Financial Accounting
Alireza Javadipour; jafar babajani; Ghasem blue; vajhollah ghorbanizadeh
Abstract
Due to the lack of comprehensive research in the country in order to provide a model to evaluate the performance of the audit committee, the present research has addressed this issue and a practical model for the use of the activities of the audit committee has been presented.Method: The research method ...
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Due to the lack of comprehensive research in the country in order to provide a model to evaluate the performance of the audit committee, the present research has addressed this issue and a practical model for the use of the activities of the audit committee has been presented.Method: The research method used in the first stage of the research was extracting the dimensions, components and performance evaluation indicators of the audit committee from the theoretical sources of the research. Then, the fuzzy Delphi method was used to screen the indicators, and the best-worst (BWM) multi-criteria decision-making method was used to weight each dimension, component, and index.Findings: The model obtained in the current research includes 3 parts of evaluating the individual characteristics of the members of the audit committee, evaluating the work processes and reporting of the audit committee, and evaluating its duties and responsibilities, and the final model includes 3 dimensions, 13 components and 78indicator.Conclusion: According to the findings of the research, the important components in evaluating the performance of the audit committee are the audit committee meetings, the audit committee resources, communication with the board of directors, the audit committee charter, and monitoring of financial reporting. Also, the results showed that the working and reporting processes of the audit committee have the most weight in the evaluation of the audit committee's performance, and the evaluation of the audit committee meetings as the focus of the audit committee's activities is the most important among the evaluation components.
Roohalah Seddighi; Mohammad Marfou; Ali Ghasemi
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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 ...
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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.
Sh. Khajavi; M. Sayrani; A. Allahyari
Volume 8, Issue 30 , July 2010, , Pages 151-177
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This study aims at investigating the feasibility of the application of "Balanced Scorecard", in performance measurement of Shiraz hospitals. Balanced Scorecard is one of the management accounting techniques which was first introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This technique organized ...
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This study aims at investigating the feasibility of the application of "Balanced Scorecard", in performance measurement of Shiraz hospitals. Balanced Scorecard is one of the management accounting techniques which was first introduced by Robert Kaplan and David Norton in 1992. This technique organized in four distinct prospective: financial, customer, internal processes and learning and growth. Four prospective related to balanced scorecard were analyzed based on one main hypothesis and four subsidiaries. The gained results of Statistical analysis showed that indicating in all prospective of Balanced Scorecard in Shiraz hospitals is possible, but yet pre required and needed thought to implementing this technique in Shiraz hospitals is not done well. We found out through more surveys that customer prospective was the most noticeable prospective and internal processes, financial and learning and growth prospective were ranked respectively.
Hossein Etemadi; Banani Mahdi
Volume 5, Issue 19 , October 2007, , Pages 73-91
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One aim of investors in the purchasing of company stocks is using from the dividends. Investors enjoy from the cash flow and want to receive assure for particular amounts in the determine time, on the other hand, dividends payout can indicate the financial healthy and suitable condition of company for ...
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One aim of investors in the purchasing of company stocks is using from the dividends. Investors enjoy from the cash flow and want to receive assure for particular amounts in the determine time, on the other hand, dividends payout can indicate the financial healthy and suitable condition of company for investors. So companies can use this weapon in their sharing price and also guiding the investors. The aim of this research is the consideration of the payment dividends balance dependent with the company operation of two assessment equivalent including the economic value added and return on assets. In order to consider the subject of 88 companies select that was necessary to account the research variables and the suitable statistic testing perform like the correlation tests, This research results is that the dividends has weak cohesion with economic value added and it has no cohesion relation with return on assets.
Therefore, we can conclude that payment or nonpayment of dividends cannot indicate the suitable or unsuitable operation of company and increasing or decreasing of dividends also should not be indicate for fairness or unfairness investment in the company ,so utilization of dividends don't recommend to take the investment and credit decisions by investors and creditors.
