Ali Rahmani

Alzahra University · Accounting

Maturity models (MMs) are used as a reference framework in various fields. In the public sector (PS), the principles of good governance have necessitated an evolution in financial reporting. This study aimed to design a model of accounting and financial maturity for PS reporting units. This study has a mixed-methods design. The initial MM was desig...

Purpose This study aims to highlight the accuracy, performance and selection of the IPO valuation methods in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s emerging market. Design/methodology/approach The authors performed accurate ex ante evaluations based on a pre-IPO data set obtained from valuation institutions. This study considered valuation methods through...

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate weak-form market efficiency using static (fixed-coefficient models) & dynamic (time-varying models) models. Studying efficient market hypothesis (EMH) in emerging markets is an important subject among many researchers, due to many reasons mostly market efficiency in these markets is on doubts, it...

Implementing enterprise risk management (ERM) is one of the important solutions in reducing the uncertainty and survival of companies. The ERM is very important due to the varying conditions of Iran's business environment as well as the role of manufacturing companies in its prosperity and economic growth. Therefore, the present study aims to explo...

NImplementation of IFRS affects almost all aspects of an organization, including; financial reporting systems, internal controls, tax, management reward system, liquidity management and transparency. Insurance companies not only secure economic activities and help national deposits by life insurance, but also they transfer policies with foreign ins...

با توجه به نقش مهم مشتقات مالی در اقتصاد ، هدف این پژوهش شناسایی چالشهای افشای اطلاعات در ارتباط با ابزارهای مشتقه در محیط گزارشگری ایران و طبق چارچوب استانداردهای بین المللی گزارشگری مالی است. این پژوهش با استفاده از روش تحلیل محتوای کیفی برای تحلیل داده های حاصل از مصاحبه با ۱۵ نفر از خبرگان حسابرسی، حسابداری و بازار سرمایه ایران، چالشهای افشای ا...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate semi-strong market efficiency through review of the relation between increase or decrease of stock return and financial statement information. Using sixty six rolling panel-logit models & accounting variables, we estimate increase or decrease of each firm's stock return as a Pr summary amount and create a he...

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the outlook of auditors on key auditing matters according to ISA 701. Responses to questionnaires distributed among members of the CPA, indicate that evaluations made by auditors of the basic assumptions that form the basis for recognition and disclosure of financial statement items in the audit...

The need to interaction between management, external auditors, the audit committee and internal audit as four components of corporate governance is important. The internal audit has always been considered as a source for other components and It has usually working relationship with these components. The purpose of this study is to determine factors...

Pension as a motivational system by providing future financial security of employees has an important role in their job satisfaction and calmness; despite the importance of financial reporting of pension funds, their accounting standard not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this paper is assessing the effectiveness of Iranian Accounting...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is assessing the usefulness of information resulted from applying Iranian accounting Standard of Retirement benefit plans (No.27). Methodology: we use Post Implementation Review and mixed method approaches; in other words, we used questionnaires and interviews for collecting data. Results: format of financial stat...

Objective: This study examines the challenges and opportunities in impelimenting of International Standard of Auditing 700 (revised 2015) and 701 (new) in Iran in terms of the recent transformations in auditor report and potential impacts of its change on various political, legal and economic environments. Methods: We perform qualitative content an...

Organizational culture the evaluation of which by the board of directors is a very difficult job, is considered as a soft issue in organizations. Internal audit is a unique function within an organization, which with independence and access to individual's information and evidence may ensure the board of directors that there is a strong commitment...

In this research, with different stakeholder’s participation (included 148 people: enterprise Chief financial officer, expert external auditors, Chief investment officers and university professors) it has been tried to consider the effectiveness of revised Iranianaccounting standards No.19 (Business Combination) with survey in different aspects. Th...

In the past decade, In order to develop corporate governance in Iran, regulatory authorities such as the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) and the Securities & Exchange Organization (SEO) have considered the modern internal auditing through issuing guidelines and requirements in this regards. Due to the gradual expansion of the mod...

Objective: By the full adoption of IFRS, measurement and disclosure of fair values become more common in Iranian financial reporting. The present study aims to identify the technical challenges of fair value measurement and disclosure in accordance with the proposed framework in IFRS13 as well as technical factors underlying resistance to fair-valu...

Voluntary disclosure of managers as one of the mechanisms of transparency are noticed by analysts and capital market participants. Identifying the determinants of voluntary disclosure can help to understand the factors that affected the transparency and efficiency of capital market and efficiency of resource allocation. In this study, the character...

