Investigating the convergence of reflective and formative criteria of earnings quality in response to motivational components of managers

Subject Areas : Management Accounting

Abdollah Hoseinzadeh ¹ , Zohreh Hajiha ² , S. Mahmoud Mousavi Shiri ³ , Hashem Nikoomaram ⁴

1 - Ph.D Student, Department of Accounting, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Professor, Department of Accounting, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-08-14 Accepted : 2019-12-22 Published : 2020-06-21

Keywords: Earning Quality, reflective model, formative model, motivational components of man,

Abstract :

Although the quality earnings is one of the topics that has been considered by many accounting researchers in recent decades, the accounting literature does not determine the relationships among the existing criteria accurately. In this study, earning quality criteria are divided into two groups based on reflective and formative models, and then the convergence between the criteria in each group is examined according to the motivational components of managers who are a determining factor in quality earning. The statistical sample of the study includes 163 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange between 2010 and 2018. The research findings show that First there is a positive and significant relationship between the criteria of predictability and restatement and between the criteria of persistence and restatement and also between the criteria of value relevance and discretionary accruals. Second, the convergence between the reflective criteria is greater than the formative criteria of earning quality, and third, the motivational components of debt and tax increase the convergence between the reflective criteria over the formative criteria of earning quality.

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