Decisions in new businesses
Aitak kor dordaei; Parviz Saeidi
Abstract
Understanding behavioral accounting has a lot to do with studying human aspects of finance. This is because the research focuses on users of financial reports and their characteristics often assumes that financial information is in impartial, non-discriminatory and worthless. However, the information ...
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Understanding behavioral accounting has a lot to do with studying human aspects of finance. This is because the research focuses on users of financial reports and their characteristics often assumes that financial information is in impartial, non-discriminatory and worthless. However, the information that investors and stakeholders in the capital market use to make economic decisions are provided by accountants who use their professional judgments when interpreting and applying accounting standards. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of accounting role on financial behavior. A questionnaire was used to infer the research hypotheses. This questionnaire was distributed among 288 investors in 1396. The main hypothesis of the relationship between the perception of accounting standards and financial behavior was investigated. Findings show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the perception of accounting standards and financial behavior.