The effect of corporate governance level on the Earnings transparency and cost of capital in tehran stock exchange

Document Type : Original Article

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10.22034/iaar.2015.103905

Abstract

The present study examined the effect of corporate governance level on the   earnings transparency and the cost of capital . Population in this study are listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange The use of targeted sampling of 107  companies among them is selected as the research sample . . Jark test results - to show that the distribution of the dependent variable is not normal . To normalize the data was used by Johnson . In order to test the hypothesis of the research of the regression model is used to Enter . The first hypothesis research  is that the :if corporate governance level is higher ، the earnings transparency  more.the asecond hypothesis of research : if corporate governance level is higher ، cost of capital is lower . The results of the regression model shown if corporate governance level is higher ، earnings transparency is higher and cost of capital is lower .

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