Authors : Bushra Abdul Wahab Aljawaheri and Haider Mohamed Shrshab
Abstract: This study aimed to exam the impact of voluntary disclosure and accounting earnings quality on company value of listed companies in Iraqi Stock Exchange. The study methodology was a pooled data collected from the Iraqi Stock Exchange for the period from 2009-2015. The study sample is 17 listed banks using SPSS. The study independent variables are voluntary disclosure and accounting earnings quality. The dependent variable is company value which was measured using Tobin’s Q. The study also utilized (size, age, financial leverage, return on stockholders and market value to book of share) as control variables in order to help measuring the relationship among voluntary disclosure, accounting earnings quality and company value. The results of the study indicated that there is significant impact for voluntary disclosure and accounting earnings quality on company value. By testing the impact of voluntary disclosure the study recommends adopting a full reviewing on measuring of voluntary disclosure to increase the company value from users in Iraqi Stock Exchange. In addition, higher level of voluntary disclosure provides future information and risk indicators voluntarily.
Bushra Abdul Wahab Aljawaheri and Haider Mohamed Shrshab, 2019. The Impact of Voluntary Disclosure and Accounting Earnings Quality on the Company Value in Listed of Iraqi Companies. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 623-628.