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...

In addition to the well-known facilitators of good corporate governance, such as executive boards (EBs) and audit committees (ACs), recent literature increasingly refers to the benefits of implementing an internal audit function (IAF). This may lead to imminent problems, which are discussed...

This study aims to analyze the influence of audit committee characteristics and intellectual capital performance on intellectual capital disclosure. Characteristics of the audit used in this research are the size of the audit committee, the Number of audit committee meetings, and the financial...

The study examines the effect of audit committees connectedness, measured using network centrality from social network theory, on audit fees. We also test the effect of the same on audit quality and audit timeliness. We find that network centrality measures of audit committees are positively and...

The dynamic of economic changes that influenced the entities has determined a spectacular evolution of internal audit practices, this aspect being also remarked by European specialists. Internal auditor need to face a wider range of challenges especially in the context of corporate governance...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has become a major focal point for a broad array of stakeholders: investors, creditors, regulators, boards of directors, affected communities, customers, the general public, consultants, and academics. This article provides a history and current...

This study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on audit reporting. Whereas the specific purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the number of audit committees, the role of independent (non-executive) board members, institutional ownership, and ownership...

Motivated by agency theory and arguments from linguistic studies, we argue in this paper the internationalization of a firm's audit committee to be associated with weaker firm-level corporate governance. Based on 2,015 publicly traded European firms from 16 countries over 2000-2018, we find the...

Corporate Governance has attracted a great deal of public interest after numerous financial irregularities occurred across the globe such as, Olympus, Satyam, Enron, WorldCom, AIG and so on. Taking cognizance of this, The Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MOIC) of Bahrain issued a Code of...

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