The Impact of Cooperating With Institutional Investors in Financial Policy-Making of Companies on

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of institutional investors' participation in corporate finance policy on earnings management during the initial public offering of shares. The spatial domain of this research was all companies with initial public offering in the Tehran Stock Exchange and the period of the years from 2011 to 2016. In this research, financial policy (dividend method and financing method) of independent variable and earnings management were considered as dependent variable and institutional investors of the moderating variable. Based on a targeted sampling method, 14 companies were selected as the statistical sample. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to describe and explain the collected data. The results of the research showed that the participation of institutional investors in the dividend dividend method influences the management of earnings during the initial public offering of shares. The participation of institutional investors in the company's financing practices affects earnings management during the initial public offering of shares.