Impact of Comparability of Financial Statements on the Level of Cash Holdings with an Emphasis on the Role of Financial Reporting Quality, Financing Constraints and Corporate Governance

Cash management is one of the most controversial subjects of financial management. How to use the corporate’s resources, and in particular internal funds, is an important decision in the conflict between shareholders and managers. Managers, by opting the appropriate combination of assets and debts, try to reach the goal of maximizing the corporate’s stock value. The present study examines the impact of financial statements comparability and the level of cash holdings with an emphasis on the role of financial reporting quality, financing constraints, and corporate governance. The domain of this research for the period of 10 years from the beginning of the year 87 to the end of the year 96 and the sample of 133 companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. The results of the research using multivariate regression models suggest that the financial statements comparability with the cash holdings has a reverse and significant effect. In other words, the financial statements comparability prevent the management behaviors in order to high level cash holdings that this relationship is also affected by the financial reporting quality and financing constraints, but Corporate governance does not affect the relationship between the financial statements comparability and the level of cash holdings.