Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Ali Saghafi
• Ghasem Blue

Abstract

The significance and critical role of human capital (HC) is broadly accepted. Human capital financial reporting as the classic "human resource accounting", has a long history. As a result, many methods have been proposed for HC measuring and reporting. Given that the HC financial reporting is still an unsolved problem, it is important to evaluate the quality of HC measurement and reporting models. The research offers evidences about the relevance and information content of "Capital-Based Human Capital Financial Reporting Model". For this purpose, we utilized the value relevance models as an experimental framework. Using cluster sampling, we chose and examined 22 corporations, from 2011 to 2015. We utilized OLS to test our research hypothesis. The results indicate that capital-based model is relevant for measuring and reporting Iranian corporations' HC. After verifying the relevance characteristic using a quasi-experimental method, at a higher level, information content of the model was examined by applying four-group experimental design with pretest and posttest. The results of this experiment, performed in controlled conditions and with the help of graduate accounting students of Allameh Tabatabai University, show no significant difference between experimental and control groups' responses, and therefore no additional information content.

Keywords

• human capital financial reporting
• capital-based model
• relevance
• information content