Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia
This thesis comprises three separate but connected essays focussing on multiple board directorships and its impact on financial and non-financial reporting measures of Australian publicly listed firms. Results suggest that financial reporting quality is enhanced with firms having skilled, knowledgea...
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2016
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| author | Tham, Yeut Hong |
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| description | This thesis comprises three separate but connected essays focussing on multiple board directorships and its impact on financial and non-financial reporting measures of Australian publicly listed firms. Results suggest that financial reporting quality is enhanced with firms having skilled, knowledgeable and experienced board of directors resulting from other multiple board directorships. Consequently, the applicability of resource dependency theory between multiple directorships and earnings management, audit fees and CSR disclosures is validated from the results. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-530022017-06-08T03:04:14Z Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia Tham, Yeut Hong This thesis comprises three separate but connected essays focussing on multiple board directorships and its impact on financial and non-financial reporting measures of Australian publicly listed firms. Results suggest that financial reporting quality is enhanced with firms having skilled, knowledgeable and experienced board of directors resulting from other multiple board directorships. Consequently, the applicability of resource dependency theory between multiple directorships and earnings management, audit fees and CSR disclosures is validated from the results. 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53002 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tham, Yeut Hong Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title | Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title_full | Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title_fullStr | Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title_short | Multiple Directorships and Financial and Non-Financial Reporting Measures: Evidence from Australia |
| title_sort | multiple directorships and financial and non-financial reporting measures: evidence from australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53002 |