Examining the impact of financial reporting quality on the relation between investment decisions and dividend payout policy / Israa Abdelkhalek Hussein ; Supervised Ashraf Mahmoud Kadry Elsharkawy , Heba Abouelsood

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Commerce - Department of Accounting

Miller and Modigliani{u2019}s (1961) assumptions are viewed as not holding anymore as investment decisions and dividend payout policies are inseparable. This thesis examines the association between these two corporate decisions given the level of financial reporting quality. The study covers a period of five years (2010-2014), for a final sample of 71 Egyptian non-financial firms. Multiple regression is employed as a tool of analysis on the secondary data, extracted from the annual financial statements of the Egyptian firms. The results indicate that dividend policy is negatively associated with investment decisions for the whole sample. Moreover, when splitting the sample according to the firm life cycle, unexpectedly, there is a negative association in the subsample of firms in the declining phase compared to the well matured firms subsample. It could be inferred that the economic and political events during the Egyptian revolution may have an influence on the investment decisions of Egyptian firms. In addition, it is found that financial reporting quality does not lessen that negative association between the two corporate decisions, either in the whole or subsamples. The study is composed of four chapters. The first two chapters represent the theoretical part while the empirical part is conducted in the remaining two chapters. It is recommended that the financial reporting may need to be more suitable to the Egyptian setting, being an emerging market, to reflect its distinct character compared to more developed countries

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