external auditor’s expertise to address principal agent problems, it draws attention to the audit committee’s roles, both as a …This paper not only recommends means whereby principal-agent problems could be addressed, but also considers various … ways in which the external auditor and audit committees contribute as corporate governance tools. The impact of bank …

between systemic risk and information asymmetries – hence the justification for greater focus on information channels as well … as disclosure and financial reporting requirements. Audits, which serve as vital signalling mechanisms in capital markets …

between systemic risk and information asymmetries - hence the justification for greater focus on information channels as well … as disclosure and financial reporting requirements. Audits, which serve as vital signalling mechanisms in capital markets …

between systemic risk and information asymmetries - hence the justification for greater focus on information channels as well … as disclosure and financial reporting requirements. Audits, which serve as vital signalling mechanisms in capital markets …

automatically facilitate lower risk taking levels – where there is scope for the abuse of powers. As well as illustrating why … effective corporate governance systems are essential in facilitating high levels of monitoring, accountability and disclosure …

-year loss and are run by top-echelons who are risk lovers. Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regulation does not attenuate the positive …We examine the impact of corporate risk-taking on firm-level real earnings management. We find that firms with higher … risk-taking engage in higher real earnings management. Our results are robust to a series of robustness tests, including …

that potentially lead to differences in investment policy between family firms and nonfamily firms: family owners' risk … investment and idiosyncratic risk for families with more real options (i.e., investment opportunities). Our robustness tests …