Determining overall group materiality and materiality levels for individual components is becoming more of a hot-button issue as the number and complexity of large and international group audits ...

Companies today need to be increasingly clear about their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies, goals, and performance. Conducting a materiality assessment is a formal way of ...

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To determine maximum aggregate component materiality levels, we first use the cumulative binomial distribution to derive the maximum number of components that can be allowed to simultaneously contain ...