The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Financial Performance Indicators in the Jordanian Insurance Companies

This study investigates the effect of accounting conservatism as independent variable and size of the company as a control variable on financial indicators related to the performance of Jordanian insurance Companies, represented in return on asset, earnings per share (EPS), and market value of the share, for the period (2007-2014). The researcher has collected the necessary data from annual reports issued by insurances companies listed in Jordan Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The study sample consisted of (12) Jordanian Insurance companies. For determining whether the Jordanian insurance companies has practice accounting conservatism policies, the study used accruals based approach; in order to test the hypotheses of the study it has been used multiple regression analysis. The most important results are: The Jordanian insurance companies have practice accounting conservatism policies, and there are significant and positive effect of accounting conservatism policies on financial indicators related to the performance of the Jordanian insurance companies represented in:, return on asset and earnings per share (EPS), and market value of share, for the period (2007 to 2014). According to of the above results the researcher concluded many recommendations the most prominent is the increased oversight of the securities Exchange commission, the organizers of the accounting profession and the official supervisors of organizing the companies’ work in Jordan, adopt the appropriate procedures in order to encourage companies to commitment to an acceptable accounting conservatism level.