This study investigates the relation between earnings management, board independence and audit fees considering the firm's profitability level. Two main hypotheses have been designed by theoretical framework, and have been tested on 57 listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2003 to...

The objective of this research is to study the relationship between corporate debt financing and earnings quality and also to find the dominance of positive influence of debt or negative influence of debt on earnings quality. The research data were collected from 81 firms listed in Tehran Stock...

This study addresses the relationship between accounting quality and audit attributes (i.e., audit quality, auditor industry specialization, audit concentration, and audit fees) with companies' SPCRs listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange. A multivariate regression model was used to test the...

The present study aims to investigate the effects of mandatory requirements of audit firm rotation on earnings management among companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The study population consists of 1030 observations and 103 companies listed on the TSE during the years 2003-2012;...

The present study aims to realize and become more familiar with the impact and the functions of audit committee and its characteristics, including the expertise and independence of members, related experiences, and change of auditor on the quality of financial reporting in companies listed on...

The present study investigates the relationship between management characteristics (managerial entrenchment, CEO narcissism, overconfidence, board effort, real and accrual-based earnings management) and the audit report readability of listed firms. In other words, this paper seeks to answer the...