• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.151-156
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• 2021

This paper empirically examines the relationship between one of the major corporate governance attributes; family ownership and the audit committee activity across a sample of 430 publicly traded firms on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2012-2019. Using the Pooled OLS regression, this study finds that family ownership is negatively associated with audit committee activity. This study reported that family ownership is negatively associated with audit committee activity, giving support to the convergence-of-interest hypothesis. Therefore, the existence of family ownership as a monitoring corporate governance mechanism substitutes the audit committee activity as another monitoring mechanism. This study provides empirical evidence on the associations of two internal corporate governance mechanisms, namely; family ownership and audit committee activity in the Saudi context where there is a paucity of research in this area. The findings of this study provide a new understanding regarding the extent to which family ownership impacts the activity of audit committees in manufacturing companies. Similarly, the companies' management, external auditors, bankers, and companies would also benefit from understanding the influential factors of the audit committee activities.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.179-185
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• 2021

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of board of directors' activity on the audit committee's effectiveness score among manufactured listed companies on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period 2015-2017. The final sample of this study consists of 195 firm-year observations that represent manufactured companies listed on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the years 2015-2017. The data of this study in terms of board of directors' meetings, audit committee size and meetings, firm leverage, firm performance, and firm age were hand-collected from the annual reports of the considered companies. The Pooled OLS regression's result indicate that audit committee's effectiveness score is influenced by the board of directors' activity. This result gives support to the agency theory prediction. This result is also consistent with the complementary function of corporate governance mechanisms in which board of directors' activity complements the function of audit committee's effectiveness score. The result of this study should be useful for manufacturing companies, Saudi Stock Exchange, auditors, and regulators which relates to the association between board of directors' activity and audit committee's effectiveness score. This study provides a new empirical evidence on the impact of board activity on the audit committee's effectiveness score in an interesting context which is Saudi Arabia.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.427-436
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• 2020

선행연구는 허핀달 지수로 측정한 국내 감사시장의 집중도가 높아질수록 감사품질이 낮아진다는 것을 보인 바 있다. 본 연구에서는 감사위원회의 특성이 이러한 감사시장의 집중도와 감사품질 간의 관계에 영향을 미치는지를 분석하였다. 감사위원회가 본래의 감독·감시 역할을 제대로 수행한다면, 과점 감사인의 감사를 소홀히 하는 경향이 억제될 것으로 예측되기 때문이다. 2006년부터 2015년까지 감사위원회를 보유한 유가증권시장 상장기업을 대상으로 분석한 결과, 선행연구의 결과와 일관되게 감사시장의 집중도가 상승할수록 감사품질은 하락하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 감사위원회가 감사위원회의 세 가지 세부특성 - 독립성, 재무전문성, 활동성 - 중 재무전문성을 보유한 경우에는 감사시장의 집중도가 증가하더라도 감사품질이 저하되지 않는 것으로 드러났다. 본 연구는 감사위원회의 특성이 감사품질에 영향을 미치는 데 있어 감사시장의 집중도를 고려하였으며, 감사위원회의 특성 또한 세부적으로 구분해서 그 효과를 동시에 살펴보았다는 점에서 공헌점이 있다.