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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Financial expertise"”.
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The Role of Audit Committee: Analysis of the Influence of Financial Expertise
… of audit committees, and particularly their financial expertise, on firms’ decisions. Specifically, this thesis addresses four sub-objectives, which are developed in four different empirical studies. The first two empirical studies aim to perform a systematic review of the literature on audit …
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Corporate governance and financial performance of asset managers in South Africa
… committee independence, and audit committee financial expertise) on the financial performance of asset management firms in South Africa. The proxy for financial performance is Return on Assets. The study employed the fixed and random effects panel regression techniques to estimate a panel …
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THREE ESSAYS ON MONITORING OF FINANCIAL REPORTING BY CORPORATE DIRECTORS
Recent high-profile financial scandals and increasing instances of restatements focus public attention on the role of audit committees, auditors and CFOs in maintaining the integrity and quality of corporate financial reporting. The U.S. Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in July 2002, …
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Three Essays on the Role of Corporate Governance in Firms' Spending on R&D and Controlling Earnings-Management Practices: The Role of Independent Directors’ Tenure and Network in Controlling Earnings-Management Practices; The Impact of Board Diversity on the Corporate Propensity to R&D Spending; The Association between Directors’ Multiple-Board Sittings, Tenure, Financial Expertise, and R&D Spending
… by analysing a sample of the UK’s listed non-financial firms from 2005 to 2018. It applied panel data analysis (fixed or random effects) techniques and the potential endogeneity issue is controlled by using the two-step system, GMM. Earnings-management research holds that manipulating a firm's …
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Female directors on audit committees and audit quality : evidence from the UK
… literature fails to consider the types of female financial experts on audit committees in the context of audit quality. It is also unclear whether Chief Financial Officer (CFO) experts on audit committees are as effective as public accounting experts in monitoring financial reports. Therefore, …
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The Relationship Between Governance Practices, Audit Quality and Earnings Management: UK Evidence
… to the size, composition of independent members, financial expertise and meeting frequency of boards of directors and audit committee) and audit quality. Secondly, the study investigates the effectiveness of corporate governance characteristics and higher quality auditors in constraining earnings …
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Career patterns of Michigan public school superintendents in districts with an enrollment of 5,000 or more students
… superintendent.6. Human relation skills, financial expertise, and experience are important criteria in seeking employment as a school superintendent.
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An Investigation of the Impact of Corporate Governance on Decision to Expense Employee Stock Options
… value method and provide pro forma disclosure in financial statement footnotes) of employee stock options. The current study examines how corporate governance factors affect such choices. Prior studies (Xie et al. 2003; Klein 2002; Peasnell et al. 2000) have indicated that certain corporate …
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The impact of corporate governance on auditor independence: A study of audit committess in UK listed companies.
… Audit Committees’ activity, but the presence of financial expertise on the committee was not found to be statistically significant in explaining its activity. The thesis also documented evidence that shows that Audit Committee activity is inversely related to managerial ownership of shares in …
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Corporate Governance and Firm Efficiency in The Long-Term Insurance Market in South Africa
The financial crises experienced worldwide have contributed to the rising importance of corporate governance. South Africa is unique in that it has strong corporate governance structures and as a result, it would prove useful to assess the effects of these corporate governance structures on …
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The Eastern Seaboard community-junior college president
… and administrative abilities, business and financial expertise, public relations and political sensitivity, collective bargaining skills, and research and teaching abilities. The public and private male community-junior college presidents were similar: however, the private male college …
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Corporate governance and financial distress prediction in the UK.
Prediction of financial distress has been a topic of much interest to companies and all interested stakeholders (Wanke et al. 2015). Investors, debt holders, creditors, employees, governments, auditors and the society in general, are all affected in one way or the other when firms become …