Implementing the internal control mechanisms and disclosing their reports is one of the effective control tools in more suitable monitoring of stakeholders over the behavior and performance of managers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between disclosure of internal control report over financial reporting, agency expenses an...

Stakeholders use different types of information to evaluate companies. Companies are required by various institutions, including stock market regulatory and standard developers, to report information. Previous studies examine value relevance of non-financial and financial performance measures separately.This study examines this relationship simulta...

In public corporations, important rules are important because of the relative complexity of the relationship between executives. According to the agency theory, the goal of the company is to maximize shareholder wealth. This goal is limited, and the supporters of the stakeholder theory believe that such a narrow goal with the responsibilities of mo...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 13 (fair value measurement) and IFRS 9 (credit loss discount estimate) have allowed financial institutions to report their financial assets and liabilities based on fair value. For banks, the bank facility is one of the financial assets that can be reported by fair value. Disclosure and reporting o...

Introduction In the 80s and 90s, accounting education received much criticism from accounting bodies. Therefore, since 1990, the accounting profession has given ever-increasing focus and attention to the effectiveness and nature of accounting education and moving to new & innovative teaching approaches (Smalt & Seldon, 2005). Accounting Education C...

The aim of this research is to investigate determinants of firm's intangible investments. The model of Arefmanesh and Rahmani (1394) was used to measure unrecorded and total intangibles. According to literature, Determinants were identified. Structural Equation Model by Partial Least Squares (PLS) path modeling was used to analyze determinants of f...

راهبری موثر باید به عنوان یک فرایند منسجم و یکپارچه، مدل کسب و کار سازمان، محیط سازمان و چگونگی ایجاد ارزش پایدار و بهینه برای ذینفعان را درک کند و از پیشرفت مناسب اهداف و ارزش های اساسی سازمان، اطمینان حاصل نماید. در این راستا، حسابرسی داخلی یکی از حلقه های زنجیره ارزش آفرینی در سازمانهای نوین است که در چارچوب نظام راهبری شرکتی، نقش مهمی در توسعه...

Pricing of financial assets and identify important risk factors is one of the fundamental issues of finance theory. In this study, using insights of CAPM and three-factor model (Fama and French, 1993), PEG and four-factor models was developed. Using financial data of 270 companies traded in TSE during the beginning of 2006 to the end of 2014, three...

Probability of the effects of demographical factors such as ethnicity, geographical area and age range on the behaviors of investors in the stock market has not been studied as much as those of the financial and economic variables. This study aims at investigating the relationship between ethnicity, geographical area, and age range of investors and...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relation between accounting comparability and earning management method selection. Comparability is a qualitative characteristic of accounting information. It makes information users' able to identify and understand similarities and differences between two set of information and use them in their decision...

Since adding value to the organization is the main goal of internal audit, So it should be effective, therefore, it is important to recognize the components in evaluating the effectiveness of internal audit in Iran. The main purpose of this study is to determine the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of internal audit in Iran. Questionnaire...

Low transparency causes information asymmetry, increases risk of information and thus decreases shareholder confidence. Voluntary disclosure with improvement of financial information transparency may raise investors' awareness, increase shareholders confidence and decrease cost of capital. This study investigates that information asymmetry and cost...

Mutual funds were first established in Iran in 2007 under Securities Market Act 2005 and have since grown significantly to one of the most important capital market intermediaries. Hence understanding and evaluating the performance of these funds are critical to both investors and fund managers. This research aims to examine the effects of various m...

According to the information perspectives of accounting, the main function of accounting is to provide information and to reduce uncertainty. Therefore, accounting capacity of reducing uncertainty determines the accounting quality (AQ) and so, we are attempting to find the best combinations of AQ Proxies whose trading off can reduce uncertainty. Th...

Voluntary disclosure is one of the most important management tool to transfer the data on financial performance of companies to investors, creditors and other stakeholders. One of the main reasons for the request for voluntary disclosure, agency and asymmetric information. This study to develop a suitable model of voluntary disclosure study the sco...

‬Voluntary disclosure of information, coordination, and partnership between the companies and investors improves with increasing the transparency of information and reducing information asymmetry. Voluntary disclosure with reducing opportunities earnings manipulation resulted to improve the quality of financial reporting and increase the confidence...

In the recent years, the universities have been worried about performance management more than ever. In the present complex and competitive universe, the success of universities is impossible without presence of proper strategy and methods for evaluating their level of achievements. The balanced scorecard method is a model of evaluating performance...

