جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « حاکمیت شرکتی » در نشریات گروه « مالی »

The ultimate goal of corporate governance is to achieve the promotion of fairness, transparency, accountability, and compliance with the rights of shareholders in companies and economic enterprises. However, there are doubts about its success rate in achieving the aforementioned goals. The disclosure of more and periodic information will reduce the cost of capital and the cost of transactions, reduce the error in profit forecasts, or demand more than usual for a company's bonds. Managers can pursue the goal of maximizing shareholders' wealth by managing variables (such as transparency) in the financial structure. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of companies using the mediating variable of transparency. In this study, using a meta-analysis approach, the impact of transparency on corporate governance and its effect on financial performance is investigated. A hypothesis about the effect of corporate governance on the mediating variable of transparency and a hypothesis about the effect of the mentioned variable on financial performance were proposed and 20 articles including a total of 81 effect sizes (of type r) whose publication dates were between 2003 and 2018 were studied. If the effect size was divergent, the random effects method was used, and for convergent cases, the fixed effects method was used to calculate the effect size. In addition to testing each hypothesis, after determining the size of the cumulative effect, a robustness test was performed and analyzed for each hypothesis. The results indicated that corporate governance has no effect on transparency, but the robustness test showed that the mechanisms of corporate governance, including the independence of the board of directors, and the dual role of the CEO and the audit committee, have a significant effect on transparency. In addition, the results show the significant impact of transparency on financial performance.

In recent years, the discussion of corporate governance has become one of the topics of professional and scientific research. In previous studies, the direct impact of corporate governance on the company's financial performance has been measured (Che Haat et al., 2008; Mardnly et al., 2018; Saidat et al., 2019). Corporate governance is expected to improve financial performance not only directly but also through the mediating effect of transparency. Corporate governance may affect the level of corporate disclosure, especially when the board of directors manages the information disclosed in annual reports (Gibbins et al., 1990). Centralized decision-making power (such as the same role of the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors) hinders the possibility of monitoring various aspects, including disclosure policies, due to the threat to the independence of the board of directors (Carver, 1990; Fama & Jensen, 1983). A good corporate governance system requires periodic, transparent, and comparable information reporting, especially information related to financial, managerial, and ownership issues of the company. Transparency, in terms of its role in reducing information asymmetry, is the preferred area for shareholders to control managers because it reduces risk and consequently improves performance. Therefore, the first hypothesis was formulated as follows:Hypothesis 1: Corporate governance affects the transparency of firms.
Reducing information asymmetry from the perspective of agency theory reduces the tendency to selfishness, and from the perspective of investment, it reduces risk and expected return. Both of these aspects make analysts expect that information disclosure can improve the firm's financial performance. Therefore, a high level of transparency has a positive effect on the company's performance. Accordingly, information disclosure such as periodical reports can reduce capital costs and information asymmetry (Lang & Lundholm, 1999). Therefore, the second hypothesis was formulated as follows:Hypothesis 2: Transparency has an effect on the financial performance of economic enterprises.

After reviewing various scientific sources, seven steps were selected for the meta-analysis (Glass et al., 1981; Hunter & Schmidt, 2004; Kohli & Devaraj, 2003; Rosenthal, 2001). The first step is to determine the thematic framework. The second step is to specify the keywords, determine the databases and search for studies, the third step is to screen the searched articles according to one of the research hypotheses, to report the effect size and the type of correlational study. The fourth step is to collect the data from the searched articles. The fifth step was to calculate the effect size for each member of the sample (each test). The sixth step was to calculate the common effect size for each hypothesis. Finally, in the seventh step, the homogeneity of the effect size was calculated for each hypothesis (each group of effect sizes).
If the within-group effect sizes are convergent (zero variance hypothesis is not rejected), it means that there is a common effect size that all sample tests have measured; and the fixed effects method is used to calculate the cumulative effect size. If the effect sizes within the group are divergent (zero variance hypothesis is rejected), it means that there are different effect sizes, one of which has been calculated in each sample of the tests; and the random effects method was used to calculate the cumulative effect size.

