2.4 Independent Members on Board There are several studies examining if outside members on board impact on quality of accounting information. Beasley (1996: 463) documents that firms with financial statement fraud have lower
proportion of outside members on board than firms without fraud. The researchers, however, do not find the relation between outside members on board and earnings management. Xie et al. (2003:307) demonstrate that the percentage of outside directors is insignificantly related to discretionary accruals