International Journal of Social and Economic Research
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 3

Audit committee quality On Financial reporting quality In select companies In India

College of Commerce and Business Management, Osmania University, India

Online published on 15 September, 2014.

Abstract

Audit committees have attracted considerable attention from researchers, especially in the aftermath of recent high profile financial reporting scandals, because of the crucial role they play in the financial reporting processes of firms. financial reporting quality as “the precision with which financial reports convey information about the firm's operations, in particular its cash flows, in order to inform equity investors”. Others define financial reporting quality as “the extent to which the financial statements provide true and fair information about the underlying performance and financial position”, (Tang et al. 2008).

Keywords

Audit committees, Financial reporting Introduction