In apparent response to Chairman Levitt's speech, on August 13, 1999, the SEC accounting staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 99 (SAB 99), which addresses materiality in the preparation of financial statements.
Author: Grote, George. DARIUS THE GREAT, king of Persia in 522-486 BC, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty, who was noted for his administrative genius and for his great building projects.
Darius the Mede is not to be confused with the later Pers. monarch, Darius I Hystaspes (521-486 b.c.), for he was of Median extraction (âof the seed of the Medes,â Dan 9:1 KJV), and his fatherâs name was Ahasuerus (the Heb. equivalent of âXerxes,â the name of the son of Darius I. See Esth 1:1).