Audit Committee Accounting Expert and Earnings Management with “Status” Audit Committee as Moderating Variable

The Informativeness of Reported Earnings and Characteristics of the Audit Committee

An information usefulness approach to decision making points out that only the information is regarded as useful that will bring valuable messages to investors and lead to stock price adjustments. This study examines the effectiveness of audit committees in improving earnings quality and informativeness, particularly among family-owned firms. Earnings informativeness was measured through the re...

Factors Affecting the Internal Audit Effectiveness in the Viewpoint of Audit Committee Members

Objective: Thisresearch has studied the effect of five main factors including competence of internal audit department, size of internal audit department, relationship between internal and external audit, management support for internal audit, and independence of internal audit on the internal audit effectiveness in companies that listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange in 2017. Methods: Data was c...

Audit Committee, Underpricing of Ipos and Accuracy of Management Earnings Forecasts

Audit effort and earnings management

We test the effect of audit effort on earnings management using a unique database of hours worked by auditors on 9,738 audits in Greece between 1994 and 2002. When audit hours are lower, (1) abnormal accruals are more often positive than negative, (2) positive abnormal accruals are larger, and (3) companies are more likely to manage earnings upwards in order to meet or beat the zero earnings be...

Audit committee activity and agency costs

Menon and Williams indicate that many United States (US) over-the-counter (OTC) ®rms which form audit committees appear not to rely on them (cf. Menon, K., Williams, J.D. 1994. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 13(2), 121±139). Reliance on audit committees appears to depend upon board composition, while audit committee activity is associated with ®rm size. In this paper, we compare the U...