Materiality
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Materiality
The importance of an event or information in influencing a company's stock price. Companies must report any material events within one month by filing SEC form 8-K.
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Materiality
The relevance of information that may cause a security's price to increase or decrease. Companies must report material information to the SEC and, by extension to the public, in order to promote transparency and efficiency in the market.
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materiality
see ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES.Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson