University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
The Role of Financial Reporting Quality and Disclosure Quality in Increasing
Commercial Credit
1
20
FA
Abbas
Aflatooni
0000-0002-0573-376X
Assistant Prof., Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran
abbasaflatooni@gmail.com
Marziye
Nemati
MSc. Student in Accounting, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran
marziye.nemati70@gmail.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.249054.1007787
One way to increase business credit is to reduce the information asymmetry between buyer and seller. By increasing the financial reporting quality and disclosure quality, buyers can provide more information to their vendors on their financial position and performance, reduce the existing information asymmetry and thereby increase the received credit from sellers. This research investigates the relationship between financial reporting quality and disclosure quality with commercial credit in 146 firms listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2004-2016. Because the financial reporting quality and the disclosure quality are endogenous variables, to hypotheses testing, this paper uses the instrumental variable approach along with two stage least squares estimator (2SLS) and compares these results with the results of ordinary least squares estimator (OLS). The results of 2SLS approach show that the increase in financial reporting quality and disclosure quality increases the amount of commercial credit. However, the results of OLS approach show that disclosure quality (and not financial reporting quality) has a significant positive effect on commercial credit. <br />
Commercial credit,Disclosure Quality,Financial reporting quality,Instrumental variables,Two-stage least squares
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66298.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66298_1e88ce5cc75689211b4c2b9ddc0c152b.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
Investigating the Effect of Quality Accounting Information and Information Uncertainty
on the Investor Sentiment
21
50
FA
Mahdi
Baharmoghaddam
0000-0003-0502-061X
Associate professor accounting, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, kerman, Iran
mbahar.330@yahoo.com
Hossein
Jokar
0000-0003-0502-061X
MSc. accounting, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
abas.jokar1388@gmail.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.237351.1007647
<span>After the development of behavioral financial theory, the experimental literature in this domain has been exclusively oriented toward investigating the relationship between investors’ inclinations and variations of stocks' price. There hasn’t been any independent research on investigating factors contributing to behavioral mistakes of investors and how they can be moderated. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of accounting information quality and information uncertainty on investor sentiment. To achieve this goal, the data of 560 companies during the financial periods from 2009 to 2016 is used. The results of this study showed that accounting information quality and lack of confidence in information have a significant negative and significant positive relationship with investors’ inclinations. Furthermore, the results showed that increase in the quality of accounting information and reduction of confidence in information does reduce investors’ affective behavior in racing stocks. In addition, the results of analyses showed that investors are inclined more toward more optimistic predictions for stock price with lower information quality and confidence when investors are more optimistic.</span>
Behavioral Financial,Information accounting quality,Information uncertainty,Investor sentiment,Stock Price
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66299.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66299_64d0c6c05105ce142f01fd0306a76b4d.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
Audit Failure: Audit Report Lag and Moderating Role of Family Ownership
51
70
FA
Fakhroddin
Mohammadrezaei
0000-0001-9623-7317
Assistant Prof. of Accounting, Faculty of Financial Sciences, Kharazmi University,
Tehran, Iran
fakhroddin.mr@gmail.com
Mohsen
Tanani
null
Assistant Prof. of Accounting, Faculty of Financial Sciences, Kharazmi University,
Tehran, Iran
m.tanani@khu.ac.ir
Abolfazl
Aliabadi
MSc. Student of Accounting, Faculty of Financial Sciences, Kharazmi University,
Tehran, Iran
aliabadi_abolfazl@yahoo.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.252507.1007839
Restatements’ of financial statements and consequently audit failures are surprisingly high in Iran and audit report lag (ARL) is also falling sharply. Although there are studies about determinations of audit failure, the role of ARL in audit failure by taking into account the possible moderating role of family ownership has not been investigated.One of the factors that affects auditors’ ability in detecting breaches in clients’ financial statements is audit effort. Hence, it can be predicted that ARL, as a surrogate of audit effort, has a negative relation with audit failure. The results of multivariate analysis reveal that ARL has a negative and significant relation with Type II audit failure, but there is no significant association between ARL and Type I audit failure. Moreover, family ownership is positively associated with Type I audit failure and it has an insignificant relation with Type II audit failure. Finally our findings show that family ownership does not moderate the relation between ARL and Type II audit failure.
