Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the impact of governance internal mechanisms on audit report lag. The characteristics of governance used in this study are selected by looking at recent literature review. Design/methodology/approach: Governance internal mechanisms...

In this paper, we examine the impact of directors' board on external audit quality over the period 2003-2007 for 96 Belgian listed companies on the Euronext Brussels Stock Exchange. We measure audit quality by using an index for that. To construct the index of audit quality IQAUD, we follow the...

L'objectif de cet article est de comprendre le comportement des sociétés belges en matière de choix d'un auditeur de qualité, en nous basant sur les caractéristiques de leur structure de propriété. La qualité de l'audit externe est approchée par un indice composite multi-items. Sur la...