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The Audit Committee: Performing Corporate Governance
Laura F. Spira
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Description for The Audit Committee: Performing Corporate Governance
Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCL; KF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Why do we need to understand audit committees? The Cadbury Committee recommended that UK companies should adopt them in response to financial scandals that have stemmed from dubious financial reporting practices. In other countries, similar commissions have made similar recommendations and audit committees are now a common institution. However, many practitioners doubt whether an audit committee really does much to ensure the integrity of a firm's financial statements because, as outsiders, members don't know enough to dig deeply beneath the numbers. The Audit Committee: Performing Corporate Governance argues that such criticism overlooks the ceremonial ... Read more
Why do we need to understand audit committees? The Cadbury Committee recommended that UK companies should adopt them in response to financial scandals that have stemmed from dubious financial reporting practices. In other countries, similar commissions have made similar recommendations and audit committees are now a common institution. However, many practitioners doubt whether an audit committee really does much to ensure the integrity of a firm's financial statements because, as outsiders, members don't know enough to dig deeply beneath the numbers. The Audit Committee: Performing Corporate Governance argues that such criticism overlooks the ceremonial ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
314g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475776423
SKU
V9781475776423
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Audit Committee: Performing Corporate Governance
From the reviews: Anyone, who is interested in audit committees should take to read this book. (European Accounting Review, 12:3, 2003)