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''Risk management - financial reporting.''
(IASB).  


Immaterial risks are ones that do not require active risk management, because of their small size, low likelihood or both.
An independent, privately-funded accounting standard-setter based in the UK.


It is committed to developing a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global accounting standards.


In financial reporting, immaterial items do not need to be accounted for or disclosed separately.
In addition, it co-operates with national accounting standard-setters to achieve convergence in accounting standards around the world.


Items may be material by size, or material by their nature.
It works within the IFRS Foundation.
 
 
Immaterial items are sometimes known as ''non-material'' items.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Financial reporting]]
* [[Accounting Council]]
* [[Materiality]]
* [[Generally accepted accounting principles]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[IFRS Interpretations Committee]]
* [[International Financial Reporting Standards]]
* [[IFRS Foundation]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Accounting_and_Reporting]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]

Revision as of 14:59, 22 February 2014

(IASB).

An independent, privately-funded accounting standard-setter based in the UK.

It is committed to developing a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global accounting standards.

In addition, it co-operates with national accounting standard-setters to achieve convergence in accounting standards around the world.

It works within the IFRS Foundation.


See also