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 ...

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed a qui tam action against Defendants Pioneer Education, LLC, Pioneer Education Manager, Inc., Jolie Health & Beauty Academy, ...

The concept of materiality in the AICPA Professional Standards has been amended to match the description used by other standard setters and regulators in the United States. Under new standards issued ...

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 ...

Robert L. Hickok, Jay A. Dubow and Erica Hall Dressler of Pepper Hamilton. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently reiterated the long-standing principles that a defendant's alleged ...

A centerpiece of environmental, social and governance reporting and investing is the identification and evaluation of potentially financially material factors for the long-term value creation of a ...