Testing information content influenced by investors Sentiment Behavior and Financial Reporting Quality

Purpose of the present study is to understand the relationship between investors sentiment behavior and financial reporting quality with the information content of financial statements of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. The data of 110 companies were collected from the databases of the Iranian Stock Exchange during the years 2009-2019 and analyzed in three stages using ANOVA- FRIEDMAN- OLS methods. In this study, the criteria for measuring the quality of financial reporting are the method of Jones, Dechow and Ball.From the OLS test results, it can be concluded that the information content determination coefficient has the highest value when the investors sentiment behavior is high and the financial reporting quality of the Jones model is average and it can also be stated that according to the test results ANOVA only in the model of financial reporting quality of Jones has the sentiment behavior of investors and the quality of financial reporting has an increasing impact on information content. The results of Friedman test also showed that there was a significant difference between different groups of investors sentiment behavior and financial reporting quality of Jones, Ball and Dechow.