Board of director's attitudes and financing methods relation of listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange

The goal of this research is to investigate the relation between board of directors’ attitudes and financing methods of listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange. This research population includes 65 listed companies of Tehran Stock Exchange during 2004-2011. The multivariate linear regression analysis is used to hypotheses testing. Results of research hypotheses testing indicate that there is a significant negative relation between the board of directors’ size and internal financing. Moreover, there is a significant negative relation between board of directors’ independency and the board of directors’ ownership percent with external financing either. On the other hand, research results show that there is significant statistical relation between board of director independency and the board of directors’ ownership percent with external financing and a similar relation between the board of directors’ size and external financing. Results of control variables demonstrate that there is a significant positive relation between firm size and internal financing and a significant negative relation between firm life time and financial leverage with internal financing. Also, results show that there is a significant positive relation between the firm size, firm life time and financial leverage with external financing.