فصلنامه مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی
پیاپی 60 (زمستان 1397)

An extensive literature examines managers’ incentives to smooth reported earnings using accruals in order to reduce price fluctuation of stocks in markets. Banks have additional incentives to engage in earnings management for a number of reasons, including tighter regulatory environment. They also have the ability to manage earnings using loan loss provisions (LLP). This paper examines earnings management using accruals – in particular, LLP - as the main accrual item in financial reporting of banks in the Iranian banking industry from 2005 to 2016. From previous studies, we expect that for banks with good (poor) current performance and expected poor (good) future performance, managers will save income for (borrow income from) the future by reducing (increasing) current income through LLP, especially discretionary LLP (DLLP). We also examine the effect of external financing, availability of other methods of earnings management like increasing (decreasing) non-operating income and capital requirements and also the relation of DLLP with risk. Our results indicate that bank managers do save earnings through DLLP in good times and borrow earnings using DLLP in bad times. We also find that bank risk is negatively associated with discretionary accruals.

Investigating the Relation Between Accruals and Operating Cash Flows and Effective Factors on this Relation can be useful for shareholders and capital market analysts. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Relation Between Accruals and Operating Cash Flows and Effective Timing and Economic Factors on this Relation. To do so, data of 107 stocks listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in a period of 11 years during 2005 to 2015 were analyzed. First of all, with utilization of times-series regression, the relationship between accruals and cash flows over time were examined. Afterwards, Effective Timing and Economic Factors that could affect this relation were considered utilizing Time-Series Regressions. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between Accruals and Operating Cash Flows showing drops from about -0/997 in 2005 to -0/347 in 2015. Furthermore, out of five potential factors, three of which including Timing-Related Cash Flow Shocks, increases in non-timing-related accrual recognition, as proxied by one-time and non-operating items and the growth of intangible-intensive industries play a role in the majority of the overall decline. In other words, the growth in the frequency and the magnitude of these items has given rise to a decrease in the negative accrual–cash flow relation and operational Cash Flow Shocks throughout the project.

In recent years, the capital market has played a significant role in the financing of the government and the private sector and provided a variety of tools for this purpose, mainly based on the asset backed securities and asset base securities, on the other hand, due to the requirement of the supervisory authority of the capital market to rate its debt securities before it is published and the need to enter the rating process of securities, it is necessary to have securities rating pattern Published in the capital market are designed and explained. Based on the above, the present study attempts to develop a credit rating model for asset backed Securities based on sukuk in the capital market. On one hand, the problems of executing Sukuk publishing, such as obligatory guarantee, are overcome, and on the other hand, the field of transparency of the market Financing and accelerating the financing process through this market will ultimately lead to a reduction in the cost of financing a firm.In this study, firstly, by studying the theoretical foundations of the publishing of asset-backed securities and other sources of information, such as guidelines issued by the Capital Markets Authority, the International Institutions and International Financial Institutions' Guidelines, the Primary Model The asset back rating was extracted, and then this model was developed for the purpose of obtaining consensus and Delphi Research methodology was subjected to an expert opinion survey and ultimately the final model of asset-backed securities ranking was presented.

In recent years, some managers have been smoothing income with real activities and accrual items in companies. They have been effecting on reported profits by utilization of earnings management instruments. Financial distress and bankruptcy are significant issues in the economics and accounting literature. Bankruptcy is happened when the firms cannot settle their debts, and bankruptcy prediction models try to prevent it. This study shows the effect of real earnings management on bankruptcy prediction models. Therefore, abnormal production costs, abnormal discretionary expenses and abnormal operational cash flow are considered as a real earnings management methods. Also modified Altman model is used as criteria for bankruptcy of the firms. The sample of this study is consisted of 202 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2009-2016. The hypothesis of this study has been examined by Multivariate Regression Model. The results showed that there is a significant relation between abnormal production costs and abnormal operational cash flows with bankruptcy prediction modelexcess stock returns.

In the present study, for the first time, we investigate the effect of the right of auditor's choice on the Accruals based Earnings management based on Glaser's choice theory. The findings of the empirical Reviews by the use of OLS regression on a sample of 173 active firms in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period from 2009 to 2018(1730 year-firm) show that accrual based Earnings management for Roach firms is more than unroach firm. The results of this research for the first time show that the process of selecting an auditor in Iran follows an opportunistic approach. Therefore, the findings of this study can help investors and the stock exchange organization of the country in the field of legislation to deal with opportunistic managers, such as access to stock options of the ROARCH Group. In this study, firstly, by studying the theoretical foundations of the publishing of asset-backed securities and other sources of information, such as guidelines issued by the Capital Markets Authority, the International Institutions and International Financial Institutions' Guidelines, the Primary Model The asset back rating was extracted, and then this model was developed for the purpose of obtaining consensus and Delphi Research methodology was subjected to an expert opinion survey and ultimately the final model of asset-backed securities ranking was presented.

According to the agency theory, in order to reduce the problems and agency conflicts, appropriate control mechanisms must be adopted so that the CEO moves in the interests of the shareholders and help shareholders to improve the level of transparency of financial reporting. One of these approaches is paying attention to the competitive motivations of the CEO in the form of strategies to reduce conflicts and costs arising from the formation of agency relationships. The purpose of this research is The Effect of Tournament Incentives on Financial Restatements According to the moderating role of the CEO Turnover and CEO Recruited New listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this study, 72 companies were considered during the period from 2010 to 2016. The hypotheses were tested through logistic regression. The results showed that the CEO's Tournament Incentives reduced the refinement of corporate financial statements. CEO tenure also revealed the impact of CEO's Tournament Incentives of the Firm restated the Financial Restatements in order to offset the negative. Ultimately, the CEO Recruited New from within the firm could help to strengthen the positive impact of the CEO's Tournament Incentives on Financial Restatements.

Investors need reliable information for decision making in order to make optimal economic decisions. This research investigates the effect of the modified auditor's opinion on the debt structure and excess stock returns of the companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange. The type of auditor's opinion has been considered as independent variable and debt structure and excess stock returns as dependent variables. The statistical sample included 102 companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2012-2016. The required data have been collected from the Tehran Stock Exchange Library, Compact CD of Rah Avard Novin and the Codal site. Data analysis has been performed using Eviews 9 software. In the study, a multivariate regression model and panel data method were used. To study the relationship between the mentioned variables, two hypotheses were developed. The results show that there is a negative and significant relationship between the modified auditor's opinion and debt structure and excess stock returns