The Financial Accounting and Auditing Researches
Year:2015 | Volume:7 | Issue:25|Papers Count:8

Control stock blocks are usually traded more than market price of stocks and different factors influence premium paid by buyers and the price of the blocks. Therefore this issue can be considered multi criteria decision making.In this research factors influencing contol premium are determined and prioritized by using opinion of financial and investment professionals and fuzzy analytic network process.Results of this research are according to results of the previous researches and show block size, firm size, industry, cash and exchangeable assets, prior shareholder influence control premium of stock blocks.

One on of the instruments for assessing the solvency of liability as well as determining financial adaptability of firms is free cash flows. The aim of the present study is, thus, to investigate the effect of ownership structure and capital structure on free cash flows of firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this paper, two essential aspects of ownership structure, i.e. shareholders composition and the amount of ownership concentration, has been studied. Shareholders composition is measured using the following four variables: foreign ownership, corporate ownership, managerial ownership and institutional ownership. Linear regression analysis is used for testing the hypotheses. The research sample consisted of 75 firms. Our findings suggest that corporate ownership has significant relationship with firms’ free cash flow in a direct way while liability ratio has significant relationship with free cash flow in an inverse manner. However, no evidence implies the existence of a significant relationship between institutional ownership and managerial ownership and also between ownership concentration and free cash flows.

Disclosure requirements and market reaction against switching auditors have been created to discourage the management to obtain favorable auditing reports or license for applying certain auditing methods. Therefore, this research is an attempt to study the relationship between audit firm rotation and audit report in companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2012. Due to the nominal nature of the variables, this study used non-parametric Chi Square Distribution test to analyze the collected data. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between the independent audit firm rotation and audit report in the companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In addition, regarding the type of audit firm rotation, the results of the null hypothesis tests implicate that there is no significant relationship between these two variables in the companies under study.

According to the literature, there are two approaches about the correlation between tax avoiding activity and firm value. The first approach is based on value enhancing, according to which the tax avoiding activity is important for capital market players, petal market players it porches about ... and they consider this as value enhancing activity. The second approach is the agency theory, based on which the vague and complex nature of tax avoiding activities allow managers to hide bad news, in order to achieve their opportunistic goals. On the other hands, the role of corporate governance mechanisms is conducting and controlling the organization operation in order to maximize the interests of shareholders. Therefore, in this study we first examine the theory governing the Iran capital market in relation to tax avoidance and firm value and then the effects of corporate governance index on this relation is examined. To do this, a sample of 96 firms of the listed companies in Tehran stock exchange was selected. The result of this study shows that, there is a positive correlation between tax avoiding activities and firm value. This result confirms the value enhancing theory. Besides, The samples were then classified into groups of good corporate governance and bad corporate governance, in use of piece regression the effect of corporate governance on the relationship between tax avoidance and firm’s value, was investigated. The results indicate that corporate governance have a positive effect on the relationship between tax avoidance and firm’s value.

This study has been done with aim of examining the relationship between deficit and excess cash, with stock returns in inflationary conditions of Iran. This relation also, will be done once regardless of the inflationary conditions. This research is done for a sample consisting of 125 companies in Tehran stock exchange. The methods used in this research, is panel method and to eliminate sampling error, screening method (systematic elimination) is used. The results of this research indicate that considering inflation, between deficit and excess cash, a meaningful relationship with stock returns, was not obtained. Also, it shows that there is a meaningful and direct relation between stock returns and the amount of excess and or deficit cash.

This paper examines the individual and joint impact of conservatism and disclosure on the cost of equity capital. For this purpose, we obtained a sample of 87 companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results using Panel data regression method show that, as predicted, relationship between disclosure quality and cost of equity is negative. So that, with the increasing disclosure quality, cost of equity is diminished. Also the results indicate that there is inverse relation between firm level conservatism and the cost of equity capital but this relation is diminished in environments of high disclosure. The survey results can be explained from the perspective of contract theory of conservatism.

With regard to the corporate governance system as an important mechanism in dissuasion of financial information misstatement and restatement, it necessitates examining the relationship between the corporate governance and the financial restatement. The purpose of this paper, is to articulate this problem that whether characteristics corporate governance have any relationship with occurrence of restatement or not, and how is this relationship. The sample of study convenes 40 firms (98 firm-years). This sample includes a group of companies with restatement of financial statements and a control group of companies without restatement of financial statements that have been selected to match-pair procedures based on similar size and industry. In order to analyze the data, logistic regression is used. The finding shows that just there is significant relationship between Audit quality and financial restatement at the 95% confidence level.

Today, the importance of corporate governance for the company's success is no doubt., In this study the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance is evaluated based on fuzzy regression. 151 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange was selected. The model reduces the error of regression coefficient R is fuzzy. Also, due to the vague and fuzzy output values are symmetric triangular fuzzy numbers by using either the center of the output non-fuzzy will be according to the COA. Based on the results of this study hypothesized relationship between non-duty members of the Board of Directors and the Company was approved by the institutional owners. Also the dual role of CEO and company performance, significant correlations were observed. Special attention is therefore given to the study of corporate governance mechanisms on firm performance improvement is emphasized.