This study investigates the relationship between odd board structure, board gender diversity, and audit quality in Pakistani firms. The data is collected from Pakistan Stock Exchange's KSE100 index companies from the year 2016 to 2020. The study employs regression models to analyze the impact of...

From the agency theory perspective, the importance of Corporate Governance (CG) is to mitigate the agency conflicts between managers and shareholders. In other words, CG as a mechanism aims to align management's goals with those of the stakeholders, which are to increase firm performance. Since,...

The paper discusses the “interaction factor” between the board of directors and the auditors in light of the Kotak Committee report on corporate governance and the two-year ban on PwC. Quality of auditing has been a relatively late discovery of corporate governance reforms in India. The...

This study investigates the effect of characteristics of board of directors and audit committee strength on audit fees internal control quality. In this study, 84 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange were evaluated from 2014 to 2016. Panel regres sion model and panel logistic regression...