نشریه پژوهش های مالی و رفتاری در حسابداری
سال دوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 5، تابستان 1401)

"Financial therapy" and "financial coaching" are relatively new terms in the financial literature. Study and research in these two areas is increasing rapidly and all of these studies emphasize their importance.

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to disentangle differences between financial coaching and financial therapy.

At first the experiences of financial educators identify with Review studies and finally introduce the types of competencies required (including experience, skills, knowledge and awareness) to perform the tasks assigned to them based on the knowledge gained.

While financial coaching and financial therapy share many techniques and approaches, financial therapy is a more inclusive practice. Financial therapy (e.g., financial therapists) has the ability to address dysfunctional money attitudes, as well as money disorders, and covers a wider time spectrum of healing a person’s past trauma and old pains. Another difference between financial coaching and financial therapy that is discussed in the paper is the arrangement of services and compensation.

The paper does not suggest that one approach is better or right. Each approach can be appropriate for particular situations

Ethics is a part of the audit process, which is essential as a basic criterion for providing a fair opinion for auditors. For this purpose, ethical ideology includes a system of ethical values for ethical judgments that provide guidelines for resolving ethical behavior and professional judgment. On the other hand, the auditor's self-efficacy, which is defined as the auditor's expectation of himself to perform professional duties, can be influenced by ethical ideology. Because auditors seek to increase the quality of auditing in order to maintain their professional credibility, and for this reason, it is necessary to examine the ethical components affecting the performance of auditors. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of auditors' ethical ideology on their self-efficacy. working in auditing firms, members of the Society of Certified Public Accountants of Iran, and the Auditing Organization in 2022, who were selected by an available sampling method. The research method is a descriptive survey, and the instrument used in the research is a standard questionnaire. In order to test the hypotheses, structural equation modeling was used using LISREL software. The research results show that ethical ideology, according to Forsyth's model, has a positive and significant effect on auditors' self-efficacy. Also, the ethical ideology of idealism has a positive and significant effect and the ethical ideology of relativism has a negative and significant effect on auditors' self-efficacy.

Individual stock sentiment is one of the non-fundamental factors that affect the financial markets which is influenced by various factors. Individual stock sentiment beta is a new concept and is defined as the sensitivity of individual stock returns to the individual stock sentiment changes. Due to the fact that Tehran stock exchange operate at a weak level of effiecency; this research purpuses to investigate the impact of individual sentiment beta on stock excess return and capital asset pricing model (CAPM) alpha in Tehran stock exchange. In this regard research data for top 50 companies of Tehran stock exchange at period from October 2019 to February 2021 which include biggest rise and fall in history of Tehran stock exchange was extracted through Rahavad Novin Software. Then excess return of 50 stock at research period time was calculated by Ami broker software, and finally all of data was analyzed by Eviews software.Finally the results showed that stocks with higher individual sentiment beta have higher excess return and CAPM alpha.

High investor sentiment has been linked with opportunistic managerial behavior in the face of more optimistic investors and analysts. In this study, this line of work is developed by documenting the increased likelihood of misstatements and the consequent increase in audit risk in the face of high investor sentiment. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effect investor sentiment on misstatements, and auditor behavior of listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange. The sample consists of 94 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in the period from 2017 to 2021. The research hypotheses were tested using multivariate regression model with panel data method. The results showed that investor sentiment have significant positive effect on the misstatements with in 95% confidence level. In addition, other findings indicated existence of a significant positive effect investor sentiment on audit fees and going concern opinion. As a result, The findings enhance the understanding of how investor sentiment affects misstatements, and auditor behavior, and enrich the literature on corporate auditor pricing and reporting decisions.

One of the general principles in education concerns learners’ active involvement in learning in such a way that they can communicate with the content of the book and demonstrate an active reaction. Active teaching and learning requires dynamic learning materials and textbooks are considered as one of the most important tools in this regard. One of the methods that can help accounting teachers and authors in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of textbooks and eliminating their shortcomings is the content analysis. Accordingly, the aim of this research, conducted in the form of a case study, is to introduce content analysis through William Romey’s model by which accounting teachers can examine the engagement factor and active students’ involvement with the book in terms of three components of texts, questions and images. The target content of the study was the fortieth edition of the book ‘Accounting Concepts and Procedures’ published by the Auditing Organization in 2020. According to the research findings, the rate of student involvement with the texts, questions and images of the book were found to be 0.04, 1.35 and 0, respectively. These findings imply that the questions in the book are actively and optimally designed while the texts and images are inactively compiled and need further revision.

The CEO behavioral pattern is the most important factor in decisions regarding corporate financing and capital structure composition. With the increasing competitiveness and management difficulty in highly complex organizational environments, firms (companies/organizations) require CEOs who can identify and consider such inherent complexity in momentous decisions. Risk management constitutes a major part of this decision-making process. Therefore, this study sought to address how CEO’s optimism and myopia affect different dimensions of corporate risk management, including compliance, strategy, operation, and reporting, considering the moderating role of CEO’s political connection and efficiency. To this end, the data were collected from 130 firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange in the 2014–2018 timeframe, and they were analyzed using multivariate regression with combined data. Results (from hypothesis testing) showed that CEO’s optimism has a negative relationship with strategy and operation, but a positive one with reporting. They also revealed that there is a negative, significant relationship between CEO’s myopia and strategy and compliance. CEO’s political connection turns negative the relationship between CEO’s optimism and operation as well as the relationship between CEO’s myopia and compliance; in addition, it has a positive effect on the relationship between CEO’s optimism and compliance and strategy, and a negative one on (the relationship with) operation. The mediating role of CEO’s efficiency is positive in the relationship between myopia and strategy and reporting, and it is negative in the relationship of myopia with operation.

Financial scandals and corporate bankruptcies, especially in the last two decades, have made the importance of ethical issues in the accounting and auditing profession more prominent than in the past and have attracted the attention of professional members, the academic community, and accounting researchers more than in the past. Emphasizing moral beliefs and examining its effects on various phenomena can help reduce financial scandals as well as the reputation of the profession. The main purpose of the current research is to evaluate ethical beliefs among professional accountants and non-accountants. This research was conducted in 1401 and its statistical population consists of expert (professional) accountants and non-accountants, from which 400 samples were selected. 200 of the statistical sample are accountants and the other 200 are non-accountants. In order to collect data, questionnaires were used, and structural equation modeling was used by Smart PLS3 and Spss25 software to test hypotheses. The findings of the research showed that with the increase in accounting expertise of people, their moral beliefs decrease. Also, the findings of the research indicate that non-accounting professionals have more moral beliefs than accounting professionals.