Does Female Directorship on Independent Audit Committees Constrain Earnings Management?

This study examines whether the gender of the directors on fully independent audit committees affects the ability of the committees in constraining earnings management and thus their effectiveness in overseeing the financial reporting process. Using a sample of 525 firm-year observations over the pe...

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Authors: Sun, Jerry (Author) ; Liu, Guoping (Author) ; Lan, George (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2011
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 99, Issue: 3, Pages: 369-382
Further subjects:B Ethics
B earnings man- agement
B Gender
B audit committee director
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