Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh; Abbas Hooshmand
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between auditors' characteristics and their business and professional orientations. The impact of these professional and business orientations is also examined on actions that lead to lower quality of audit services. Using the questionnaire, ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between auditors' characteristics and their business and professional orientations. The impact of these professional and business orientations is also examined on actions that lead to lower quality of audit services. Using the questionnaire, the required data were collected from 283 certified accountants. The results show that among the characteristics of auditors, the level of knowledge and awareness, degree of adaptation and communication skills of auditors have a positive and significant relationship with their professional orientation, but marketing skills has a negative relationship with professional orientation. While creativity and innovation had no significant relationship with professional orientation. On the other hand, the auditors' marketing and communication skills have a positive and significant relationship with their business orientation. However, the level of knowledge and awareness, compatibility and creativity of auditors has no significant relationship with business orientation. Finally, professional orientation was found to decrease actions to reduce audit quality, whereas the business orientation exacerbated it. Therefore, it should be noted that auditors' business orientation may adversely affect the quality of their audits, so adopting appropriate mechanisms in this regard seems necessary.
Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh; Erfan Mohammadi
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This paper is aimed to review the effect of audit committee characteristics on the relationship between audit report timeliness and auditor task complexity in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). After analyzing the theoretical foundations and research hypotheses through systematic sampling, 39 companies ...
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This paper is aimed to review the effect of audit committee characteristics on the relationship between audit report timeliness and auditor task complexity in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). After analyzing the theoretical foundations and research hypotheses through systematic sampling, 39 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange were selected in a 6-year time-period 1391-1396 (i.e. 234 observations) as a statistical sample. The hypotheses have been tested within the sample by using the classic assumptions and multivariate linear regression. The results show that increasing the size, independence and the financial expertise of the audit committee would not weaken the intensity of the direct relationship between audit report timeliness and Audit Task Complexity
Mohammad Hossein Safarzadeh; Ahmad Saghafi Pour1F
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AbstractThis research investigates the impact of accounting conservatism on the stock market’s valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses. The sample is comprised of 126 publicly traded firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during 1386-1392. The nonrecurring gains and losses, also known as ...
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AbstractThis research investigates the impact of accounting conservatism on the stock market’s valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses. The sample is comprised of 126 publicly traded firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during 1386-1392. The nonrecurring gains and losses, also known as special items, have asymmetric market valuation multiples, which are proxied by the earnings response coefficient (ERC) in this research. The results show that: (1). an asymmetry exists in the valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses; and (2) the asymmetry can be explained by the idea of accounting conservatism, which is the tendency that firms report economic losses on a timelier basis than economic gains. The above findings show that nonrecurring losses have a higher earnings response coefficient than nonrecurring gains, due to the fact that nonrecurring losses (non-operational losses) are impounded in earnings much quicker than the gains (non-operational gains). Furthermore, as the level of conservatism increases within a firm, this asymmetry of market valuation becomes larger, signifying that the information content of negative nonrecurring items increases at a rate greater than that of positive nonrecurring items
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This research investigates the impact of accounting conservatism on the stock market’s valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses. The sample is comprised of 126 publicly traded firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during 1386-1392. The nonrecurring gains and losses, also known as special ...
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This research investigates the impact of accounting conservatism on the stock market’s valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses. The sample is comprised of 126 publicly traded firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during 1386-1392. The nonrecurring gains and losses, also known as special items, have asymmetric market valuation multiples, which are proxied by the earnings response coefficient (ERC) in this reseach. The results show that: (1). an asymmetry exists in the valuation of nonrecurring gains and losses; and (2) the asymmetry can be explained by the idea of accounting conservatism, which is the tendency that firms report economic losses on a timelier basis than economic gains. The above findings show that nonrecurring losses are have a higher earnings response coefficient than nonrecurring gains, due to the fact that nonrecurring losses (non-operational losses) are impounded in earnings much quicker than the gains (non-operational gains). Furthermore, as the level of conservatism increases within a firm, this asymmetry of market valuation becomes larger, signifying that the information content of negative nonrecurring items increases at a rate greater than that of positive nonrecurring items.