Audit error type I,Audit error type II,Audit report lag,Family ownership,Restatements’ of financial statements
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66300.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66300_fc89e9034f49ef42ebbb412a3654e0db.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
The Role of Auditor's Psychological Empowerment in Observance of the Code of Professional Conduct: An Emphasis on Moderating Role of Organizational Status and Job Experience
71
90
FA
mohammad hossein
safarzadeh
0000-0003-0767-5193
assistant professor in accounting- shahid beheshti university
hosein470@gmail.com
kazem
kazemi
MSc. in Accounting, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
kazemkazemi1367@gmail.com
aliasghar
dehghanisaadi
MSc. In Accounting, Faculty of Economic and Management, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
ira.dehghani@gmail.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.233467.1007606
The process of capital allocation is based on the information provided through financial reporting. In this context, auditing is regarded as a tool for improving the quality of financial statements. Hence, professional ethics and codes are necessary for auditors so they can perform their duties in a regular manner. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the role of auditors' psychological empowerment on observance of the code of professional ethics with emphasis on the moderating role of organizational status and job experience. Research data is gathered thorough 288 online questionnaires which are distributed to those auditors that work for audit institutions of Iranian association of certificate public accountants. The results suggest that psychological empowerment in the workplace can have a significant impact on the observance of code of professional conduct. Also, job experience could have act as a moderating variable on the relationship between psychological empowerment and observance of code of professional conduct.
Codes of Professional Conduct,Independent Auditors,Psychological Empowerment,Structural Equation Modeling (Path Analysis)
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66301.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66301_fd7974185e8d9948fc55d9a4ff5c35a5.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
The Information content of Financial Statements in the Strengthening of Economic Sanctions
Imposition on Iran
91
112
FA
Mehdi
Arabi
6037991932101821
Department of accounting, Mahshahr Branch, islamic azad university, Mahshahr, Iran
mehdiarabi20@yahoo.com
Mehdi
Taghavi
Prof. of Economics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
m.taghavi@atu.ac.ir
Ramazanali
Royayee
d
dr.royayee@gmail.com
Bahman
Banimahd
Associate Prof. of Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran
dr.banimahd@gmail.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.234823.1007626
Economic and political structures in the capital market pressures can affect managers, auditors and investors behavior in the face of the financial reporting. One of the best examples of political and macroeconomic actions in recent years is the economic sanctions against Iran. Companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange also inevitably have been influenced by the pressures of economic sanctions against Iran. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of economic sanctions on the Information content of financial statements. The data has been analyzed using a sample of 165 listed firms in the Tehran Stock Exchange during from 2001 to 2014 and panel data regression models. The results show that the information content of financial statements reduced in the period of economic sanctions. Also, reduction in the financial information content of loss-making companies and firms with high earnings management during the period of intensifying economic sanctions has been more than reduction in other companies.
Earnings management,Firm with losses,Information content of financial statements,Political Economy Theory,Strengthening of Economic Sanctions
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66302.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66302_122961cb7d04c5e0da2b53505d104bfe.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
The Behavior of Earnings Quality in Different Business Cycles Using Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) Model
113
134
FA
Nasrin
Mohamadi Asl
MSc. in Accounting, Urmia University, West Azerbaijan, Urmia, Iran
nasrinmohamadi69@yahoo.com
Gholamreza
Mansourfar
0000-0002-3076-0241
Associate Prof. Accounting Dept. Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
mansour325@yahoo.com
Kioumars
Shahbazi
Economics Dept, Faculty of Economics and Management, Urmia, Iran
k.shahbazi@urmia.ac.ir
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.240369.1007681
This paper investigates the threshold effects of business cycles on earnings quality for the period of 2005 to 2015, using Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model as one of the most prominent regime-switching models. For this end, accruals quality and earnings smoothing are used as measures of earnings quality, and sales growth as transition variable. The linearity test results indicate nonlinear relationship among variables under consideration. Moreover, considering one transition function and one threshold parameter, as a two regime model, is sufficient to specification the nonlinear relationship among variables. The results indicate that in the first regime, business cycles have a negative impact on both earnings smoothing and accruals quality, and beyond threshold value, in the second regime, the impact of business cycles is positive. Therefore business cycles have played an important role on the earnings quality.
