“…The various elements considered are board structure (Ameer et al, 2010;Dharmadasa et al, 2014;Brickley et al, 1997), ownership structure (Ameer et al, 2010;Nuryanah and Islam, 2011), managerial ownership (Abdel-Meguid et al, 2014;Nuryanah and Islam, 2011) promoter shareholding, audit committee independence, gender diversity, etc. (Chen et al, 2013;Dayanandan et al, 2019;Filatotchev et al, 2013). Predominantly previous literature, for example, Prentice and Space (2007), Pucheta-Martinez and de Fuentes (2007) had emphasised on analysing the impact of the audit committee on financial reporting process but studies related to its impact on financial performance of a firm are limited.…”