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July 15, 2026Open Access

Corporate Governance Structure and Audit Report Quality of Listed Services Firms in Nigeria

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UOUzoma Meshark (ACA) OkochaPOProf Enyinna Okpara

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Overview

Examines how corporate governance affects audit report quality in Nigerian service firms, indicating significant impacts of governance mechanisms.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the relationship between corporate governance structures and audit report quality in Nigeria's listed service firms from 2015 to 2024.
  • Ex post facto research design utilized with secondary data from annual reports
  • Panel Least Squares regression analysis applied to assess the data
  • Focus on board size, board independence, audit committee characteristics, and ownership structure
  • Board independence positively affects audit report quality (p<0.05)
  • Audit committee characteristics significantly improve audit report quality (p<0.05)
  • Ownership structure positively influences audit report quality, indicating stronger monitoring mechanisms (p<0.05)

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Okocha et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a57245a88b21df875480bcehttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21334156
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