Accruals quality,Business Cycles,Earnings Quality,Earnings smoothing,Threshold effect
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66303.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66303_ffcef7985c50ce866220db0406adcf6d.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
A Survey on Key Components of Internal Audit
135
158
FA
Bita
Mashayekhi
0000-0003-4413-9939
Associate Prof. in Accounting Faculty of Management University of Tehran, Iran
mashaykhi@ut.ac.ir
Alemeh
Yazdanian
Ph.D. Candidate of Accounting, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
almyazdanian66@gmail.com
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.249557.1007794
Literature shows that a great number of research about different areas of internal audit have been accomplished; however, there is no any framework for the key elements of the internal audit neither in Iran nor in other countries. In this research, to determine the key components of the internal audit, the literature is assessed utilizing the content analysis; then the key elements of the internal audit are classified into some concepts and factors. Ultimately, in order to validate these concepts and factors, the Delphi Method is employed to evaluate the opinions of internal audit experts and professionals. The results show five concepts, including key features of the IAF, managing the internal audit activity, services and role of IAF, professional practices and organizational relationship, and 17 other key factors like competence, interactions with board, audit committee and senior management (management support), outsourcing, employee management, assurance and consulting services, IAF performance evaluation (quality assurance and improvement program), organizational independence, and so forth which are entirely verified by internal audit experts and professionals. This framework relying on the related literature in the field of internal audit could be contributory in describing variables for future studies.
Content analysis,Delphi method,Internal audit,Key concepts and factors of internal audit
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66304.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66304_2a6fb0fcb8d7423d3d84b09e9b432b1b.pdf
University of Tehran
Accounting and Auditing Review
2645-8020
2645-8039
25
1
2018
05
22
A Review of Audit Research in Iran
159
179
FA
Samira
Nateghi
MSc. in Accounting, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
samiranateghi@yahoo.com
kaveh
Mehrani
Associate Prof. in Accounting, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
kmehrani@ut.ac.ir
Arash
Tahriri
Associate Prof. in Accounting, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
arashtahriri@ut.ac.ir
10.22059/acctgrev.2018.248795.1007782
The main purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive picture of the current status of audit research in Iran. In addition, this study seeks to present more clear directions about the research opportunities by examining the trends of research themes overtime as well as identifying research areas which have been less considered by researchers. This paper reviews 457 audit research articles published in 16 accounting and auditing scientific journals as well as publications of economic, management and financial groups from 1992 to autumn of 2017. In order to make a literature review map, the conceptual framework of the articles was examined and independent and dependent variables were identified. Based on the matrix of relations examined in the papers, a comprehensive conceptual framework of audit research in Iran was obtained and 11 research areas were identified along with the frequency of studied relationships in each area. More than 60% of the research has used the archival method and 33% of the research has used the survey method. Audit quality has been a major part of past studies and 70 percent of the research conducted in this area has examined the consequences of audit quality. After audit quality, audit fees and auditors' opinions are ranked second and third. Professional Skepticism, judgment and decision making, fraud, ethics, and professional conduct have been less considered by researchers.
Auditing,Future research directions,Narrative review,Research areas,Review study
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66305.html
https://acctgrev.ut.ac.ir/article_66305_158bc0e502346cafcd6cf8c9273d560a.pdf