The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of Green Book's implementation through Government Transformation programme in improving financial reporting quality among Malaysian GLCs. Results show an agitation finding whereby no evidence was found to support the hypotheses....

The existing body of literature on audit committees focuses on the effectiveness of audit committees in the outsider model of corporate governance. This research investigation examines audit committees in a setting representing the insider model of corporate governance in a transition economy,...

We examine the associations between the cost of equity capital and two audit committee characteristics: 1) average audit committee members' age; and 2) average number of audit committee members' other directorships. The study is motivated by the recent emphasis on the important role of audit...

The role of the audit committee and the internal audit function in corporate governance has grown in recent years. In that context, the audit literature and practice has underlined the increasingly important role of support and interaction between the audit committee and the internal audit with...

The Study Objectives: This study aims to indicate the role of the Audit Committee in raising the efficiency of the internal control system to combat money laundering through the tasks assigned to evaluate internal control systems, and support the work of internal audit department in considering...

Using information accompanying the audit committee (AC) member voting recommendations of a proxy advisory service, we examine the circumstances that condition when and why ineffective AC members experience subsequent turnover from the board of directors. We broadly classify the sources of...

Regulators do not prohibit auditors from providing tax services to their audit clients, provided these services are preapproved by audit committees. I examine whether the association between auditor-provided tax services and earnings management in tax expense varies with audit committee...

Health care reform and health system financing required to meet population needs and current financial constraints proved to be a major challenge worldwide. In these conditions the role of Public Internal Audit Committee in the public system is extremely important. It is known that the...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) launched the Campaign for Strengthening Corporate Governance of Public Companies in 2007. As part of this pilot program, public firms were required to report to CSRC whether their boards had established audit committees and whether these audit...

CEO power can influence a CEO's incentives to disclose information, in turn affecting the information environment. Audit committees can also affect the information environment, because they serve as the watchdog for financial reporting quality and the audit process. Thus, our research explores...