Materiality
Skill bromso/metapowers/plugins/accounting/skills/materiality
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Determine significance thresholds for reporting and adjustment decisions
SKILL.md
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Materiality
Determine materiality thresholds for "$ARGUMENTS". Establish quantitative and qualitative benchmarks to guide which items require adjustment, disclosure, or further investigation.
Prerequisites
None — utility skill, run anytime. Most effective after Phase 4 (trial balance) or Phase 7 (statements) when financial totals are available.
Process
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Select materiality benchmarks:
- Common quantitative benchmarks:
- 5-10% of pre-tax income (for-profit entities)
- 0.5-1% of total revenue
- 0.5-1% of total assets
- 1-2% of total equity
- Choose the benchmark most relevant to the entity's circumstances
- For nonprofits, consider total expenses or total contributions
- Common quantitative benchmarks:
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Calculate materiality levels:
- Overall materiality — the threshold for the financial statements as a whole
- Performance materiality — a reduced threshold (typically 50-75% of overall) used during testing to allow for undetected misstatements
- Trivial threshold — below this amount, items are clearly inconsequential (typically 5% of overall materiality)
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Apply qualitative factors:
- Even below quantitative thresholds, items may be material if they:
- Involve fraud or illegal acts
- Affect compliance with debt covenants or regulatory requirements
- Change a trend (e.g., turn a profit into a loss)
- Affect management compensation or bonuses
- Involve related-party transactions
- Were previously communicated as significant
- Even below quantitative thresholds, items may be material if they:
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Document materiality decisions:
- Apply thresholds to known misstatements and adjustments
- Recommend which items to adjust and which to pass on
- Aggregate unadjusted items and assess whether the total is material
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Write the artifact to
.metapowers/accounting/$ARGUMENTS/materiality.mdwith sections:- Materiality Calculation — benchmark selected, base amount, and computed thresholds
- Qualitative Factors — additional considerations that could lower thresholds
- Application — list of items evaluated against materiality with adjust/pass recommendation
- Summary of Unadjusted Differences — items passed on and their aggregate effect
Output
The materiality assessment written to .metapowers/accounting/$ARGUMENTS/materiality.md. Present a summary highlighting:
- Overall and performance materiality thresholds
- Number of items evaluated
- Recommendations to adjust vs. pass