A comparative study of the ability of income momentum accounting (3D) and 2D accounting components in stock price explanation

Document Type : Original Article

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10.22034/iaar.2016.99181

Abstract

Criticism over financial reporting based on tow dimensional  (2D)accounting due to the failure to provide information useful in the decision making process, resulting in offering three dimensional(3D)models to develop accounting in recent decades. the most famous proposed model, income momentum accounting, which first was introduced by Ijiri in 1982 and extended in subsequent studies. this model emphasis on the simulation of Newton's laws of motion of objects to changes in the profitability of companies and the introduction of two financial statement as income momentum statement and force statement.
This paper while outlines the income momentum accounting , investigate the ability of income momentum accounting components in compared to 2D accounting in explain stock price for 168 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from the years 1386 to 1392. Hypothesis testing method is linear regression and for comparing the two approaches of accounting used of simultaneously significant test. according to the results, a significant positive relation between income momentum accounting components  and stock price there is solely on income momentum and action. also the explanatory power of financial reports based on income momentum accounting compared with the financial reports based on two-dimensional accounting is greater. But the difference in the explanatory power is very low and 1.3 percent.

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