Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between financial reporting and cost stickiness in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach: Data of all Iranian manufacturing listed companies gathered for testing hypotheses during...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a deeper understanding about the reasons behind difference in previous studies’ results in the field of audit quality determinants. Design/methodology/approach: A meta-analysis method is employed in which 52 studies including 40...

Purpose: There is a few studies about stickiness and changes in audit fees. In previous studies, researchers focused on fees behavior, which is expected to change in the short term, regardless of mentioning stickiness of fees and its possible changes. In this study, the authors investigate...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the predictability of firm level data for determining macroeconomic indicators such as unemployment. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses quarterly GDP and unemployment data manually collected from the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI)....