An Investigation of the Audit Committee Characteristics Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure

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BARZEGAR GHODRATOLLAH; HASANNATAJ KORDI MOHSEN; Malaki Donya

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Journal: THE IRANIAN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING REVIEW Year:2019 | Volume:26 | Issue:1 Page(s): 19-38

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An Investigation of the Audit Committee Characteristics Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure

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BARZEGAR GHODRATOLLAH | HASANNATAJ KORDI MOHSEN | Malaki Donya | Issue Writer Certificate

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Corporate social responsibilityQ1

Audit committee independenceQ1

Audit committee sizeQ1

Audit committee financial expertiseQ1

Audit Committee gender diversityQ1

Abstract

Objective: The wave of scandals and collapses of large financial institutions and firms in the world leads to create new corporate governance rules, and one of the most important ones is the necessity of an audit committee in the corporate governance structure. On the other hand, the impact of companies on society has also become a global concern and companies face increased pressure from stakeholders to have a broader view of their goals and activities in terms of social and environmental dimensions. In the same vein, this issue has been considered as Corporate social responsibility in most studies in Iran and other countries. However, there are concerns about the quantity and quality of disclosure of Corporate social responsibility. Accordingly, it is necessary that committees such as the audit committee be effective in reducing these concerns as a monitoring mechanism of corporate governance mechanisms, and can serve as a tool of monitoring and improving disclosure of Corporate social responsibility. Accordingly, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Audit Committee Characteristics on disclosure of Corporate social responsibility. Methods: For this purpose, 133 listed companies at the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2013 to 2017 were selected as the sample and multiple regression equations of integrated data method. In addition, a checklist of 17 components and 60 criteria, including three social, economic, and environmental dimensions of social responsibility has been used to measure the disclosure level of social responsibility. Results: Findings of the research show that the characteristics of the audit committee including independence, size, financial expertise, and gender diversity of the members of the audit committee have a positive and significant impact on the disclosure of Corporate social responsibility. Conclusion: Effective audit committee, according to the obtained results, as an effective mechanism, causes improving the credibility of financial and non-financial reporting such as social responsibility disclosure. That is, effective audit committee can improve the level of voluntary disclosure of information like social responsibility disclosure through monitoring the reporting process.

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BARZEGAR, GHODRATOLLAH, HASANNATAJ KORDI, MOHSEN, & Malaki, Donya. (2019). An Investigation of the Audit Committee Characteristics Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure. THE IRANIAN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING REVIEW, 26(1 ), 19-38. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/8164/en

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BARZEGAR GHODRATOLLAH, HASANNATAJ KORDI MOHSEN, Malaki Donya. An Investigation of the Audit Committee Characteristics Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure. THE IRANIAN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING REVIEW[Internet]. 2019;26(1 ):19-38. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/8164/en

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GHODRATOLLAH BARZEGAR, MOHSEN HASANNATAJ KORDI, and Donya Malaki, “An Investigation of the Audit Committee Characteristics Effects on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure,” THE IRANIAN ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING REVIEW, vol. 26, no. 1 , pp. 19–38, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/8164/en

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