در این پژوهش، ابتدا رابطه بین ویژگی های مختلف شرکتی و سطح افشای اطلاعات که طی 32 پژوهش موجود در ادبیات در بیش از بیست کشور دنیا مشاهده شده است، بررسی شد. سپس رابطه بین ویژگی هایی که در ادبیات مربوطه رابطه آن با سطح افشای اطلاعات به دفعات بررسی و تأیید شده بود، به عنوان عوامل بالقوه تأثیرگذار بر سطح افشای اطلاعات در شرکت های پذیرفته شده در بورس اورا...

Developing an effective university governance model at the higher education institutions and exploring its pattern index and components is the main purpose of this research. Also identifying effective governance barriers and challenges is another purpose of this research. In this research, university governance at Alzahra University in year 93 from...

هدف این پژوهش، بررسی و شناخت موانع پیش‌روی استقرار واحد حسابرسی داخلی در دانشگاه‌های دولتی وابسته به وزارت علوم است. به این‌منظور در پژوهش حاضر به بررسی نظرات نمونه‌ای 193 نفر از کارشناسان ذی‌ربط امور مالی دانشگاهی و افراد حرفه‌ای شاغل در خارج از دانشگاه، پرداخته ‌شده ‌است. با استفاده از آزمون‌های آماری «t یک نمونه‌ای» و «تحلیل عاملی» موانع شناسایی...

Companies’ voluntary disclosure is one of the most important management tools to convey information about the financial performance to investors, creditors and other stakeholders. One of the important reasons of the request for disclosure of information is agency problem and asymmetry of information. This study aims to examine value relevance of vo...

Diversified growth and complex business environment has increased the financial risk. When firms are faced with a variety of risk, they used to manage this risk by hedging instruments. Hedging instruments increase transparency and control swing of cash flow and net income in the firms. This paper investigates effect of risk management on swing of c...

Although, intangible assets play an important role in firm's success and its final value in the new knowledge based economy. There is fundamental challenges about valuation of knowledge assets and intangible value drivers and also assessment of its effect on firms success and performance . because according to current accounting standards, most of...

This paper investigates the relationship between book- tax differences with tax avoidance of firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2006 to 2013. We used effective tax rate method for measuring tax avoidance. Also, for more investigations, the method of Desai & Darmapala (2006) was used. This research studies correlation based on p...

The purpose of this study is the event study of internal controls over financial reporting requirements with emphasizing the role of the audit committee. In the event studies, to minimize the effects of other events, the impact of an event in a short period of time before and after the event is studied. In this context, the present study, examines...

The Return on Investment (ROI) is widely regarded as a key measure of firm’s performance. The literature has recognized, mostly, that ROI will not reflect economic profitability. This study takes behavior of ROI as a function of two variables: past growth and accounting conservatism. The studied sample consists of 61 firms listed in the Tehran Stoc...

The purpose of this paper is Meta-analysis of audit Committee independence and financial reporting quality. In spite of general expectation for positive relationship between audit committee independence and financial reporting quality, the empirical researches reveal several inconsistence conclusions. So, we conduct a meta-analysis of the associati...

One of the most considerable concerns of investors in capital market is the phenomena of fund selection for investment. Hence, it is required to know that whether investors could predict future performance base on past performance properly; in other words wheatear investors’ trusting on past performance is reasonable or not. Answering these kinds o...

The importance of intangible assets in firm's success is increasing. So giving insight about its quality and measurement metrics is vital for the firms. In knowledge based economy, intangible assets must be the basis of development. Hence intangible assets management is very important and this management without measurement of intangibles isn’t eff...

در ایران از فعالیت صندوق‏ها‏ی سرمایه‏گذاری زمان زیادی نمی گذرد، ولی این صندوق‏ها‏ رشد چشم گیری داشته اند. یکی از عوامل موثر بر رشد صندوق‏ها‏، عملکرد گذشته آن‏ها‏ می‏باشد. لذا در پژوهش حاضر با انتخاب نمونه ای شامل 42 صندوق سرمایه گذاری در سهام در بازه‏ی ‏زمانی 31 خرداد ماه 90 تا 31 خرداد ماه 92 به بررسی رابطه‏ی رشد نسبی جریان وجوه- عملکرد گذشته می‏پ...

It is of great significance to identify the variables affecting stock return and its price in the emerging markets. According to CAPM, Beta is the only variable capable of predicting the return. The recent studies demonstrate that there exist other variables which outperform stock return predictability potential of the Beta. Included among such var...