In this section, the robustness tests performed to test the hypotheses and comment on the confirmation or disconfirmation of each of the hypotheses. In both hypotheses, the common effect size is divergent, that is, it is related to a group of different effect sizes with high deviation, and the random effects method is the basis for calculating the common effect size. The results indicated the rejection of the null hypothesis related to the second hypothesis. In other words, the effect of transparency on financial performance is confirmed, but the effect of corporate governance on transparency is rejected. The robustness test in the first hypothesis shows the lack of influence of corporate governance on transparency in developed and developing countries. There is no significant relationship between corporate governance and transparency in different time periods, except for the years 2005-2009. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the independent variable of the board of directors and transparency. The CEO duality variable has a negative and significant effect, board size has a positive and significant effect at the 5% level, and the audit committee has a positive and significant effect on transparency. The indicators of concentration of ownership, the number of board meetings, and gender diversity in the board of directors have not been tested because the sample number is less than 5.
In the validation of the second hypothesis, the results show no significant effect between transparency and financial performance in developed countries. In the time interval of 2015-2019, there is a significant and positive effect between transparency and financial performance, and the results of other periods have not been tested because the number of samples is less than 5. In the financial performance section, a significant and positive effect was observed between transparency and ROA and ROE. No significant effect was found between transparency and Tobin's Q. The results of other indicators were not tested because the number of samples was less than 5.

The main purpose of this study is to meta-analyze the indirect effect of corporate governance on the financial performance of companies using the mediating variable of transparency. In the first hypothesis, the relationship between transparency and corporate governance was tested. The results of the current study did not show a significant effect between corporate governance and transparency due to the overlap of various corporate governance indicators. The study of various indicators of corporate governance shows a significant and positive relationship between the independence of the board of directors and transparency, the audit committee and transparency, and a significant and negative relationship between the duality of the CEO and transparency. In the second hypothesis, the relationship between transparency and financial performance has been tested. The results show a significant and positive impact on the company's financial performance. The robustness test shows that this effect is quite evident in the studies studied in recent years. The high level of information disclosure helps the stakeholders in improving the quality of their decision-making.
The above results, like any other research, may be criticized due to the researchers’ limited access to all published empirical studies, the time limit of studying past articles and looking at them retrospectively, the meta-analytic nature of this study, and the dependence on meta-analysis results on past experimental studies. However, due to the wide range of companies that support the results, the validity of the empirical studies collected and the robustness check performed are robust enough to be the basis for decision-making and policy-making for managers, policymakers, and investors. Therefore, it is suggested to the shareholders to emphasize the independence of the board of directors and the audit committee to improve the financial performance, through the index of the audit committee, control the level of transparency, and provide the basis for the improvement of the financial performance, through the indicators of the independence of the board of directors and the duality of the CEO to create the context of increasing the transparency of the company and thus improving the financial performance, pay enough attention to the concentration of ownership, the duality of the CEO, the size of the board of directors, and the number of board meetings in the development of the corporate governance system because it is a good basis for optimizing transparency and improving financial performance.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the increase in financing restrictions of companies has an effect on their financing strategies. Based on this, the strategies of company managers for financing were formulated in the form of their desire to finance internally instead of externally and through transactions with related parties and financing from debt instead of issuing shares in the capital market. In addition, this research, emphasizing the role of corporate governance and its effect on defined relationships, seeks to provide a reasonable answer in relation to the effect of corporate governance on reducing the adverse effect of financing restrictions on the financing strategies of companies. In this regard, the data of 150 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2015-2019 were selected, and according to the Kaplan/Zengales indices as a measure of supplier criteria governing the companies, research hypotheses were examined. The results of this study showed that financing restrictions have a negative and significant relationship with transactions with related parties and a positive and significant relationship with capital structure. In addition, corporate governance only has a moderating effect on the relationship between financing constraints and capital structure.

This research examines The Role of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on the Relationship Between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance (Evidence of Environmental, Social and Governance performance of Companies Listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange); The Time Frame of this Research is 2017-2021; The Statistical Population of this Research is all the Companies Accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange, 105 Companies were selected by Systematic Removal method. The Data of the Research was Extracted and Measured from the Financial Statements included in the Stock Exchange Sites; then, Statistical Regression Analysis was Performed Based on Panel Data. According to the Analysis, the Result of the First Hypothesis Showed that there is a Positive and Significant Relationship between the Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance. The Result of the Second Hypothesis indicated that there is a Positive and Significant Relationship between the Corporate Social Responsibility and Intellectual Capital. Finally, in the Third Hypothesis, the Findings indicated that the Mediating role of Intellectual Capital on the Relationship between the Corporate Social Responsibility and financial performance is positive and significant.

