Theoretically, the principal-agent problem can affect audit fees due to the need for an auditor to monitor the business entity. In fact, auditing has a place in the regulatory aspect of any system and has a wide range of applications from the highest level of state administration to the smallest...

We present a new generalized family of skew two-piece skew-elliptical (GSTPSE) models and derive some its statistical properties. It is shown that the new family of distribution may be written as a mixture of generalized skew elliptical distributions. Also, a new representation theorem for a...

Internal control plays a very effective role in organizations. The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of internal control in the Iranian banking sector during 2011 with special reference to Bank Mellat. A questionnaire was designed and developed for data collection. The results...

Need for valuable experience and knowledge as well as support for graduates are the requirements of growth in societies. The purpose of the present research was to study the difference between the expected general, administrative, and specialized skills of accounting graduates and their actual...

Need for valuable experience and knowledge as well as support for graduates are the requirements of growth in societies. The purpose of the present research was to study the difference between the expected administrative and specialized skills of accounting graduates. This research was an...

There is no doubt that new investments are the cornerstone of progress and competition in today’s world. Different financing instruments are employed to secure the funds for these investments. The most common financing methods in Iran are debt and equity financing. Some investors, including...

A new sampling scheme for generating record-breaking data is introduced and called record ranked set sampling (RRSS). A distribution-free two-sided prediction interval for future order statistics based on RRSS is derived. Numerical computations are obtained for comparing the results with the...

In the recent years, a growing of theoretical and empirical literature has developed a paradigm in which the extent of financial intermediation and the rate of economic growth are endogenously determined. Financial intermediaries emerge to reduce the information asymmetries, extending corporate...

Tobin’s Q model is one of the economic models for evaluation of companies, proposed by Tobin in 1968 and represents the ratio of the market value of the companies’ shares plus the book value of its debts to the book value of its assets. It seems that one reason for the difference in...

The expansion of the scope of private ownership through privatization of state-owned enterprises and decentralization has brought into focus the capital owners’ interests in strengthening the culture of accountability and in promoting information transparency of companies and other economic...