The Financial Accounting and Auditing Researches
Year:2019 | Volume:11 | Issue:42 |Papers Count:10

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between two dimension of conservatism on firms’ investment behavior and future return. In previous studies, the effects of conservatism on these two variables have not been investigated, so this study is innovative. Therefore, we examined 191 accepted firms on Tehran Stock Exchange. To test the hypotheses, model estimations were done by panel data method. The results showed, increasing in conditional conservatism reduces firms’ investment, while unconditional conservatism encourages firms to invest more. Examining the relationship between conservatism and firms’ future return revealed, there was a significantly negative (positive) relation between conditional conservatism (unconditional conservatism) and firms’ future return. So increasing in conditional conservatism (unconditional conservatism) will reduce (raise) firms’ future return. Generally, the results showed, dimensions of conservatism can affect on behavior and amount of investment and returns of firms.

Empirical research indicates the cost of transactions in capital markets is economically important. Transaction costs decrease dramatically as liquidity increase. Also, Liquidity plays an important role in the process of price discovery. The concept of liquidity in fledgling markets like Iran is more important. The results of papers in the field of stocks Liquidity in Iran Stock Exchange indicates investors consider the illiquidity risk in their decision. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of investment Companies ownership on stock liquidity of investee companies. In order to measure stock liquidity Bid-Asked spread criteria is used. For this purpose a sample of 72 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange have been analyzed using panel data regression model (fixed effects). Generally, in 95% confidence level, the results show there is a significant positive relationship between the ownership percentage of investment companies and Bid-Asked spread. In other words, there is a significant negative relationship between the ownership percentage of investment companies and investee's stock liquidity.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Effect of firm's Working Capital Efficiency under Financing Constraint on Market Value of those Firms. In this study companies divided into two main groups according financing constraint: firms with financing constraint and without financing constraint. In order to test the research hypotheses, Pooled and Panel models used. The population of this study includes all listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange which were in stock market. Finally, data of 127 companies were examined. Findings of the research indicate that there is no significant relationship between working capital and firm value according financing constraint in Tehran Stock Exchange listed companies.

The present article investigates the subject of usage of accruals by managers for transferring the information to market and the data related to profitability and dividend announcements is chosen as the research context. This context prevents managers from smoothing the dividends, consequently enhances the validity of research conclusion. Statistical population of present study includes 160 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. The data was analyzed using multivariate regression model and the hypotheses are tested using combined data. According to theoretical foundations of the research, managers may use dividend and accruals as a token for future profitability to corporate, that, the findings of the research are based on these theoretical foundations. According to the result of the first hypothesis stating that the reaction of market to increased dividend announcement is positive which was confirmed, morevere to the results of the third hypothesis stating that positive accruals of companies positively correlate with future profitability of companies which was confirmed in this study. The second hypothesis, finding is inconsistent to the claim stated in of research and this hypothesis is rejected on 95% confidence level.

Initial audit pricing and its impacts on independence and audit quality have great of interest in capital markets, supervisory legislations and audit profession institutions. There are two competing theories regarding the initial audit pricing. The first theory supports low-balling phenomenon while the second theory is against low-balling. The main objective of the current study is to investigate the occurrence/ non-occurrence of low-balling due to factors such as the type of client's company, the degree of competition and classification for listed Companies. The statistical population includes all companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange and Iranian's non-listed companies. Multiple regression techniques employed to test the hypotheses. Result shows that the type of client's company and classification for listed Companies do not affect the power of expressing the competing theories and low-balling phenomenon significantly exists in all cases. Instead, the degree of competition considerably affects the power of expressing the competing theories. With the increase in competition, low-balling decreases.

This study, in the first step, presents a model that determines the optimal capital structure and specifies the definition of the capital structure based on the debt and performance ratios of the institutions. To achieve this, the relationship between independent variables and capital structure is assessed through a dynamic GMM model. In the next step, we examine the effects of the capital structure on the profitability of investment in different thresholds, which confirms the two thresholds both in Iran and in the countries of South-East Asia. In this study, data and financial information of 231 companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange and 1474 companies in Southeast Asian countries were used. The results show two thresholds of the three regimes in Iran and the countries of Southeast Asia. In Iran, the greatest effect of the debt ratio on profitability is observed in the first regime, while in the second regime decreasing effects and in the third regime a tremendous negative effect is seen. However, in South-East Asia, the greatest effect of the debt ratio on profitability is in the second regime, while the first regime it has a downward effect, and in the third regime it has negative effects. As a result, in Iran, companies should leverage their debt ratios to the level of the first regime to prevent losses and even bankruptcy, whereas in South-East Asia, the debt ratio can reach to the level of the second regime.

The aim of this study is investigating the relationship between disclosure quality and information asymmetry. there is a large body of empirical research in accounting that documented the negative relation between disclosure quality and information asymmetry, but in addition to this relationship, the effect of market to book ratio on this relation has investigated. high M/B ratio decrypted the future growth of the firm and this firms has more uncertainty. for this firms, more disclosure has stronger effect on information asymmetry. based on M/B, sample has divided in two categories: high and low M/B ratio and the relation between disclosure quality and information asymmetry were studied for two groups. disclosure quality by providing all the information needed for decision making prevents. to measure disclosure quality, the scores assigned to each company by the Tehran Stock Exchange was used. information asymmetry by using Venkatesh and Chiang (1986) have been measured. in order to empirical investigation of the issue data of 90 manufacturing firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange was analyzed and to test the hypothesis multivariate regression using the panel data was used. The findings show that there is negative relation between disclosure quality and information asymmetry, and also ratio of market to book can enhance this relation.

Investors are always looking for the opportunity to invest and earn greater returns so that the current situation will lead to success optimal use of the investment opportunities available and use of timely and reasonable investment opportunities Units significant impact the performance of the Company. In this study, 136 companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange is investigated. The results show that investment opportunities in companies with investment opportunities up and down, companies with investment opportunities and company investment opportunity low cash value added positive and has a significant in companies with investment opportunities the average, cash value added not significant.

Voluntary disclosure is a broad concept that has been investigated in various aspects. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between external financing and voluntary disclosure regard to financial status of firms listed on TSE. In this study, a sample of 170 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange was selected. To examine the relationship between variables, multiple regression, and to fit the regression, Generalized Least Squares Method is used. Excel and Eviews software were used for data analysis and panel data were used for hypothesis testing. The results show that there is a negative relationship between external financing and voluntary disclosure and positive relationship between t financial status and voluntary disclosure. In addition, financial status proxied by market value has an incrasing affect on the relationship between external financing and voluntary disclosure.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of ownership concentration as a internal of corporate governance on the relationship between ownership concentration and dividend policy. Also the variable product market competition as a external of corporate governance is used to adjust the relationship between these two variables. In order to achieve this goal, 70 manufacturing companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange was investigated. Because of the kind of data, panel data method is used. Results show that companies with a high concentration of ownership divided more dividends between shareholders that positive influence has been more in the competitive environment. In other words, in less competitive environments the impact of ownership concentration on dividend is higher.