Eeffect of corporate governance on the relationship betweendisclosure of internal control weakness and accruals quality

The present research aims to study the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on therelationship between the internal control weakness and accruals' quality in the companies listed inTehran Stock Exchange. The accruals' quality and the internal control weakness are the dependentand independent variables, respectively. 9 different criteria of the corporate governance includemanagerial mechanisms and ownership structure as the moderating variables. To calculate theresearch variables, data of 159 companies in the time interval of 2011-2017 were used. The researchis applied, descriptive and correlational. The hypotheses testing using the regression models showsthat there is a significant reverse relationship between the internal control weakness and accruals'quality. And independence of the board of directors, the size of the board of directors, free float stockand the institutional ownership percentage will weaken the negative effect of the internal controlweakness on the accruals' quality and in contrast, the CEO stability and the ownership concentrationwill intensify the effect of internal control weakness in companies.