TY - JOUR T1 - The Relationship Between Audit Quality, Board Independence and Audit Committee Independence on Earnings Management Before and after Full Convergence of IFRS AU - Chee, Hong Kok AU - Phua, Lian Kee AU - Iung Yau, Damien Lee JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 20 SP - 4902 EP - 4906 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.4902.4906 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.4902.4906 KW - Earnings management KW -audit committee KW -audit quality KW -independent directors KW -Malaysia AB - This study examines the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms (audit committee, independent directors and audit quality) and earnings management. The study period examined was 2006/07 (pre-IFRS regime and 2012/13 (post-IFRS regime) and covered 176 and 175 firms, respectively. Unbalanced panel data analysis was used. The findings show that, pre-IFRS regime, corporate governance mechanism of independent directors mitigate earnings management but post-IFRS regime, auditor size (represented by Big 4 audit firms and non-Big 4 audit firms) mitigate earnings management and audit committee and independent directors do not mitigate earnings management. ER -