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Obeua S Persons
Researcher at College of Business Administration
Publications - 2
Citations - 117
Obeua S Persons is an academic researcher from College of Business Administration. The author has contributed to research in topics: Audit committee & Sarbanes–Oxley Act. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 105 citations.
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Audit committee characteristics and earlier voluntary ethics disclosure among fraud and no-fraud firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine specific characteristics of an audit committee that could be associated with the likelihood of earlier voluntary ethics disclosure and find that firms that made earlier voluntary disclosure were likely to have a larger and more independent audit committee and were less likely to engage in fraudulent financial reporting.
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Could investors use voluntary ethics disclosure to assess the likelihood of fraudulent financial reporting
TL;DR: This paper examined the extent of voluntary ethics disclosure among public companies that were investigated by the Securities Exchange Commission for fraudulent financial reporting, and whose first year of fraud was before the effective date of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and the New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) ethics rule.