MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Year:2020 | Volume:13 | Issue:45|Papers Count:13

budget of a country reflects the position of the state in the economy, in other words, it is the extent and limits of government`s interference in society, and the proper administration of government finances plays a significant role in improving the economic system and the administrative and management system of the public sector. Purpose of this study was to analyze the triggers of financial policy on allocation of state budget. The research is applied one in terms of the goal, and it is descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. Statistical universe of this research includes the managers and employees of the “ plan and budget” organization. They were 100, which are obtained using Cochran's formula of 80 people. Data collection tool was a questionnaire (a total of 47 questions). Its validity obtained through content and structure validity, and its reliability through Cronbach's alpha for each of the triggers of the financial policy including (natural disasters, 0. 868; economic crises, 0. 915; social evolution, 0. 915; environmental changes, 0/922; technological advances, 0/818) and the way of state budget allocation 844/0 has been approved. Data analysis has been done using structural equation modeling and Smart PlS software. Results of the study showed that the analysis of the triggers of financial policy (natural disasters, economic crises, social evolution, environmental changes, and technological advancements) are influential on the way of allocation of public funds.

Validity and reliability are important issues in the field of testing concepts and research variables. "Cultural Accounting" is one of the concepts with many functions that considers the social and cultural interaction between individuals and domains in the accounting environment, and must be developed in a way to enable implementation and operationalization in field studies. The present study has been done through descriptive-survey method, aiming to construct and validate cultural accounting scale. In this regard, using expert opinion and content analysis, the reports of the board of directors of the companies were reviewed, and finally a researcher-made cultural accounting questionnaire was completed by the experts to obtain the required validity and reliability. After collecting data, the reliability index of the test was calculated using Cronbach's alpha (0. 866). The factor analysis of cultural accounting questions suggested that more than 63. 516% of the variance is explained by the components of this questionnaire. After a turnaround of the Varimax type factors, the correlation between each question with each component was determined at the optimal state, and based on it, eleven components (the distance of power and authority, individualism versus collectivism, assurance or uncertainty, maleism versus feminism, long-term versus short-term viewpoint, communism versus specificism, analysis versus synthesis, concentrism versus eccentrism, time sequence versus temporal symmetry, acquired versus assigned status, equivalence versus hierarchy) were extracted and selected as components of cultural accounting. According to the research findings, this questionnaire (checklist) can be used to measure the level of cultural accounting in organizations and companies admitted to the stock exchange. Using this tool, one can create a more accurate and more logical accounting environment, and generally provide a scientific method of employment of this environment.

At present, managers are under increasing pressure to not only reduce operating costs, but also to minimize the environmental impact of their activities and increase environmental performance. The main objective of this study is to identify environmental factors at the corporate level. In order to achieve this, the research was carried out in two separate phases during the years 2018 and 2019. First, after studying the theoretical foundations of the research, a descriptive phenomenological baroque qualitative research method was used, based on the experiences of people involved in the field of research. Secondly, in order to confirm and meet the identified criteria, data analysis was performed by designing a questionnaire and conducting a survey of scientific experts. The result of the study is to identify 20 criteria and classify them into 4 general categories and in the second stage to confirm and fit the general structure of all instances using structural equation technique and factor analysis test. The research findings are effective in identifying and understanding environmental standards and adhering to them at the corporate level, developing environmental accounting standards across industries and encouraging organizations to implement green accounting and will have desirable consequences.

The main objective of this paper is to examine the obstacles to the content development of corporate governance system in Iran from the perspective of cultural pluralism theory. Cultural pluralism emphasizes the ability of groups to compete and the participation of various minorities in the decision-making process related to the economic and political system Introducing the concept of cultural pluralism and its association with the corporate system, this study explores the obstacles facing cultural pluralism and accordingly does a pathological analysis of the factors underlying the underdevelopment of the corporate governance system. The results of the study show that political development, the content separation of ownership from management, the resolution of legal problems, the elimination of state corporatism, and the development of the culture of accountability can lead to the development of the corporate governance system. According to the results of this paper, the development of cultural pluralism in the Iranian economic system is considered an important factor in the development of corporate governance.

Investors simplify their decisions and judgements through applying rules of thumbs and processing only a part of available information. Salience indicates the events related to available information taking more weight in future judgements. After the formation of financial behavioral theory, the empirical studies have been directed towards the review of relationships between investors tendencies and stock price variations and in this regard, there has been no discussion on which factors affect the behavioral errors of investors and how they can be adjusted; thus, this paper aims to investigate the impact of increased accounting information quality on the decreased salience phenomenon. Therefore, a sample consisting of 600 corporates-years was studied during 2012-2016. the existence of salience phenomenon led to the investors over-reaction followed by inappropriate stock pricing. Thus, when the information quality is high, the relationship between behavioral tensions and stock market price is weaker. Consequently, high quality information reporting can decrease the impact of salient information on investors decisions.

Although the quality earnings is one of the topics that has been considered by many accounting researchers in recent decades, the accounting literature does not determine the relationships among the existing criteria accurately. In this study, earning quality criteria are divided into two groups based on reflective and formative models, and then the convergence between the criteria in each group is examined according to the motivational components of managers who are a determining factor in quality earning. The statistical sample of the study includes 163 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange between 2010 and 2018. The research findings show that First there is a positive and significant relationship between the criteria of predictability and restatement and between the criteria of persistence and restatement and also between the criteria of value relevance and discretionary accruals. Second, the convergence between the reflective criteria is greater than the formative criteria of earning quality, and third, the motivational components of debt and tax increase the convergence between the reflective criteria over the formative criteria of earning quality.

