Materiality Definition

Materiality is the accounting concept that the more significant missing or incorrect information is to an entity, the larger impact the error or omission may have on the decision making of users of the affected financial statements. In other words, information is material to an entity if its omission impacts the financial decisions of users of an entity’s financial statements. 

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