مقالة علمية
Audit Committees and COVID-19-Related Disclosure Tone: Evidence from Oman

Badar Alshabibi.


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Audit Committees and COVID-19-Related Disclosure Tone: Evidence from Oman

Badar Alshabibi.

In this study, we content analyzed chairman’s statements to measure the tone of COVID19-related disclosure in Omani listed firms for the year ending 2020. We also examined whether audit committee (AC) characteristics influence disclosure tone. After controlling for corporate board and firm characteristics, our regression analysis showed that two AC characteristics (gender diversity and overlapped directors) positively affect good news information and negatively affect bad news information. It also showed that AC size positively affects bad news information. No evidence was found that the AC independence, meeting frequency, multi-directorships, and financial expertise have an impact on the tone of COVID-19-related disclosures. Our paper contributes to the growing literature by being the first study to examine whether AC characteristics influenced disclosure tone during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results indicate that investors and regulatory bodies should take AC characteristics into account in determining the tone of COVID-19-related disclosure

In this study, we content analyzed chairman’s statements to measure the tone of COVID19-related disclosure in Omani listed firms for the year ending 2020. We also examined whether audit committee (AC) characteristics influence disclosure tone. After controlling for corporate board and firm charac...

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المؤلف : Badar Alshabibi.

مؤلف مشارك : Pria, Shanmuga
Hussainet, Khaled

بيانات النشر : Journal of Risk and Financial Management، 2021مـ.

التصنيف الموضوعي : العلوم التطبيقية|العلوم الطبية .

المواضيع : COVID-19-related disclosure tone .

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المصدر : MDPI : .

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