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SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99 (SAB 99)

Definition

A 1999 SEC interpretive release stating that the traditional five-percent quantitative threshold for materiality is not a safe harbour and that qualitative factors can make a numerically small misstatement material. Widely applied by auditors and enforcement authorities in the United States.

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