Arguments associated with the promotion of audit committees in many countries are premised on their potential for alleviating weaknesses in corporate governance. This paper provides a synthesis and evaluation of empirical research on the governance effects associated with audit committees. Given recent policy recommendations in several countries aimed at strengthening these committees, it is im...

Internal audit function (IAF) is a critical component of corporate governance mechanisms, and researchers have argued that internal effectiveness (IAE) utmost importance to serve the purpose. The study attempts contribute better understanding on role committee (AC) characteristics (i.e. AC size, meeting frequency, expertise independence) as driver IAE in public limited companies listed Pakistan...

The study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in Jordan based on the simple random sampling method. The study first hypothesis is...