Disclosure

The study aims to investigate the relationship between the financial incentives of board members and disclosure of corporate risk, emphasizing the levels of corporate performance and risk in Iran. The research sample includes 98 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2011-2015 (490 years-firms); the firms have selected by using a systematic removal method. Regarding the aim, the present research is classified as an applied research and concerning its method, it is categorized as a descriptive research. The research hypotheses are examined using the linear regression testing method; Eviews software has employed for data analysis and hypotheses testing. Based on the regression results, financial incentives of board members are effective on the quality and extend of firm’s risk disclosure.

So far, readabilityof disclosure concepts and the behavioral features of investors have not been addressed appropriatedly in Iran despite their importance and there is not even a suitable tool to measure it in the country. Therefore, it seems necessary to conduct research in Iran to introduce the concept of disclosure readability, its measurement and the impact of business strategy on the readabilityof disclosure of financial statements. Therefore, the current paper evaluated the effect of the type of business strategy on the readability of financial statements of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. This is an applied causal (post-event) correlational paper. The statistical population of the study is all companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Using the systematic elimination sampling method, 129 companies were selected as the research sample and were surveyed in a period of 5 years from 2015 to 2019. EViews 9 and regression were used to test the research hypotheses. The results show that the type of business strategy affects the readability of financial statements of companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange.