Hassan Farajzadeh Dehkordi; Leila Aghaei
Volume 12, Issue 45 , April 2015, , Pages 97-114
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This paper investigates the relation between fraudulent financialreporting and firms’ dividend policies. Specifically, this researchconcentrated on situations that it is possible to classify financialrestatement into fraudulent and non-fraudulent based on themanagement’s incentives for discretionary ...
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This paper investigates the relation between fraudulent financialreporting and firms’ dividend policies. Specifically, this researchconcentrated on situations that it is possible to classify financialrestatement into fraudulent and non-fraudulent based on themanagement’s incentives for discretionary accounting choices .The data is related to 247 firms (consisted of 2,238 firm-yearobservation) during 1381-1390. A Meet-or-beat model was used toclassify firms as making discretionary accounting choices foropportunistic meet-or-beat. Furthermore, a fixed effects logisticregression with panel data was used to test hypothesis. Results showthat dividend-paying firms have less likelihood to engage infraudulent financial reporting furthermore, the negative associationbetween dividend paying status and fraudulent financial reporting isstronger when the size of dividend payouts is larger .Overall, resultssuggest firm’s dividend policy is indicative of its earnings quality.Specifically, dividend policy unfolds the manager’s incentives forfinancial restatements.
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While perior studies faild to document a meaningful relationship between financial restatement, as a measure of earnings quality, and firms’ dividend paying policy, the purpose of the present study is to reinvestigate this relationship by classifying financial restatements into opportunistic and ...
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While perior studies faild to document a meaningful relationship between financial restatement, as a measure of earnings quality, and firms’ dividend paying policy, the purpose of the present study is to reinvestigate this relationship by classifying financial restatements into opportunistic and non-opportunistic based on management incentives in using discretionary accruals. The data is related to 247 firms (consisted of 2,238 firm-year observations) during 1381-1390. A Meet-or-beat model was applied to determine opportunistic financial reporting. Furthermore, a fixed effects logistic regression with panel data was used to test hypothesis. Results show that dividend-paying firms have less likelihood to engage in opportunistic financial reporting through fincial restatements. Furthermore, the negative association between dividend paying status and opportunistic financial reporting is stronger when the size of dividend payouts are larger. Overall, results suggest firm’s dividend policy is indicative of its earnings quality. Specifically, dividend policy unfolds the manager’s incentives behind the financial restatements.
Hossein Etemadi; Ali Asghar Anvari rostami; Vahid Ahmadian
Volume 11, Issue 41 , April 2014, , Pages 59-81
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Abstract: The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the life cycle of the company's on dividend policy of the company which is accepted on the Tehran Stock Exchange. In this study, the ratio of dividends to the earnings per share and dividends to the company size are considered ...
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Abstract: The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the life cycle of the company's on dividend policy of the company which is accepted on the Tehran Stock Exchange. In this study, the ratio of dividends to the earnings per share and dividends to the company size are considered as the dependent variables and life cycle of the company is considered as independent variable. At first a statistical sample is separated by using variables, sales growth, age, and capital expenditure of the company's growth, maturity and decline then hypotheses of the study have been tested by using ANOVA and LSD tests. Analyses of 435 years - the company during the years 1386 to 1390 show that the company's dividend policy at different stages of the life cycle (growth, maturity and decline) differ. The results indicate that the average ratio of dividends to market value of equity of the sample firm's growth, maturity and decline vary. Accordingly, it is recommended to financial analysts to concern life cycle as a key factor when evaluating the current and future performance and financial structure of the company. for doing accurate analysis of financial condition and anticipated interest payments decisions, it is better to determine the company's life cycle.