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Choose a benchmark and a percentage to set planning materiality, then derive performance materiality from your risk assessment and a clearly trivial threshold for unadjusted misstatements.
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Overall materiality is the level at which misstatements could influence users' decisions. Performance materiality is set lower — commonly 50% to 75% of overall — to reduce the chance that undetected and uncorrected errors add up to more than overall materiality. The clearly trivial threshold, often 3% to 5% of overall, is the level below which misstatements need not be accumulated.
Profit before tax is the usual benchmark for stable profit-making entities. When profit is volatile, near zero or negative, revenue, total assets or expenses are more meaningful. The percentage ranges shown are rules of thumb used in practice; your methodology and professional judgement, and the entity's circumstances, decide the final figure.
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Yes. If actual results differ significantly from the figures used at planning, ISA 320 requires revising materiality, and consequently the nature, timing and extent of procedures.
It provides a safety margin for misstatements you won't detect. Higher assessed risk, a history of errors or weak controls justify a lower percentage.
