Percent Accruals and the Accrual Anomaly in Tehran Stock Exchange

Earning is one of the important components in capital market analysis. And Regarding the importance of the Earning in analyzing the companies, the study of Earnings components and its effect on other accounting variables can be useful. Earning is composed of accrual and cash flow. The accrual component is less persistent and some of the investors can’t distinguish this differential persistence. This matter is the cause of accrual anomaly formation. This study investigates the Accrual anomaly in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2007 to 2015 by using two accrual measures, percent accrual and traditional accrual. For this purpose in this study hedge portfolio method in whole sample, profit and loss firms and the arbitrage risk quantiles is used. The result shows that percent accrual measure is relatively better than traditional accrual in detecting accrual anomaly. And the results of this study robust after controlling other scales for traditional accrual. But the result weren’t robust for controlling Jensen alpha in CAPM and Fama French models.