In this edition of their Corporate Governance column, discuss a bedrock feature of American securities law and regulation—materiality. They write that the working definition of materiality in the ...
If the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) created a semantic “heat map” of the most-used terms at its Global Conference on Sustainability and Reporting this week, Materiality would win hands-down.
Over the past almost 15 years covered by the ABA studies, materiality scrapes have morphed from being a somewhat uncommon provision, seen in about 14% of transactions in 2005, to something ...