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Hi everyone

I wrote the following sentence but I am very doubtful about its clarity and I have no idea how it may seem to a native speaker.

"As long as weak internal controls make it possible for top managers to be engaged in opportunistic practices (Epps & Guthrie, 2010), it is to be expected that that gender-diverse ACs are less likely to endure weak internal controls due to their concerns about financial reports quality"

What do you think about the meaning it conveys?

GPY · Accepted Answer

Before answering, may I ask what "AC" stands for in this context?

GPY · Answer

farzanAs long as weak internal controls make it possible for top managers to be engaged in opportunistic practices (Epps & Guthrie, 2010)

This part is OK, though "engage in" is a bit neater here than "be engaged in".

farzanit is to be expected that that gender-diverse ACs are less likely to endure weak internal controls due to their concerns about financial reports quality"

There is nothing in what you have written to explain why this is "to be expected". It may be clearer in the overall context, but I would really need to see the whole thing. Even if you have explained elsewhere why this is "to be expected", the structure of this particular sentence may still seem to imply that the "As long as ~" part explains "to be expected", which it doesn't, so the part after the comma may read like a non-sequitur. Also, this part seems to imply that non-gender-diverse ACs do not have any quality concerns, which seems implausible. You may possibly mean to say greater concerns, if that is your thesis.

"endure" is probably not quite the right verb. "tolerate" or "permit" seems better.

"financial reports quality" is not quite right. You can say "the quality of financial reports".

Typo: "that that".

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