Materiality and Principal – Agent Theory

The article is a discussion to the Libby and Brown’s article: Financial Statement Disaggregation Decisions and Auditors’ Tolerance for Misstatement. The first part of the article describes the original research of the authors, including theoretical base, experiment and its conditions and results of the research. The second part presents the strengths and weaknesses of the article and offers way for future improvement. The last part adopts the results of the research on the Principal – Agent Theory in the assurance services.