There are three levels of materiality when assessing the impact of events or transactions on financial statements: (1) Material - information that if omitted or misstated could influence decisions of financial statement users; (2) Significant - has a higher threshold than material, and failure to disclose could cause the financial statements to be misleading; (3) Clearly trivial - information that is deemed unnecessary to disclose as it does not materially misstate the financial statements if omitted or misstated.
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3 Levels of Materiality
There are three levels of materiality when assessing the impact of events or transactions on financial statements: (1) Material - information that if omitted or misstated could influence decisions of financial statement users; (2) Significant - has a higher threshold than material, and failure to disclose could cause the financial statements to be misleading; (3) Clearly trivial - information that is deemed unnecessary to disclose as it does not materially misstate the financial statements if omitted or misstated.