Paradigm model of factors affecting the quality of financial reporting in Bidboland Gas Refining Company

The financial reporting quality is one of the most important topics in accounting research that has been evaluated from both academic and experimental aspects. In this paper, using grounded theory and semi-structured interviews with 11 board of directors and senior financial managers in 2021, an attempt has been made to design a conceptual model of financial reporting quality of Bidboland Gas Refining Company. Research data were analyzed using open coding method and final concepts were extracted. According to the interviews, through linking causal, contextual and intervening conditions as input factors and strategies and consequences as output factors, the conceptual model have been identified and reported. According to the extracted paradigm model, the most important causal conditions affecting the quality of financial reporting include corporate governance, quality of disclosure, accounting information system and financial knowledge and expertise. Also, to achieve the better quality of financial reporting, strategies such as financial transparency, the establishment of internal control system and the implementation of operational auditing should be adopted. The research model showed that the quality of financial reporting can have consequences such as increasing efficiency and improve performance, costs saving, reducing information asymmetry and the financial report’s reliability.