However, the free cash flows scale is important for the financial health of the company, but it has also its own limitations. Moreover, it’s not immune from accounting tricks. Free cash flows can be considered as a measure of value for shareholders of listed companies on Tehran Stock Exchange. The managers of these companies have tended to use the earnings management for managing the free cash ...

1.0 INTRODUCTION In the past few decades, U.S. businesses have made large investments in information technology (IT), without decisive evidence about the value of such investments [1]. A natural question that arises in this context is whether managers have wasted organizational resources through large investments in IT. In his well-known free cash flow hypothesis, Michael Jensen argues that man...

journal of accounting advances (j.a.a) vol. 5, no. 1, 2013, ser. 64/3     extended abstract   monitoring role of auditing and corporate dividend payout policies   dr. v. khodadadi              s. hajizadeh               r. ghorbani shahid chamran university of ahvaz   introduction the aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between monitoring role of independent auditing and corporate ...

This study aims to investigate the impact of deviation from optimal level of cash holdings on adverse selection and moral hazard problems. The data set includes 106 listed firms of Tehran Stock Exchange during the period of 2005-2016 and both panel data and cross-sectional data multivariate regressions were utilized in different stage of analysis to test the hypotheses. According to the optimal...

This Study seeks to scrutinize whether surplus free cash flow is correlated with earnings management, if auditor size moderates this relationship. To do so, modified Jones discretionary accrual model (1995) and audit firm size are used as audit quality indicator to measure earnings management. The research hypotheses are built upon a sample of 103 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange d...

We model the interplay between cash and debt policies in the presence of financial constraints. While saving cash allows constrained firms to hedge against future cash flow shortfalls, reducing current debt – “saving borrowing capacity” – is a more effective way of securing investment in high cash flow states. This trade-off implies that constrained firms will allocate cash flows into cash hold...

cash is a critical source for business enterprises and creating balance between available cash and the required cash is the most important factor concerning the economic viability of a business enterprise. both of the companies that do not hold enough cash or hold too much cash, face too much problems. this paper investigates the impact of deviation from the estimated optimal cash level on firm...