Analysing the Relationship between Income Management and Ownership Structure in Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industry

The impact of ownership structure on management decisions for profit including earnings management is of great importance and evaluating this impact can assist companies for profit optimal management. This study examines whether the difference of the companies’ ownership structure has any impact on earnings management. This means that if the company owners are from different groups including government, financial institutions, banks and other companies, then how would be their earnings management? And which of these different ownership compositions are more effective? Using the results of this research, companies can undertake necessary measures in order to optimize the earnings management by clarifying the effect of stock ownership structure on earnings management. The research hypotheses were tested using univariate regression and the obtained results according to a study by Khaleghi et al, showed that there is not a significant relation between ownership structure and earnings management in Oil, Gas and petrochemical industry.