The purpose of the research is to design a mechanism to increase the participation of retail shareholders in the management of enterprises. Through this increase, the improvement of corporate governance, the reduction of information asymmetry and the increase of the awareness of retail shareholders happen. After library studies, this research presented a model of participation of retail shareholders in the management of listed companies through a questionnaire and a survey of experts and retail shareholders, and the model was confirmed through the fuzzy Delphi method. In the proposed model, retail shareholders can buy and sell their voting rights close to the annual meeting through a SPC. Therefore, during this process, the shareholders who want to have the power to exercise more votes in the annual meeting, buy the voting rights of other retail shareholders. In addition, they are able to choose a representative from among themselves to be on the company's board of directors by using the platform provided in the proposed model through their voting coalition. By implementing such a mechanism, it will be possible to obtain 511 board seats by retail shareholders in listed companies. The results of the research showed that the proposed model will increase the motivation of retail shareholders to participate in meetings, increase the awareness of shareholders and improve transparency.

In general, good and appropriate corporate governance in banks is considered one of the most important tools to prevent fraud and corruption. Investigations indicate that in various countries, despite the weakness of corporate governance, corruption and financial fraud have increased, and as a result, the performance of banks has decreased. On the other hand, the issue of corporate governance has attracted the attention of economic and accounting professionals in recent decades, and in many countries, strict regulations have been established to improve corporate governance in Islamic banking. The question raised in the present study is whether it is possible to maintain and improve the financial performance of Iranian banks and reduce fraud by using corporate governance procedures. This article is compiled with the aim of reviewing the theoretical foundations and existing research literature on good corporate governance and its role in improving performance and reducing fraud in Islamic banking. The research method is based on promotion and dissemination as well as summarizing and inferring the topics and ideas of other researchers. In this article, an attempt is made to present the theoretical and scientific foundations of corporate governance, performance improvement, fraud and the importance of the Sharia Supervisory Board. Surveys indicate that interest-free banking requires a regulatory structure and corporate governance, and the creation of a suitable and strong corporate governance mechanism will probably motivate banks to participate in economic activities and financing in a more appropriate way. Also, the implementation of corporate governance is a solution to prevent fraud and finally, corporate governance significantly affects the performance of Islamic banks.

Realizing the basic principles of Islamic banking and implementing the basic rules and regulations of conventional banking make an absolute generality and peculiarity relationship, because Islamic banking is rooted in human nature and ethics, and its principles are not separated from those of reason and moral rules accepted by all the involved thinkers. The main question is what principles the legal system of governance fitting with Islamic banking and the goals of the Holy Sharia should include. The purpose of this article is to present the role of governance integrity in the realization of real Islamic banking, focusing on the banking system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Malaysia. Descriptive analysis and that of the findings and concepts have been done with qualitative content analysis method through library information collection. According to the selected hypothesis, all conventional banking regulations that are to protect the rights of individuals and morals should be applied. Failure to apply prior and subsequent desirable supervision by the competent institutions mentioned in the constitution and other laws resulting in the divergence of Islamic banking governance reference laws and executive instructions, excluding some institutions from supervision by the laws approved by the governing bodies, violation of the decrees issued by the regulatory body about banking and lacking in the required expertise in Islamic banking knowledge are among the factors that prevent the implementation of true Islamic banking based on ethics in the society. It is, therefore,  suggested that governments and international organizations work out some agreements on how to apply the legal system related to supervision and compliance in common banking issues.

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between corporate governance and capital formation using the financial development channel. According to the investigations, it was found that the direct impact of corporate governance on capital formation is unclear. The analysis of the data showed that corporate governance through the financial development channel can have an effect on capital formation, which, of course, is different in countries, and the reason for that is the different level of development of countries in attracting capital and investors. In this study, the data of 98 countries, including 67 countries in which investor protection is strong and 31 countries in which investor protection is weak during the years 2005-2020, were used in the form of Panel-GMM method. The results of the surveys showed that corporate governance in countries with a low level of investor protection has a positive and significant effect on capital formation, and improving corporate governance improves capital formation. But this relationship has not been significant for countries with a high level of investor protection. Also, financial development in both groups of countries had a positive and significant impact on capital formation, but its impact was greater in countries with weak support. Also, the results of the financial development survey in more detail showed that the financial development of markets improves capital formation in countries; But the financial development of institutions does not affect the improvement of capital formation.

