Advances In Management

Vol. 7(6) June (2014)

Case Study:

The study of relationship between intellectual capital and

its growth rate with earning management (in accepted
companies in Tehran Stock Exchange)
Saremi Hamid1, Mohammadi Tayebeh2* and Firooz Faezeh2

1. Islamic Azad University- Quchan Branch, IRAN

2. Department of Financial Management, Islamic Azad University- Neyshabur Branch, IRAN
*t_mohammadi93@yahoo.com

management investment is the key factor to success in the

domain of challenging and ruffled environment. These
kinds of belongings have an effective role on the existence
of long-term competitive profit. The companies which can
diagnose these belongings well and manage them, can have
a better performance in comparison to their competitors.
Therefore, this research seeks to enrich the effective factors
on the earning management that one of them is the
intellectual capital13.

Abstract
Since the intellectual capital provides a new and
perfect model to observation of organizations real
value, therefore, the tendency to evaluation of
intangible assets true value of intellectual capital has
increased in companies, shareholders (investors) and
other stakeholders. This study investigates the
relationship between the intellectual capital and its
growth rate with earning management in accepted
companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange. Study
includes all Tehran Stock Exchange firms. Finally,
during the period 2006 to 2013, 121 companies were
selected

The concept of intellectual capital

Stuart11 believes that the intellectual capital includes

knowledge, information, mental belonging and experience
which can be used for creating wealth. The intellectual
capital is the mass mental ability or the key knowledge as a
whole. In fact it is a collection of knowledge, information,
mental
property,
experience,
competition
and
organizational learning that can be used for creating wealth.

The methodology of research is descriptive. Using a

modified Jones discretionary accruals calculated as a
measure to detect earnings management and then
placed in the regression model defined earnings
management, hypotheses were tested. With the use of
regression analysis the research hypotheses have been
carried out. Also a number of control variables have
been used. The results of this study show that there is
a significant relationship between intellectual capital
and earnings management but there is a significant
relationship between intellectual capital growth and
earnings management.

The concept of earning management

Earning management is the purposeful interference, the out
financial report process for achieving the private profits10.
Earning management is also defined as an artificial
manipulation of the profit by the management for reaching
the expected level of profit for some specific decisions (like
the anticipation of analysts or speculating the former profit
process for predicting the future profits)7.

Review of Literature

Nikumaram and colleagues10 evaluate 9 models of earning

management. The evaluation in this research is based on
the capability of each model on the point of facing with two
kinds of known errors in statistical deduction called first
kind of error (Alpha) and second kind of error (Beta). The
findings show that, the models investigated based on
regression methods have more power to other three Hili,
Deangelo and modulated models. From the regression
methods, the main Jones method has less power to state the
earning management, but the modulated method of Jones
has more reliable results in discovering the earning
management.

Keywords: Intellectual capital, Intellectual capital growth,

Earning management.

Introduction
The earning management is defined as a process of taking
aware steps in the range of accepted principles of
accounting for reaching the reported profit to the
considered profit level, the action of approximating the
reported profit to the ultimate profit level through
accounting manipulation8. Today, the earning management
is one of controversial and interesting among the
accounting researches because the investors pay a lot of
attention to the profit amount as one of the important
factors.

Chen et al3 in their examination state an examining model

of intellectual capital based on the quality indexes. In this
research the intellectual capital is divided in to four parts
and their relevant indexes and their validity is confirmed.
Then a meaningful test is administered between the results

The current world is the knowledge era. These days the

natural belongings and endowments is not the prosperous
key for the organizations but having the mental and

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