Impact of board characteristics, audit committee characteristics and external auditor on financial reporting quality

This study has been conducted to identify the factors that influence financial reporting quality in Malaysia. The study focuses on board characteristics to ensure financial reporting quality. Furthermore, audit committee characteristics have been analyzed to improve financial reporting quality. Alo...

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Impact of board characteristics, audit committee characteristics and external auditor on financial reporting quality
description This study has been conducted to identify the factors that influence financial reporting quality in Malaysia. The study focuses on board characteristics to ensure financial reporting quality. Furthermore, audit committee characteristics have been analyzed to improve financial reporting quality. Along with characteristics of board of directors and characteristics of audit committee, role of Big Four is also analyzed. It is a cross sectional study conducted on companies’ annual report. The study has taken a sample of 150 non-financial listed companies of Bursa Malaysia. The regression analysis is applied to inspect the impact of independent variables over the dependent variable. The findings of the research explain that board characteristics, audit committee characteristics and Big Fours have a significant impact over financial reporting quality. This study contributes by supporting agency theory. It gives a simplified framework by including Big Fours as one of the determination of financial reporting quality.
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spelling my-uum-etd.61792023-03-09T02:43:27Z Impact of board characteristics, audit committee characteristics and external auditor on financial reporting quality 2016 Mutasher, Ali Thamer Alarussi, Ali Salah Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HF5601-5689 Accounting This study has been conducted to identify the factors that influence financial reporting quality in Malaysia. The study focuses on board characteristics to ensure financial reporting quality. Furthermore, audit committee characteristics have been analyzed to improve financial reporting quality. Along with characteristics of board of directors and characteristics of audit committee, role of Big Four is also analyzed. It is a cross sectional study conducted on companies’ annual report. The study has taken a sample of 150 non-financial listed companies of Bursa Malaysia. The regression analysis is applied to inspect the impact of independent variables over the dependent variable. The findings of the research explain that board characteristics, audit committee characteristics and Big Fours have a significant impact over financial reporting quality. This study contributes by supporting agency theory. It gives a simplified framework by including Big Fours as one of the determination of financial reporting quality. 2016 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/6179/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/6179/1/s816873_01.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abbott, L. J., Daugherty, B., Parker, S., & Peters, G. F. (2015). Internal audit quality and financial reporting quality: The joint importance of independence and competence. Journal of Accounting Research, 54(1), 3-40. Abdullah, M., Evans, L., Fraser, I., & Tsalavoutas, I. (2015). IFRS Mandatory disclosures in Malaysia: the influence of family control and the value (ir)relevance of compliance levels. 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