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...

This study investigates the role that board structure has on the demand for audit quality in connection with family ownership in a sample of private firms. In addition to this, we also shed light on whether ownership structure and board structure are substitute mechanisms in resolving agency...

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 incessant corporate scandals engulfing the corporate world today calls for great concern, also even the so-called big four recently have had their fair share of this blame too. Against this backdrop, we investigated to investigate the impact of board characteristics on audit quality of...