ICAS and IRC examine the materiality concept in financial and sustainability reporting

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16 May 2024

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa (IRC) have each published documents that discuss the concept of materiality in financial and sustainability reporting.

The ICAS report is titled Materiality assessments in corporate sustainability and financial reporting: Connectivity, practices, processes, and challenges and:

  • explores to what extent and how sustainability and financial reporting are becoming connected and overlapping;
  • examines the processes followed and challenges faced by preparers when adopting the different concepts of materiality;
  • addresses how entities can best identify the relevant material information to be included within both financial and sustainability reporting; and
  • questions whether there is one singular conceptualisation of materiality or multiple interpretations that should be applied across different types of information.

The IRC document is titled FAQ — Explaining Materiality in Corporate Reporting. It includes a high-level explanation of the materiality definitions and terms used in some of the standards and frameworks commonly applied in corporate reporting.

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