# Professor April Klein's joint research on the impact of audit committee regulations is highlighted

1 Faculty News November 1, 2017 ![CFO Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036148.gif?itok=JlCudNc0)>

Excerpt from [CFO](http://ww2.cfo.com/auditing/2017/11/sec-audit-committee-rule-worthless-study/) -- "'Mandating a fully independent audit committee with at least three outside directors is not, on average, value enhancing,' write the authors, Seil Kim of the City University of New York and [April Klein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/april-klein) of New York University. The study’s findings are based on financial and governance information on 1,122 companies drawn from several large databases."

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