A summary of the findings on audit committee characteristics is displayed in Table 5. For parsimony, we present only the two audit committee indicators and the pseudo R2 of the overall model. Estimates (unreported) for control variables are similar to those shown in Table 4. Panel A shows that audit committees with or without the presence of a financial expert are associated with fewer disclosed internal control weaknesses, as highlighted by the significant coefficients for AUDIT COMMITTEE WITH FINANCIAL EXPERT and AUDIT COMMITTEE WITH NO FINANCIAL EXPERT. Furthermore, we find no evidence of a statistical difference when we restrict coefficients on AUDIT COMMITTEE WITH FINANCIAL EXPERT and AUDIT COMMITTEE WITH NO FINANCIAL EXPERT to be identical. At a minimum, the evidence suggests that the presence of a financial expert, or the lack of a financial expert, does not alter interpretation of our audit committee effectiveness results in the municipal context.