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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 accentuates the audit committee’s role in corporategovernance. SOX states that audit committee members are important monitors of the company’sfinancial reporting process (U.S. House of Representatives 2002). In this paper, we investigate how the busyness of pivotal members of the audit committee, namely the audit committee chair and theaudit committee accounting and financial expert, impacts the audit committee’s monitoringperformance.Our results indicate that both busy audit committee chairs and busy audit committee financialexperts are associated with lower financial reporting quality. However, we do not find anysignificant association between financial reporting quality and the busyness of audit committeemembers who are neither the audit committee chair nor the audit committee financial expert.Although our results suggest that relying on overcommitted audit committee chairs and financialexperts may negatively affect financial reporting quality, we are reluctant to recommend mandatinglimits on the number of audit committees an audit committee chairman or financial expert can be achair or financial expert. Each audit committee chair or audit committee financial expert is different.The overall busyness of the audit committee chair or financial expert may be influenced by theindividual director’s characteristics and the companies on which they are board members
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