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C/F/344. Does the existence of Audit Committee as governance mechanism result in better corporate performance or wealth effects for investors?

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2008
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The paper examines the role of the Audit Committee (AC) in corporate governance CG) providing a review of literature on the agency theory, the issues of CG, the scandals related to CG failures, etc. Statistical methods of regression analysis of dependent and independent variables are employed to evaluate AC effectiveness. Conclusions are made about the correlation between AC and CG.

 

KEYWORDS: Audit Committee, corporate governance, statistical analysis,

 
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