Audit Committee Characteristics and the Free Cash Flow: Testing the Agency and the Transactions Cost Theories [PDF]
According to the agency theory, the existence of effective corporate governance mechanisms (audit committee) can solve the problems associated with agency issues and, as a result, reduces the free cash flow of companies.
Mostafa Abdi +3 more
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Board financial expertise and the capital decisions of US banks [PDF]
We examine whether increasing financial expertise among independent directors facilitates bank capital decisions that promote financial stability. We find US banks with more financial expert independent directors opt for higher target capital ratios and adjust faster their capital structure when they are below the target. We provide evidence suggesting
Gilani, U, Keasey, K, Vallascas, F
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Earnings management is a manager's choice to choose accounting policies or real actions to achieve certain earnings goals. This study aims to examine the effect of the gender financial expertise of the audit committee on earnings management practices ...
Flaviana Agustiani Yuniargo +1 more
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Characteristics of the Chairman of Audit Committee and Timely Financial Reporting [PDF]
Objective: Information is the most important source of decision-making, and its important role in the capital market makes it the most important asset.
Hirad Nazari +2 more
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Managing Financial Expertise [PDF]
We study credit markets in which lenders can invest in financial expertise to reduce the cost of acquiring information about underlying collateral. If the pledgeability of corporate income is low, information acquisition enhances liquidity, but lenders ...
Asano, Koji
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The Investigation of the Association between CEO Tenure and Financial Expertise to Audit Fee [PDF]
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between CEO tenure and financial expertise and audit fees. Using samples of firms (129 firms) in the Tehran Stock Exchange, the results show that, from 2008 to 2015 there’s a positive ...
Mahmood Lari Dasht Bayaz, Javad Oradi
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The Social Value of Financial Expertise [PDF]
I study expertise acquisition in a model of trading under asymmetric information. I propose and implement a method to measure r, the ratio of the marginal social value to the marginal private value of expertise. This can be decomposed into three sufficient statistics: traders’ average profits, the fraction of bad assets among traded assets, and the ...
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BOARD ATTRIBUTES AND QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN NIGERIAN COMPANIES: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE [PDF]
The study x-rays the relationship that board expertise and board independence have on financial reporting quality in Nigeria. The study used data gathered from forty quoted companies for the period 2010- 2015.
Ogbaisi, Sebastine Abhus +2 more
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Effect of CEO Characteristics and Financial Performance of Listed Consumer Goods Firms in Nigeria [PDF]
The study examines the effect of chief executive officers (CEO) Characteristics on the financial performance of listed fast moving consumer goods firms in Nigeria from 2013 to 2022. The study used a sample size of thirteen (13).
Mohammed Kauji, Shehu Usman, Saidu Adamu
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Audit Committee and Audit Quality:An Empirical Analysis Considering Industry Expertise, Legal Expertise and Gender Diversity [PDF]
The extant literature and corporate governance regulations suffer from a tight focus on audit committee (AC) financial expertise as a mean of improving the AC’s oversight role.
Yekini, S. +2 more
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