“…Whittred & Zimmer, 1984). Some research looked at the factors that contribute to ADs (audit report lag), such as corporate governance (Kaaroud et al, 2020;Nor et al, 2010), board characteristics, CEO duality, audit committee existence and independence (Abernathy et al, 2017;Bhuiyan & D'Costa, 2020), profitability (Ambarwati & Putri, 2016;Fujianti, 2019;Ismail et al, 2022;Lai et al, 2020), audit firm attributed , financial reporting complexity (Chen et al, 2022).…”