The aim of this study was to investigate the role played by audit committees to improve the quality of the external audit, and for that it has the researcher to divide the study into three chapters included the first chapter the concept and the origi
ns and elements of the audit committee in general, and then eat in the second quarter the most important aspects of the special audit committee of and domestic point of view, as the law including in particular the Syrian Resolution No. 31 for the year 2008, while in the third chapter researcher reviewed the role of the audit committee in the process of external audit. To achieve the goal of the research, was designed form questionnaire includes a number of parameters have been employed to deal with every hypothesis of hypotheses, where the number of questionnaires, missed calls 78, where results showed the presence of the role of audit committees in improving the external audit, .particularly in relation to the effectiveness of the Commission review.
After the collapse of major international companies, the attention has been increased
to provide appropriate mechanisms to reduce the causes of these collapses. Some of
these causes were related to fraud in financial reporting. One of the used
mec
hanisms is the audit committee which plays the role of supervisor in the
companies.
The objective of this research is to study the role of audit committees in reducing
fraud in the Syrian public companies, and to achieve this goal, the researcher has
prepared questionnaire which has been distributed to some members of audit
committees in the Syrian public companies and some external auditors, the
questionnaire has included audit committees’ characteristics and their tasks which
would reduce fraud. The researcher has found that audit committees’ characteristics
and their tasks reduce fraud according to the research samples.
