The Relationship between Financing Constraints and Conditional and Unconditional Conservatism of Listed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange

The purpose of financial reporting is to present useful information to users. Information is useful if it has qualitative features including reliability and relevance. One of the components of the reliability of information is Conservatism principle. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between conditional and unconditional conservatism with financing constraints in companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange. To examine this matter, 107 companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 2010 to 2014 were selected. In this study, multivariate regression model and data panel were used. The results show that there is a significant and positive relationship between restrictions on financing and conditional conservatism. A significant positive correlation was, also, observed between conservatism and unconditional and financing constraints