Coordination of recognition and disclosure decisions in uncertainties reporting: investigating the relationship between conditional conservatism and risk disclosu

Accounting Conservatism and risk disclosure are two information policies that managers can use to transfer business uncertainties to external users. Managers are expected to coordinate their reporting and disclosure choices by considering the cost and benefit of these two choices when making financial reporting decisions and coordinate or trade off the two options of conservatism and risk disclosure. This study investigated the relationship between conditional conservatism and risk disclosure. It also analyzed the effect of the factors of the level of debt financing needs and the manager's overconfidence by using a multiple regression model based on the sample of 87 companies listed on the Tehran stock exchange for the period of 2011 to 2020. The results indicate that managers use conditional conservatism and risk disclosure as two complementary information policies to reduce information asymmetry and agency costs. By applying more Conditional conservatism, managers improve the level of risk disclosure in proportion to the level of uncertainty perceived through risk disclosure by users to maintain consistency between quantitative and qualitative information. The debt financing needs has a negative and significant effect, and the overconfidence characteristic of managers has no significant effect on the relationship between the level of conditional conservatism and the level of risk disclosure of firms. Companies with a higher debt financing needs use more conditional conservatism than risk disclosure to reduce debt Costs. The results show that the relative costs and benefits of conservative reporting and risk disclosure affect financial reporting policies regarding risks and uncertainties.