What Materiality Actually Measures
Materiality is treated as a number the auditor calculates. It is in fact a judgement about a reader who is not in the room.
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Materiality is treated as a number the auditor calculates. It is in fact a judgement about a reader who is not in the room.
A tax position built on a circular is borrowed. A position built on the charging provision is owned.
Benchmarking studies answer a question the transfer pricing rules never asked first: what would an independent party have agreed to do?
Approval records that a decision was taken. It does not establish that the decision was fair — and only one of those is what the law is after.
Automation moves where the judgement sits. It does not move who answers for it.
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