Empirical Investigating of the Impact of Comparability and Readability of the Financial Statements on Avoiding of the Companies Shares' Incorrect Pricing

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Assistant Prof. , Department of Accounting, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Prof, Department of Accounting,, Zanjan branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran

3 MA. In Accounting, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.22051/jfm.2024.43428.2808

Abstract

The present study aim is to empirically investigate the impact of comparability and readability of financial statements on avoiding incorrect pricing of company shares. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, a sample of 127 companies listed in the Stock Exchange, which were selected according to the systematic elimination pattern, was collected for a period of 10 years from 2013 to 2022, and since the data of the period 2022 in the calculations It was needed for 9 years and was used for statistical work. A multivariable linear regression model was used to test the research hypotheses. For incorrect pricing of shares, the model previously developed by Pantzalis and Park (2013) and for measuring the readability and comparability of financial statements, the fog index and the profit-return index were used, respectively. The results of the research hypotheses test showed that the increase of both the readability of financial statements and the ability to compare accounting information separately leads to a decrease in the volume of incorrect stock pricing. In addition to that, further investigations revealed the interaction of the above two variables and led to the exchange and formation of stock prices in figures close to their intrinsic values, and the volume of incorrect stock pricing has decreased due to the reduction of information inequality

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  • Receive Date: 12 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 28 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 07 May 2024

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