The audit committee is one of the key elements in the corporate governance structure that helps to control and monitor management in the organization. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of audit committee on organizational performance of listed hotels and travels in Sri Lanka....

The objective of this research is to determine the effect of Board of Commissioners characteristics which is assessed by number or size of, level of independence of, and amount of remuneration received by the Board of Commissioners on earning's quality of Indonesia's State-Owned Enterprises...

The governance reforms of 2003 require corporate boards to establish various committees. This paper studies how these committees are structured and the corresponding impacts. I find that independent directors with long tenures and multiple board seats tend to multitask and sit on more...

We investigate the relation between audit committee (AC, hereafter) quality indices derived from a principal component analysis (PCA) and firm value using a sample of 12,301 firms over the period 2002 to 2012. We also examine the usefulness of the indices in predicting the quality of a firm's...

We examine the association between audit-committee expertise and asymmetric information in the U.S. equity market. Using precise private information extracted from a decomposed bid-ask spread, we find that the existence of an audit committee with financial expertise is negatively associated with...

The effectiveness and efficiency of the internal corporate governance structure depends on different governance bodies within the organization. As crucial parts of good governance they provide constituting, monitoring and controlling tasks concerning the risk management and internal control...

Purpose – this paper aims to offer an empirical evidence about the effect of internal audit and audit committee interaction of enhance the corporate governance on listed Palestinian companies. Design/methodology/approach – a number of questionnaires were sent to chef internal audit...

Aim: The primary role of audit committees is to provide oversight in the financial reporting, audit process, internal controls and in compliance with regulations and laws. The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of board audit committees attributes on firm performance....

This paper examines the association between changes of the audit committee (AC) chair on audit quality and audit fees. We find that changes of the AC chair are negatively associated with audit quality. This finding indicates that firm-specific knowledge and task-related experience have an impact...

The primary aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive measure of corporate reputation and examine the impact of corporate governance on the reputation of listed financial firms in the countries of MENA region. Using a sample of 96 financial companies listed on the stock exchanges of four...