Empirical Studies in Financial Accounting

Abstract International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium Sized Entities (IFRS For SMEs) is a set that has less requirements than international financial reporting standards. Small and medium enterprises are being adopted in many countries and these standards are under consideration in Iran. It is necessary that this set of standards be examined before application. In the present study, by using the fair value approach in SME reporting standards, the impact of this approach on the performance indicators based of SME-standards has been investigated. The main purpose of this study is to investigate changes in performance indicators after applying SMEs standards.The statistical population of this research is the subsidiry companies of the public companies whose activities are investment and 95 companies selected as sample. The research period is 2015 to 2017. Therefore, using historical data in the audited financial statements of these companies and the fair value of the investment portfolio of these companies based on the trading portfolio and the report on the status of the portfolio in the codal website, changes in return on assets ratio (ROA) and return on equity ratio (ROE) as performance indicators, is evaluated statistically after applying the fair value approach and compared with the indicators based on Iran's accounting standard.
The results indicated that the ratio of return on assets and return on equity as performance indicators, after the implementation of the International Financial Reporting Standard for small and medium sized entities did not change significantly.

Abstract Applying effective supply chains and planning the models of evaluating performance have been considered in recent years. The main purpose of this chain is reducing costs, increasing the effectiveness and efficacy and in general improving profit for all its stakeholders. The present study attempted to investigate the possible effect of Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) on performance of companies that listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, the 3 month interim (seasonal) data of 37 pharmaceutical and cement companies (888 seasons - company) during 2009-2014 were utilized as sample. The results showed that there was a meaningful negative effect of Days of Sales Outstanding, Days of Inventory, and Operating Cash Cycle on performance. Thus, firms’ managers could improve their performances by adopting plans and policies in the field of financial supply chain. However, there was not found any significant effect on Days of Payables Outstanding, Cash Conversion Cycle on firms’ performance

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to show that board structure affects the value relevance of earnings. The role of board structure is to reduce the conflicts of interests between shareholders and managers. Four attributes of board structure includes Board size, CEO membership, Duality and Board independence are considered in this study. These attributes are used in this study to assess the impact of board structure on information content of accounting earnings. Information dynamics models, such as the Ohlson (1995) model provide a testable pricing equation that also identifies the role non-accounting information (i.e. corporate governance) plays in determining firm value. Based on Ohlson’s (1995) model, the change in value model, as developed by Easton and Harris (1991), is modified to include the proposed interaction between board structure and earnings management. In order to hypothesis testing, the pooled GLS regression is employed as the primary technique to estimate the coefficients. These coefficients are then examined using the Wald test to find out whether the earnings response coefficients after incorporating indictors of earnings reliability are significantly different from the earnings response coefficients irrespective of any propositions. The sample was drawn from listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) for the years 1383 to 1387. The final sample contained 675 firm-year observations. The results reveal that board structure have no effect on information content of accounting earnings.