The Effects of the CEO’s Perceptual Bias in Economic Decision-Making and Judgment on the Capabilities of the Financial Reporting Quality

Subject Areas : Financial Accounting

Mohsen Heydari ¹ , Mohammadreza Abdoli ²

1 - Department of Accounting, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran
2 - Department of Accounting, Shahrood Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood, Iran

Received: 2019-03-13 Accepted : 2019-06-23 Published : 2019-10-01

Keywords: CEO’s Perceptual Bias in Economic Decisions, Financial Reporting Competitive-ness, Financial Reporting Reliability, CEO’s perceptual bias in judgment,

Abstract :

The current research sets out to identify and scrutinize the impact of the CEO’s perceptual biases in judgment and economic decision-making on the reporting quality of the firms listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Adopting a mixed method, the present study first seeks to detect the components and indices of CEO’s perceptual biases via critical appraisal and with the special participation of 10 accounting experts. Afterwards, the rec-ognized indices are set to undergo a Delphi analysis given the mean and the coefficient of agreement. The verified indices are then adapted to the ac-counting models and analyzed in the form of research hypotheses. The re-sults of qualitative analysis using Delphi method verify the reliability of 16 indices out of 22 ones. Regarding the quantitative analysis, the association between the indices of the CEO’s perceptual biases in judgment and econom-ic decision-making, and the primary proxies of financial reporting, namely reliability and competitiveness is tested. The findings reveal that the indices of the CEO’s perceptual biases in judgment and economic decision-making exert a significantly negative effect on financial reporting reliability and competitiveness.

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