Mostafa Abdi; Hassan Zalaghi; Mahdi Kazemi Olum; Majid Aligiglo
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According to the agency theory, the existence of effective corporate governance mechanisms (audit committee) can solve the problems associated with agency issues and, as a result, reduces the free cash flow of companies. However, according to the transaction costs theory, the existence of quality corporate ...
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According to the agency theory, the existence of effective corporate governance mechanisms (audit committee) can solve the problems associated with agency issues and, as a result, reduces the free cash flow of companies. However, according to the transaction costs theory, the existence of quality corporate governance mechanisms not only does not reduce the level of these types of flows, but even leads to the increase in free cash flow due to the lower cost of these types of internal financing in comparison with other financing methods. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the audit committee's characteristics (size, independence, financial expertise, and gender of the members of the audit committee) and the free cash flow in companies admitted to Tehran Stock Exchange during the period from 2014 to 2018. The research hypotheses were tested using regression analysis and unbalanced combination data approach. The research findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between the characteristics of size, independence, financial expertise, and gender of the members of the audit committee and free cash flow. These findings are in line with the transaction costs theory. The research findings also lead to the development of theoretical and experimental literature on the effectiveness of the role of audit committees in the field of company risk management with an emphasis on liquidity management and free cash flows.
Hassan Zalaghi; Asyieh Ghadami Mashhour
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Transparency is the core of financial reporting and the transparency of financial reporting is to provide an understanding of the economic facts of business units through financial reports. On the other hand, earnings management is an unrealistic report of a business's economic performance ...
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Transparency is the core of financial reporting and the transparency of financial reporting is to provide an understanding of the economic facts of business units through financial reports. On the other hand, earnings management is an unrealistic report of a business's economic performance that is aimed at misleading somestakeholders or affecting contractual outcomes. Therefore, in the current research, the relationship between real earning management and Accrual Earnings Management with the transparency of accounting information has been studied. The sample includes 112 Firms from listed Firms in Tehran Stock Exchange, which weresurveyed during 2010-2017. To measure real earning management used from model of Roychowdhury (2006) and for measuring the Accrual Earnings Management used from the modified Jones model and to measure the transparency of accounting information used from model of Bart et al.(2009). The results showed that there is meaningful relationship between real earning management and the transparency ofaccounting information, which means that the use of discretion regarding operational, investment and financing decisions, which are important indicators of real earning management, can affect the transparency of financial information.Too results showed that there was no significant relationship between Accrual EarningsManagement and transparency of accounting information.
Hasan Zalghi; Amin Amir Bakhtiarvand
Volume 14, Issue 53 , April 2017, , Pages 173-198
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the forecasting accuracy of futureoperating cash flows of firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange has beeninvestigated. Audit quality has been measured with auditor size, auditorindustry specialization and auditor tenure. Similar to some previousresearches ...
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the forecasting accuracy of futureoperating cash flows of firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange has beeninvestigated. Audit quality has been measured with auditor size, auditorindustry specialization and auditor tenure. Similar to some previousresearches done in this outline, forecasting accuracy of future operating cashflows have been estimated with using model Barth et al (2001). The resultsof review firms 97 in the years 2007 to 2014 show that size of audit firm andauditor industry specialization have significant positive relationship at theforecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows, and increase forecastingaccuracy. while there is a significant negative relationship betweenforecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows and auditor tenure. Thesefindings suggest that audit quality can influence the quality of accountinginformation and therefore effected over forecasting accuracy of futureoperating cash flows.
hassan zalaghi; Amin Amir Bakhtiarvand; saied Ebrahimzadeh
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows among between firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange has been investigated. Audit quality has been measured with auditor size, auditor industry specialization and auditor tenure.Similar to some previous ...
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows among between firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange has been investigated. Audit quality has been measured with auditor size, auditor industry specialization and auditor tenure.Similar to some previous researches done in this outline, forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows have been estimated with using model Barth et al (2001). The results of review firms 97 in the years 2007 to 2014 show that size of audit firm and auditor industry specialization have significant positive relationship at the forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows, so caused increase its .while there is a significant negative relationship between forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows and auditor tenure. These findings suggest that audit quality can influence the quality of accounting information and therefore it is effected over forecasting accuracy of future operating cash flows.
