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.
