The Effects of Materiality Threshold and Managers' Voluntary Incentives on Disclosure of Information in the Financial Statement of Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

Abstract

In this research, mandatory and voluntary incentives of disclosure, in the financial statement as a whole, have been tested. A sample of 98 companies active in Tehran stock exchange (TSE) and audited by Iran Auditing Organization (IAO) selected to test the research hypotheses. Study period selected, 1379 and 1380, as the fiscal year of before and after of the obligation to comply audit manual partially revised to include audit risk management as a base for materiality threshold. Research results is showed statistically significant impact of disclosure variables, include materiality threshold, earning response coefficient (ERC), proprietary cost (pc), on the disclosure in the financial statements. But the impact for the amount of capital provided by the company was no statistically significant.

Keywords

• Mandatory Disclosure.
• Materiality Threshold
• Voluntary disclosure