Concurrent equity return is a relatively new field in financial and economic research that is closely related to economic development, financial market stability, and market efficiency .The overall purpose of this study is to investigate the role of corporate governance adjustment on the interaction of free cash flows and growth opportunities in synchronizing stock returns in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The statistical population of this study is the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange from 2006 to 2017. The research method used in this research is applied in terms of purpose and correlation or consistency in terms of method and nature. The test results of the hypotheses show the quality of corporate governance on the interaction between annual stock returns , Interaction between ownership concentration, transaction turnover and stock return synchronization A significant effect But the quality of corporate governance depends on the interaction between the life of the company, the size of the company, the growth of the company, Liquidity and synchronization of stock returns It has no significant effect.

Although banks and financial institutions always face problems and challenges during their activities for various reasons, the main reasons for banking problems are the lack of standards, regulations and single requirements in the world banking industry, lack of attention to risk management and non-compliance with developments. It has been economic and environmental. Bank performance and risk control in banks is one of the most important issues in the banking sector. Considering the importance of bank performance and risk control and the necessity of its correctness, the present research examines the impact of risk tolerance as well as the effects of capital adequacy and corporate governance on Iranian banks. The results of this research, with a linear regression model It has been shown that credit, operational, liquidity and market risks have a significant impact on the bank's performance, and the higher the capital adequacy, the better the bank's performance, and in addition, Paying attention to corporate governance has a significant impact on the bank's performance

Our country is among developing countries which represent interesting in regard to corporate governance mechanisms, because operating firms in them don't follow usual norms and incomplete commodity markets, managerial intellectual capital is prolific in those countries. Therefore, our research intends to examine the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. A sample consists of 1,276 company-year observations (for 116 companies during 11 years from- 2011 to 2021. The data is extracted from audited financial statements and macroeconomic indicators are obtained from international databases (for example: The World Bank). Both categories of book value (return and asset and return on equity) and market value (Q-Tobin) performance indicators are used in this research to increase result credibility . Our findings show no relationship between board size and performance indicators (both market based and booked value based). Other findings implicate positive relationship between non-executive boards and performance. Finally, research results suggest negative adjustments in presence of institutional macroeconomic factors, some economic and institutional factors had negative adjustment in presence of ROA and ROE. Using marketbased proxy for company performance provided similar results regarding negative adjustment of institutional macroeconomic factors.

In general, good and appropriate corporate governance in banks is considered one of the most important tools to prevent fraud and corruption. Investigations indicate that in various countries, despite the weakness of corporate governance, corruption and financial fraud have increased, and as a result, the performance of banks has decreased. On the other hand, the issue of corporate governance has attracted the attention of economic and accounting professionals in recent decades, and in many countries, strict regulations have been established to improve corporate governance in Islamic banking. The question raised in the present study is whether it is possible to maintain and improve the financial performance of Iranian banks and reduce fraud by using corporate governance procedures. This article is compiled with the aim of reviewing the theoretical foundations and existing research literature on good corporate governance and its role in improving performance and reducing fraud in Islamic banking. The research method is based on promotion and dissemination as well as summarizing and inferring the topics and ideas of other researchers. In this article, an attempt is made to present the theoretical and scientific foundations of corporate governance, performance improvement, fraud and the importance of the Sharia Supervisory Board. Surveys indicate that interest-free banking requires a regulatory structure and corporate governance, and the creation of a suitable and strong corporate governance mechanism will probably motivate banks to participate in economic activities and financing in a more appropriate way. Also, the implementation of corporate governance is a solution to prevent fraud and finally, corporate governance significantly affects the performance of Islamic banks.

