Does overlapping membership on audit and compensation committees improve a firm's financial reporting quality?

Review of Accounting and Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-165

  Chandar, Nandini ^a   Chang, Hsihui ^b   Zheng, Xiaochuan ^c  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audit committee; Compensation committee; Financial reporting quality; Overlapping board committees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862093088     PISSN: 14757702     EISSN: 17587700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14757701211228192     Document Type: Review

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