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Exploring the identity of audit committee members of New Zealand listed companies
Author(s) -
Wu Julia,
Habib Ahsan,
Weil Sidney,
Wild Susan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of auditing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.583
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1099-1123
pISSN - 1090-6738
DOI - 10.1111/ijau.12111
Subject(s) - audit committee , salience (neuroscience) , audit , accounting , chief audit executive , corporate governance , joint audit , business , internal audit , audit evidence , public relations , identity (music) , information technology audit , political science , psychology , finance , physics , acoustics , cognitive psychology
We focus on the attributes of audit committee members at an individual level through investigating their role‐based identity ; this approach represents a departure from the traditional approach of measuring their independence and financial expertise. The data revealed that there is a wide range of backgrounds and attributes identified by New Zealand audit committee members as being helpful in performing their responsibilities. Members’ motivation and justification for serving on the audit committees played a significant role in verifying their identity salience in terms of being an audit committee member. Regulators and other corporate governance stakeholders may benefit from a further understanding of the reciprocal relationship between an audit committee mechanism and its members’ identity salience.