The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator

Effect of accounting information on the share price has been having the share of attention from researchers for over six decades owing to the increasing of global financial crisis. Hence, this study attempts to contribute to literature by investigating such relationship in Jordan, a developing co...

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spelling my-unimap-767302022-11-08T02:45:54Z The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator Md Aminul, Islam, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Effect of accounting information on the share price has been having the share of attention from researchers for over six decades owing to the increasing of global financial crisis. Hence, this study attempts to contribute to literature by investigating such relationship in Jordan, a developing country. Specifically, this study investigates the relationship between the cash flow and accruals on share price of listed companies on Amman stock Exchange for the year 2002 to 2014 also the effect of financial crisis on the share price before and after 2008. The model of this study was theoretically founded on both the agency and the signaling theories. To examine the developed model, the required data were gathered from the annual reports of 236 listed firms. In analyzing the data, this study utilized the panel data methodology on 117 companies with 1521 observations. Moreover, this study used audit quality (audit firm size and audit tenure) as moderating variable. Based on the panel data results, the fixed effect model was used to examine the effect of the cash flows and accruals on the share price. The accruals and cash flows combined have significant effects on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and that they together explain 40.93% of the variations in these prices. In addition, the study found that the cash flows have a significant effect on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and that the operating cash flows (OCFs), financing cash flows (FCFs), and investment cash flows (ICFs) together explain 13.27% of the variations in these prices. Whereas the OCFs have positive effect on the share prices of these companies, the effect of FCFs is negative. On the other hand, the accruals (aggregate accruals (AGGAs), current accruals (CAs), and total accruals (TAs)) have a statistically-significant, positive effect on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and CAs, TAs and AGGAs, together explain 38.92% of the variations in these prices. Audit quality, whether auditor’s firm size or auditor’s tenure, has significant moderating effect on associations of the share prices with accruals and with cash flows and the 2008 financial crisis had negative effects on share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE. Besides providing suggestions for future research work, this study provides deep insights into relative usefulness of cash-based and accrual-based accounting measures and assist investors, regulators, analysts, and other stakeholders in evaluating the liquidity and financial performance of Jordanian companies listed on ASE, which may result in better allocation of economic resources by enabling the investors to take informed investment decisions, thus promoting a more efficient Jordanian capital market. Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Thesis en http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/76730 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/4/license.txt 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/1/Page%201-24.pdf c7e93e02980beee77a8c6529d532f7d9 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/2/Full%20text.pdf 3214476e1e96cdd0e8a9daa70d6964fc http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/3/Declaration%20Form.pdf a407feacfec78885dab968bfdc86f1f6 Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Financial crises Cash management Audit trails School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
collection UniMAP Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Md Aminul, Islam, Assoc. Prof. Dr.
topic Financial crises
Cash management
Audit trails
spellingShingle Financial crises
Cash management
Audit trails
The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
description Effect of accounting information on the share price has been having the share of attention from researchers for over six decades owing to the increasing of global financial crisis. Hence, this study attempts to contribute to literature by investigating such relationship in Jordan, a developing country. Specifically, this study investigates the relationship between the cash flow and accruals on share price of listed companies on Amman stock Exchange for the year 2002 to 2014 also the effect of financial crisis on the share price before and after 2008. The model of this study was theoretically founded on both the agency and the signaling theories. To examine the developed model, the required data were gathered from the annual reports of 236 listed firms. In analyzing the data, this study utilized the panel data methodology on 117 companies with 1521 observations. Moreover, this study used audit quality (audit firm size and audit tenure) as moderating variable. Based on the panel data results, the fixed effect model was used to examine the effect of the cash flows and accruals on the share price. The accruals and cash flows combined have significant effects on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and that they together explain 40.93% of the variations in these prices. In addition, the study found that the cash flows have a significant effect on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and that the operating cash flows (OCFs), financing cash flows (FCFs), and investment cash flows (ICFs) together explain 13.27% of the variations in these prices. Whereas the OCFs have positive effect on the share prices of these companies, the effect of FCFs is negative. On the other hand, the accruals (aggregate accruals (AGGAs), current accruals (CAs), and total accruals (TAs)) have a statistically-significant, positive effect on the share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE and CAs, TAs and AGGAs, together explain 38.92% of the variations in these prices. Audit quality, whether auditor’s firm size or auditor’s tenure, has significant moderating effect on associations of the share prices with accruals and with cash flows and the 2008 financial crisis had negative effects on share prices of the Jordanian companies listed on ASE. Besides providing suggestions for future research work, this study provides deep insights into relative usefulness of cash-based and accrual-based accounting measures and assist investors, regulators, analysts, and other stakeholders in evaluating the liquidity and financial performance of Jordanian companies listed on ASE, which may result in better allocation of economic resources by enabling the investors to take informed investment decisions, thus promoting a more efficient Jordanian capital market.
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title The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
title_short The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
title_full The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
title_fullStr The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
title_full_unstemmed The effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in Jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
title_sort effects of cash flows and accruals on the share price in jordan with special reference to financial crisis: audit quality as a moderator
granting_institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
granting_department School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship
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http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/2/Full%20text.pdf
http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/bitstream/123456789/76730/3/Declaration%20Form.pdf
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