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Materiality

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The threshold below which errors don't matter for reporting purposes. Accounting's official 'close enough.' The threshold is calculated; the arguments about it are not.

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“The discrepancy is under materiality, so the auditors moved on.”

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Immaterial to auditors is not immaterial to your budget. Different games, different rules.

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