Factor analysis to explain the effectiveness of disclosing non-financial information in accounting reports

The aim of the current research is to explain the effectiveness of disclosing non-financial information in accounting reports based on factor analysis. For this purpose, all accounting reports of listed companies that have a non-financial (qualitative) aspect (including: attached notes, report of the board of directors to the assembly, internal control report, audit reports) to extract non-financial variables It was investigated and 50 non-financial variables were identified and sent to 380 people in the form of a checklist to obtain points from experts based on Morgan's table, refining the opinions of the research experts to 23 non-financial variables, finally, the mentioned non-financial variables were divided into four social and economic factors, environment and corporate governance were divided, also in order to measure the effectiveness of the mentioned factors, 5 criteria including: stock liquidity, information asymmetry, financial performance, price concurrency and cost of capital were used as dependent variables for the time period 2012 to 2021. The present research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection method. In terms of the type of data, it is a qualitative and quantitative research, and in terms of the method of data analysis, it is a research with a mixed method, which will be used in a part of the research using a qualitative method and in another part, a quantitative method. And for data analysis, Stata software version 15 and tabular data model were used. The results of the research showed that, based on the factor analysis, all the mentioned factors have a positive and significant effect on the effectiveness of accounting reports.