Nezamoddin Rahimian; seyedjavad mirabbasi; Atena Khazen
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In recent years, some managers have been smoothing income with real activities and accrual items in companies. They have been effecting on reported profits by utilization of earnings management instruments. Financial distress and bankruptcy are significant issues in the economics and accounting literature. ...
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In recent years, some managers have been smoothing income with real activities and accrual items in companies. They have been effecting on reported profits by utilization of earnings management instruments. Financial distress and bankruptcy are significant issues in the economics and accounting literature. Bankruptcy is happened when the firms cannot settle their debts, and bankruptcy prediction models try to prevent it. This study shows the effect of real earnings management on bankruptcy prediction models. Therefore, abnormal production costs, abnormal discretionary expenses and abnormal operational cash flow are considered as a real earnings management methods. Also modified Altman model is used as criteria for bankruptcy of the firms. The sample of this study is consisted of 202 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2009-2016. The hypothesis of this study has been examined by Multivariate Regression Model. The results showed that there is a significant relation between abnormal production costs and abnormal operational cash flows with bankruptcy prediction modelexcess stock returns.
Nezamoddin Rahimian; Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard; Sepideh Javadi Sofiani
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The main role of financial reporting is the effective transfer of financial information to people outside of the organization in a valid way while being ontime. This way, managers have the opportunity to judge the financial reports. This study aimed to investigate the impact of audit quality incentives ...
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The main role of financial reporting is the effective transfer of financial information to people outside of the organization in a valid way while being ontime. This way, managers have the opportunity to judge the financial reports. This study aimed to investigate the impact of audit quality incentives associated with the change of accruals in companies with high equity valuations. For this purpose, the performance of 184 companies, as a sample, during the time period of 2009-2013 was studied. In this study, the ratio of market price to earnings before extraordinary items and discontinued operations as an excess stock value measure has been used. Also, to analyze the impact of excess stock valuation on real earnings management, multivariate regression analysis considering panel data was used. The results of first hypothesis testing show that there is no significant relation between the size of audit firm and discretionary accruals. However,the results of second hypothesis testing indicate that there is a significant relationship between auditor’s tenure and optional accrual items in companies with high equity valuation. Also, the management motivation to change accruals in companies with high equity valuation is reduced.
Nezamedin Rahimian; Mahmood Ghorbani; Keyvan Shbani
Volume 10, Issue 40 , January 2014, , Pages 151-175
Abstract
Cash is one of the most crucial resources in every enterprise and making a balance between available cash and its requirements is the most important criteria for safety economic in every entity. All the companies that have enough cash for their operation and those that hold cash more than their need, ...
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Cash is one of the most crucial resources in every enterprise and making a balance between available cash and its requirements is the most important criteria for safety economic in every entity. All the companies that have enough cash for their operation and those that hold cash more than their need, have some troubles. So in this study the elements that may have influence on cash holding and the association between persistent excess cash holding on the Tehran stock exchange were examined for achieving this target. Regard to existing constraints. 73 companies for a seven years period (1384-1390) were selected as sample. With respect to the data, fixed effect regression was used. Our result show that there is a positive and significant association between firm size, net working capital, operating cash flows and financing cash flows with cash holding and variables such as leverage, growth option, variability of cash flows, close cash substitutes and level of investment opportunities have no significant relationship with cash holding. Furthermore the results of second part of this research shows that excess cash holing in both form of transitory and persistent have no influence on shareholder value.
