The Effect of Free Cash Flow Agency Problem on Value Relevance of Earnings and Book value

The objective of this study in first stage studies the value relevance of earnings and book value، and in second stage study effect of Free Cash Flow agency problem on the value relevance of earnings and book value. The value relevance of earnings and book value are tested by Ohlson’s Price model (1995). To test Hypotheses of This study used a sample of 97 listed companies on Tehran Stock Exchange over a seven-year period (2004-2011). The results show that Book value per share for firms have Agency Problem and other firms are irrelevance value. Moreover result show that earning per share in presence or absent of agency problem of FCF is value relevance. The amount of value relevance of earning per share in firms with agency problems is lower. Thus FCF Agency problem have a negative effect on the value relevance of earnings.