Realizing the basic principles of Islamic banking and implementing the basic rules and regulations of conventional banking make an absolute generality and peculiarity relationship, because Islamic banking is rooted in human nature and ethics, and its principles are not separated from those of reason and moral rules accepted by all the involved thinkers. The main question is what principles the legal system of governance fitting with Islamic banking and the goals of the Holy Sharia should include. The purpose of this article is to present the role of governance integrity in the realization of real Islamic banking, focusing on the banking system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Malaysia. Descriptive analysis and that of the findings and concepts have been done with qualitative content analysis method through library information collection. According to the selected hypothesis, all conventional banking regulations that are to protect the rights of individuals and morals should be applied. Failure to apply prior and subsequent desirable supervision by the competent institutions mentioned in the constitution and other laws resulting in the divergence of Islamic banking governance reference laws and executive instructions, excluding some institutions from supervision by the laws approved by the governing bodies, violation of the decrees issued by the regulatory body about banking and lacking in the required expertise in Islamic banking knowledge are among the factors that prevent the implementation of true Islamic banking based on ethics in the society. It is, therefore, suggested that governments and international organizations work out some agreements on how to apply the legal system related to supervision and compliance in common banking issues.

Improving the economic and business environment is the most important factor in preventing bankruptcy, therefor, Artificial intelligence uses to predict the bankruptcy of companies in the future. In this study, companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange over a period of 10 years in terms of bankruptcy localized model of Kurdistani-Tatli based on the Altman model were examined and companies were identified as bankrupt and healthy. Research data were collected, categorized and refined using secondary data extracted from financial statements and through the database of the Exchange Organization and the Central Bank.The models used to evaluate the data and predict the bankruptcy of companies are artificial intelligence models . Artificial neural network, combination of neural network and genetic algorithm and the K-nearest neighbor method has been used. They were also compared in terms of prediction accuracy. The output of the models indicates that the addition of corporate governance indicators to the financial ratios indicators has not improved the results. Therefore, financial ratios alone are sufficient for predicting and determining bankruptcy. The proposed model of this research based on accuracy is a combined model of neural network and genetic algorithm that has the highest accuracy. Genetic algorithm improves the optimal results of the neural network and provides a more optimal answer.

Today, with the widespread changes in the global economy, business risks and opportunities are constantly changing. therefore, companies need procedures to identify and evaluate, manage and monitor their business risks and opportunities. according to the conditions mentioned the key question is how should a company take effective steps to manage the risks and opportunities in their business in order to maximize value for them? enterprise risk management is created to answer the needs of organizations about this matter and it has been the focus of business and academic community in recent decades. the concept of enterprise risk management (ERM) is a systematic approach to identifying, evaluating, prioritizing and controlling risks and their overall impact on the whole company and with a holistic view. the main purpose of this research is to extract and group the components and dimensions of corporate risk management and identify the requirements and contexts for its effective implementation in the agricultural conversion industries using the Meta-synthesis method. the tool of this review is previous documentation, which comprises a total of 60 studies and the method of data analysis is open coding. the results show that 204 identified codes can be classified into 33 main dimensions.

Researchers have often examined corruption based on perceptual criteria and nationally. The innovation of this research was to take the two advantages of objective documentation and local dimensions in defining the corruption index. This study used a local and objective variable of corruption by comparing the sample data consisting of the selected companies of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) during the period of 2006-2013 in regions with high and low corruptions. Analysis of the financial return of firms at the regional level showed that the existence of corruption at the provincial level increased Return on Assets (ROA) and Tobin’s Q. This study also examined the relationship between corruption, corporate governance, and firm financial return by using the panel data method. The results revealed the positive effect of corruption on the firm’s ROA and Tobin’s Q, while board independence and ownership concentration did not have a significant relationship with ROA and Tobin’s Q.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate governance on the relationship between managerial ability and lack of information transparency in listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. Research hypotheses based on the 106 companies during a 9-year period from 2010 to 2018 were tested using multivariate regression models. Demerjian & et al. (2012) model was used to measure management ability and to calculate the corporate opacity, the criteria of the index rate of lack of transparency in company information and discretionary accrual items were used. The results show that there is a negative significant relationship between managerial ability and lack of transparency of company information. Also, the CEO duality has a negative impact on the relationship between managerial ability and lack of transparency of company information (in particular, discretionary accrual items). Finally, institutional shareholders have a negative effect on the relationship between managerial ability and lack of transparency of company information (the index rate of lack of transparency in company information and discretionary accrual items).

