Since various stock exchanges have differing requirements regarding audit committee composition, there may be a relation between stock exchange and the percentage of affiliated directors on audit committees. The NYSE proscribes company management or employees (a subset of affiliated directors) from serving on the audit committee. NASDAQ’s National Market System proscribes members of company management or employees from constituting a majority of the audit committee. The requirements as to audit committee composition for companies traded via AMEX, NASDAQ’s Small Capitalization market, or over-the-counter were either less stringent or non-existent.
We add separate dummy variables to identify companies traded on the NYSE (1 = NYSE-listed company, 0 = other) or traded via NASDAQ’s National Market System (1 = NASDAQ National Market, 0 = other) to the model presented in table 4. Neither the NYSE nor the NASDAQ dummy variable is significant (p > 0.10), but we continue to find that the greater the percentage of affiliated directors on the audit committee, the lower the probability of receiving a going-concern report (p < 0.01)