Rafik Baghoomian; Hojjat Mohammadi Mohammadi; Sajad Naghdi
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This paper assesses the impact of a comprehensive set of macroeconomic factors (including changes in exchange rate, changes in inflation rate, changes in liquidity, changes in trade balance, and changes in gross domestic production) on error of management earnings forecast in companies ...
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This paper assesses the impact of a comprehensive set of macroeconomic factors (including changes in exchange rate, changes in inflation rate, changes in liquidity, changes in trade balance, and changes in gross domestic production) on error of management earnings forecast in companies annual reports. Detailed analysis of research related to earnings forecasting bymanagers and especially researches in Iran, indicates lack of adequate attention to the impact of the macroeconomic variables on earnings forecast error so this paper seeks to fill this research gap. The data set includes 80 companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) for the period of 1386 - 1393. The study used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression model toexamine the relationship between above mentioned macroeconomic factors and management earnings forecast. The empirical results show that among the macroeconomic variables that have been examined, there are only significant positive relationships between two of above mentioned macroeconomic factors (including changes in exchange rate, and changes in gross domestic product) and management earnings forecast. We did not find any statistically significant association between other macroeconomic factors (including changes in inflation rate, liquidity, and trade balance) and management earnings forecast. The results suggest that macroeconomic variables can affect the accuracy of earnings forecasts by management, hence the neglecting of such factors can result in increasing in the error of earnings forecasts.
Rafik Baghoomian; Ali Rahimi Baghi
Volume 8, Issue 32 , January 2011, , Pages 49-72
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The economic development necessitate that accounting system provides accurate, on-time, and reliable information to all parties involved in the planning, implementation and controlling of development projects. So in developing countries such as Iran, accounting education and its development is part of ...
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The economic development necessitate that accounting system provides accurate, on-time, and reliable information to all parties involved in the planning, implementation and controlling of development projects. So in developing countries such as Iran, accounting education and its development is part of the infrastructure required for economic development.
Past studies shows that Iranian accounting education system suffers from some fundamental deficiencies, and does not identify and educate true talents to create essential expertise for different sectors as expected. To remove such barriers, identification of development barriers will be the first step to be taken.
This research, tries to recognize these barriers, and to determine how much important is each of them. At the end, some recommendations have been presented to remove those barriers based on the results. The results show that poor English language ability and IT skills is the most important factor which can be considered as accounting education development barrier in Iran.
A. Saghfi; R. Baghomian
Volume 7, Issue 25 , April 2009, , Pages 1-52
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In response to growing concerns about the usefulness of current financial reporting, several studies have investigated changes in the value relevance of accounting information during the last few decades. In addition to lacking a consensus on whether there has been a decline in value relevance, a major ...
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In response to growing concerns about the usefulness of current financial reporting, several studies have investigated changes in the value relevance of accounting information during the last few decades. In addition to lacking a consensus on whether there has been a decline in value relevance, a major concern over this literature relates to the appropriateness of the conventional method for measuring relevance based on the market price variable association. Motivated by growing evidence in the behavioral finance literature that market prices deviate from their underlying fundamental values, and by using of residual income valuation model, this study argues, and demonstrates empirically, that the documented decline in value relevance, is the outcome of two effects, not one effect as previously interpreted. The first one is the accounting measurement effect, reflecting a failure in current financial reporting to (fully) capture the underlying economic value of the firm, resulting in a genuine decline in value relevance. The second is the investor behavior effect caused by growing influence of non-fundamental factors in investor pricing decisions, which results in an artificial decline in value relevance. Results show that, based on the conventional method, there has been a decline in the value relevance of accounting information of companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period between 1378 and 1387. As hypothesized, the documented decline in value relevance is not solely the outcome of financial reporting becoming less relevant (the accounting measurement effect), but is similarly caused by growing speculation in investor behavior as evident in the increasing extent of non-fundamental values in market prices (the investor behavior effect). An additional analysis of value relevance based. on the association between financial variables and estimated fundamental values indicates no decline in financial information value relevance during this period and shows that the documented decline in value relevance is driven mostly by increasing investor speculation that is not attributable to changes in fundamental values.
Ali Saghafi; Mohammad Arab Mazaryazdi; Rafik Baghomian
Volume 3, Issue 10 , July 2005, , Pages 127-156
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The fast moving pace of developments on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and especially on the Internet, affects all aspects of society. In accounting, the Internet provides a new and revolutionary method of financial reporting. It is fast, cheap and increasingly accessible to shareholders ...
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The fast moving pace of developments on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and especially on the Internet, affects all aspects of society. In accounting, the Internet provides a new and revolutionary method of financial reporting. It is fast, cheap and increasingly accessible to shareholders and other stakeholders of the firms.
Despite above mentioned evolution, there is a little attention toward such changes in Iran.
The organization of this paper is as follows. It first provides a brief literature review of Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) and describes some theoretical approaches on i t. Thereafter the paper reports current situation of IFR and then predicts immediate and future trends of it. The last section reviews the current situation of IFR i n Iran and finally makes suggestions to improve the situation.
