Linking diversity on audit committees and financial reporting quality in Poland

This study investigates the influential effects of diversity among audit committees' members on the quality of the financial reporting. We use an insider corporate governance model characterised by high ownership concentration, low minority shareholder protection and a two-tier corporate governance system to show how different environments affect the efficiency of boards and their AC. Our findings highlight how various diversity characteristics influence a board's monitoring function and can, therefore, help supervisory bodies and regulators promote corporate governance practices, especially the responsibilities of ACs, in both Central and Eastern Europe and other emerging economies.