This research examines the relationship between cost-based adoption of activity and performance. It also deals with the evaluation of the tendency of choice (abandonment) and the nature of endogenousity. The Hackman model was used to evaluate the trend of sample selection and the approach of Waldridge 2 SLS-IV, to investigate the endogenous. Among the companies admitted to Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2014 to 2018, randomly, 230 companies were sent questionnaires, 198 of them participated in the survey (86% response rate). After the initial processing, 170 data remained as an example for analysis. The results showed that after controlling the trend of sample selection and introversion, the cost-based costing based on activity in the Hackman method and activity-based costing in the 2SLS-IV method Compared to the activity-based cost-benefit ratio, it is significantly higher in the least-squares method. In addition, both reverse Mills proportions are positive and significant under the Factor Hackman and Hausman model under the Weldridge 2 SLS method, which confirms the presence of both trends in sample selection and endogenous. In general, controlling the trend of sample selection and introversion to properly assess the importance of the relationship between cost-based activity-based activities.

The main issue of this research is to find a solution for the effective and long-term learning of accounting concepts and its aim is to compare the learning rate of accounting students trained using the book based on concept mapping and students who have studied text-based books. This is an applied, semi experimental and follow-up study. The research plan consists of two experimental groups (24 participator) and a control group (24 participator). These participator were master students in accounting. From both groups, the pre-test was taken on the management accounting. In the next step, the control group students used the text-based study and the students of the experimental group used conceptual maps for learning. In the last stage, two groups were tested and the results were compared. The findings showed that the average score of trained accounting students using concept mapping are more than students who studied books based on text. As concept mapping help meaningful learning of complex concepts, it is suggested that professors and students use this method of learning and teaching more extensively.

This paper aims the detection of financial statements fraud according to audit report of financial statments. The initial research data were collected from a statistical sample consisting of 164 companies, listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2017 and selected through the systematic sampling method. The statistical sample was divided into two separate groups, i. e. fraudulent (1) and non-fraudulent (0) companies. The independent fraud-related variables included 41 financial and nonfinancial variables, selected through theoretical foundations and the research background. The data of variables, collected through the desk method, were finally analyzed through the top five techniques of machine learning, including; the Bayesian networks, the decision tree, artificial neural networks, support vector machine, and combined method. According to the results, all of these techniques were highly capable of fraud detection in financial statements. Moreover, the proposed combined technique outperformed the other techniques in evaluation accuracy and power with an estimation rate of 96. 2%.

Today, supply chain management has become more important because of the globalization of business markets. As the complexity increases, the vulnerability and risk in the chain increases, resulting in an increase in production or service interruption. This process necessitates the use of new risk management techniques. In this regard, in this study, by providing and solving a fuzzy DEMATEL-Genetic Algorithm hybrid model, the cost of supply chain risk has been investigated. Then the relationships between the disorders are formulated through the fuzzy dematel technique, and the model is solved using genetic algorithm. This study examines the impact of four disruptions on supply chain costs and disruptions are ranked based on the costs incurred in the supply chain. The results show that the most important disruptions in the supply chain, respectively, are disasters, supply, transportation and demand.

Tax avoidance leads to high information asymmetry of enterprises and weakens the quality of accounting information. Auditors need to implement additional auditing procedures to control audit risks that may arise from tax avoidance, thus charging higher audit fees. Based on the trend of risk-based auditing and “ deep pocket” theory. Therefore, based on the risk-based audit process and “ deep pocket” theory, the present study investigates the association between tax avoidance and audit fees with respect to the moderating effect of state ownership on listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange. To test the research hypotheses, the financial information of the listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange was used between 2013 and 2017, so that after applying the limitations in this research, a final sample of 88 companies was selected. After measuring the variables of the research, multivariate linear regression analysis was used to test the research hypotheses. The hypothesis test is also done using Eviews econometric software and statistical techniques of panel data. The results of statistical tests indicate that tax avoidance increases the amount of corporate audit fees. In addition, the results show that the positive impact of tax avoidance on audit fees in state-owned companies is far lower. Also, the results of the sensitivity analysis test showed that the use of alternative metrics to measure tax avoidance also has no effect on the main results of the research, and the results of the research are robust.

This research examines the relationship between ethical ethics and CPAs stress. The study is a pre-survey type-applied study. Also, the survey was done from 117 members of the Iranian Association of Certified Public Accountants (IACPA). To analyze the findings in the form of two main hypotheses, structural equations were used by Smart PLS software. In this research, idealism and relativism were considered as components of ethical ideology. The findings of the research showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between CPAs ideality and stress. In addition, there was a negative and significant relationship between relativism and CPAs stress. As a result, considering the stress management of CPAs in order to achieve organizational goals, it is necessary to make appropriate plans related to the ethical ideologies of individuals.

Earning as the most important product of the accounting information system should be of an acceptable quality. Because earning is the basis of the economic decision-making of investors. Investors tend to have information about the future, including the prediction of earnings per share and its precautionary prediction. However, managers' opportunistic behavior by manipulating earnings reduces the reliance on information and reduces the quality of earning. In contrast to accounting conservatism, the manager's biased behavior in identifying earnings is delayed. Hence, the conservatism makes the manager and other groups, such as shareholders, receive less sums of return. This will increase the value of the company. The increased value of the company increases among all the parties in the company's division of the division and welfare of each group. Hence, this research examines the effect of earnings management on the relationship between earnings forecast error and accounting conservatism in a period of 9 years from the over a of 2009 to 2017 in 115 companies from listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of the research show that there is a significant (positive) relation between the predictive error of earning and the accounting conservatism (as one of the criteria of the quality of earnings) in the real earnings management. But the results of this research do not confirm the significant relationship between the predictive error of earnings and accounting conservatism in accruing earnings management.