustainability report are dead. In their place, consumers, investors, and regulators now expect companies to have some serious and verifiable ...