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ABSTRACT
The study investigates the impact of audit committee on audit tenureship on the Nigeria firm. The study adopts the data collected from the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), the researcher used the ordinary least square regression model to analyses the research hypotheses. From the findings it was deduced that audit committee has positive insignificant impact on external and internal auditors, long term tenureship has positive insignificant impact on auditing quality, the audit committee has positive insignificant on audit tenureship in an organization. The relationship between board independence and audit quality could be perceived to be borne out of the expectation that the higher the proportion of non-executive directors, the higher the degree of the board independence which invariably affects the probability of the board trying to influence the tenure of internal and external auditors. The study recommends that the composition of non-executive directors as members of the board should be sustained and improved upon.
Keywords: audit committee, audit tenureship, internal auditors, external auditors and board independence.