The money production factory in every country is the central bank and the quantity and quality of this production depend only on the rationality and ethics of policymakers and bankers. The central bank can be considered as one of the institutions of political economy that has a close relationship with democracy. According to the relations governing the election of the president, also, one of the responsibilities that the people entrust to the head of state is to protect the assets of the people and the country. When the major part of these assets through the central bank channel undergoes fundamental changes on a large scale, improving the structure of the central bank is inevitable to create financial stability in the country. The main goal of this article is to reach a suitable governance framework in the central banking of Iran by using the corporate governance methodology. In order to institutionalize corporate governance in the central bank, first of all, people should be accepted as the main owners of this institution. The people who have entrusted this right to their elected officials whom are expected to observe the principles of religious democracy, should be accepted as the main owners of this institution. Who have entrusted this right to their elected officials with the principles of religious democracy. In the form of a new system of accountability, the people's elected officials should be responsible for the most important mission of the central bank, i.e. financial stability and maintaining the value of the national currency, and provide the structure for its realization. In order to design a new structure in the banking system of the country, it is necessary to comply with these issues: improving the pillar of the General Assembly, changing the executive role of the board of directors, defining a specific mission for the pillar of the Money and Credit Council, the necessity of creating a pillar of the Supreme Council of  the Banks, improving financial discipline and independence of the maintaining the financial stability and the value of the national currency Central and operating banks.

The purpose of this study is to develop a model for supporting micro-investors in the Iranian capital market with emphasis on financial institutions. The faculty of the university and the people working in the capital market supervisory pillars, by using the research method of grounded theorizing and analyzing the data obtained from the interview, the effective factors on protecting the rights of investors have been studied. Also, using open, central and selective coding, concepts, categories, characteristics and dimensions of categories were extracted and the mentioned categories were classified into causal conditions, strategies, intervening conditions, contextual conditions and finally consequences. The obtained model was approved after refinement by presenting to five faculty members, four of whom had not previously participated in the interview. The results of this study showed that factors such as financial support, legal support, media support, educational support, cultural support, information transparency support, investor accountability support, regulatory support, reporting transparency support, quality support Accounting and corporate governance can build trust in the capital market and encourage small investors to operate in the capital market.

In the past decade, In order to develop corporate governance in Iran, regulatory authorities such as the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) and the Securities & Exchange Organization (SEO) have mandated establishment of Audit Committee(AC) in companies and credit institutions through issuing guidelines and requirements. Due to immaturity of AC in Iran, there are many obstacles and challenges in front of it and on the other hand, many aspects of AC, including the challenges of its implementation in Iran, are less explained. Many aspects of the AC in Iran, including the Audit Committee Effectiveness (ACE) and it's obstacles and barriers, have not been clarified yet. Also, limited areas of the Audit Committee’s Challenges (ACC) and barriers have been considered in previous research. In order to explain and describe the various aspects of ACC and it’ s improvement strategies, by using the qualitative approach and Grounded Theory(GT), AC multi-stakeholders were studied for the first time in Iran. In this regard, 34 Participants were interviewed. In addition, 31 papers and seminars which published in Iranian professional magazines that reflect the viewpoints of the above-mentioned stakeholders were also used and analyzed. The data were analyzed by using the open coding, axial coding & selective coding approach that are specific to the GT and major categories, categories, and subcategories (concepts) were extracted. The ACC model as an emerged theory was designed. The model incorporates multidimensional of ACC.

This study intends to investigate the role of Religious Months on the relationship between Investor Sentiment and The Risk Of Crashing Stock Prices by emphasizing the role of corporate governance. The specific Religious Months in this study include holy months of Ramadan and Muharram. In this study, variables in corporate governance include The CEO tenure, CEO duality, board independence, board ownership, audit firm size, and institutional investors’ ownership. The research sample consists of 132 companies observed over a period extending from 14/8/1392 in Solar Hijri calendar (SH) (or 1/1/1435 or first of month of Muharram in Islamic calendar (AH)) to 19/6/1397 in Solar Hijri calendar (SH) (or 29/12/1439 or last day in month of Dhu al-Hijjah in Islamic calendar (AH)). In this study, Multivariate Regression Model for panel data was used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The research results indicate a significant difference between Investor Sentiment, on one hand, and stock returns on the other hand during Islamic months of Ramadan and Muharram compared to other months. Also, corporate governance was found to have a significant impact on the relationship between investor sentiment and stock returns. In other words, in case of companies with higher corporate governance levels, investor sentiment tends to have a more favorable impact on stock returns.