Persistence of the Cash Component of Earnings for Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

Khodadadi, Vali; Ghorbani, Ramin; Hajizadeh, Saeed; Heydari Mohgadam, Peyman

doi:10.22103/jak.2012.116

Persistence of the Cash Component of Earnings for Companies Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange

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10.22103/jak.2012.116

Abstract

This study tries to answer this question that which one of the cash component of earning is the cause of that the cash component of earnings is more persistent than the accrual component. Cash component are decomposed into: (1) the change in the cash balance, (2) issuances/distributions to debt, and (3) issuances/ distributions to equity. In these analyses a sample of companies in Tehran Stock Exchange has been used between 1382 to 1387. For the analysis of the data correlation and multivariate regression and panel data method were used. The results show that the higher persistence of the cash component is entirely due to the subcomponent related to equity. Also, the cash distributed to debt holders has the lowest level of persistence than other cash component of earning.

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