Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether independent directors' financial expertise affects the use of private information in setting bank chief executive officer (CEO) bonuses. Design/methodology/approach: The association between future firm performance and bank CEO bonuses is...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine whether firm-specific litigation risk affects independent director conservatism in the oversight of financial reporting. Design/methodology/approach: This study considers the enactment of Sarbanes–Oxley Act and the main US stock exchanges'...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether client‐specific litigation risk affects the audit quality differentiation between Big N and non‐Big N auditors. Specifically, the authors examine whether higher quality audits of Big N auditors relative to non‐Big auditors is more...