AUDIT COMMITTEE: SOME EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIA

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...

Research ethics committee audit: differences between committees.

The same research proposal was submitted to 24 district health authority (DHA) research ethics committees in different parts of the country. The objective was to obtain permission for a multi-centre research project. The study of neonatal care in different types of unit (regional, subregional and district), required that four health authorities were approached in each of six widely separated he...

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...

Counterintuitive Evidence from Brazil’s Audit Reports

Rethinking health care commercialization: evidence from Malaysia

BACKGROUND Against the backdrop of systemic inefficiency in the public health care system and the theoretical claims that markets result in performance and efficiency improvement, developing countries' governments have been rapidly commercializing health care delivery. This paper seeks to determine whether commercialization through an expansion in private hospitals has led to performance improv...