Effects of the audit committee and the fiscal council on earnings quality in Brazil

ABSTRACT This study evaluates the effects of the audit committee and the fiscal council with their different characteristics on earnings quality in Brazil. The proxies of earnings quality used are: relevance of accounting information, timeliness, and conditional conservatism. The sample consists of...

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Main Authors: Vitor Gomes Baioco, José Elias Feres de Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2017-03-01
Series:Revista Contabilidade & Finanças
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-70772017000200229&lng=en&tlng=en