The Financial Accounting and Auditing Researches
Year:2015 | Volume:7 | Issue:27|Papers Count:8

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial characteristics and capital structure during the life cycle of the listed companies on the Stock Exchange of Tehran. For this purpose, through separating companies in the sample study in terms of the life cycle with use of Dickinson sign of cash flows model (2011) and according to the static trade-off theory and pecking order theory, the relationship between firm size, growth opportunities, profit risks, dividends, the visibility of assets, profitability and non-debt tax shields and financial leverage, is examined.The Regression results of the survey of 134 companies shows that, despite the separation of the companies' life cycle to growth, maturity and decline stages, there was no difference in the mode of financing. Companies prefer debt as a finance source at all 3 stages of their life cycle. In other words, the companies follow pecking order theory to provide the financial resources they need.

this research aimed to explore the impact of product market competition on independent audit fee. Therefore, the financial data of 72 companies in Tehran Stock Exchange and by using panel data regression model with fixed effects were analyzed. In general, the results showed that product market competition have a significant effect on the independent audit fee. According to the obtained results it can be stated that competition reduces agency problems between managers and shareholders, who in turn reduces the issue to and the costs of information asymmetry controlled. Thus, audit risk is reduced and therefore the auditor’s fee requested will be reduced.

One of the main assumptions of agency theory is that managers ' brokers' and shareholders ' placements' conflicting interests shareholders and managers does not decide. According to this hypothesis, managers seek to maximize their own interests represented by penetration. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of financing constraints on the relationship between institutional investors and investment cash flow sensitivity. Population of 146 companies listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2007-2012.correlational research methods and statistical techniques pooled and test different variables to be tested.Test results indicate that institutional investors on investment cash flow sensitivity negative effect cash flow sensitivity and institutional investors to invest in companies with limited financial resources and a significant negative effect and the company does not have a significant effect in financing constraints.The sensitivity of cash flows to invest in companies that have restrictions on financing, is higher than companies that do not have restrictions on financing.

This study examined the effect of accumulated cash flow and free cash flow flexibility in Tehran Stock Exchange listed companies in 1393 took place. The survey companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 1387 to 1392 was, Consideration of the use of certain criteria, 50 companies qualified and recognized as the sample size was considered. Methods of data collection based on the Tehran Stock Exchange databases, website and software company stock as new software was Rahavard that to collect the required data were used to test the hypotheses. Continue to test the hypothesis Chow and Hausman test, T-test, regression model was used. Statistical methods used in this study using panel data is done using SPSS software and Eviews. The findings Despite the accumulated cash flow and free cash flow of financial flexibility to approved, also It was found accumulated cash flow and free cash flow in the company' s financial flexibility, financial flexibility than companies that do not have significant difference is positive.

When information asymmetry increases, actual value of stock a firm is different from value that investors got for that. This research provides evidence on the role of information asymmetry on equity overvaluation. For hypothesis test by collection of financial data about 63 listed companies in in Tehran Stock Exchange by using correlation analysis, was tested. Results of research show that information asymmetry has a positive and significant relationship with equity over valuation. Indeed, in studying companies in Tehran stock exchange, when managers have information advantages and manipulate earning, tend to intensify overvaluation and destroy shareholder wealth.

According to the literature, It is expected that increase in Audit Quality results in higher disclosure quality and lower information asymmetry which this in turn leads to increase in stock market liquidity of firms. In this paper, we investigated the relationship between some measures of audit quality (Independent Audit Fee, Auditors’ Tenure & Size) and stock market liquidity (Quoted Spread, Effective Spread & Market Depth).This study has been done using a sample of 64 listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange and panel data analysis. The results suggest that there is not a meaningful relationship between independent audit fee and market depth & effective spread but it’s relation with quoted spread (liquidity) is positive (negative) and meaningful. So, altogether evidences are mixed but stronger toward no significant relation between liquidity and audit fee.Moreover, findings confirmed a positive and significant relationship between stock liquidity and audit institute size but not meaningful relationship between liquidity and auditors’ tenure.

This study investigates the value relevance of unrecognized inflation gains and losses to explain changes in returns and incremental information content of inflation adjusted earnings in comparison with historical cost earnings in firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. We used inflation adjusted algorithm of Konchitchki (2011) to extract inflation adjusted information from nominal financial statements. Using ordinary least squares regressions, pooled and panel data and applying a two-stage regression approach, results indicate that unrecognized inflation gains and losses are value relevant for explaining fluctuations in returns. Moreover, inflation adjusted earnings and historical cost earnings have incremental information content beyond each other. The results of this research suggest that inflation financial reporting should be mandated as supplementary to the historical cost financial reporting rather than a replacement to historical cost financial reporting.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between cultural dimensions and information asymmetry in financial reporting of firms one listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). In this study, Hofestd standard questionnaires to measure culture and information asymmetry by using the bid-ask spread. The population of this study consists of 50 firms accepted in TSE. Cultural elements of the research model that includes individual, masculinity, power distance and uncertainty avoidance as the independent variable and information asymmetry is used as the dependent variable. In order to test the research hypotheses and evaluate the results, regression model applying SPSS software is used. Results indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between power distance and uncertainty avoidance and includes individual with information asymmetry.