Over the past three decades, the relationship between profitability and return on equity has been in the center of accounting research. Several researchers have studied the relation between stock returns and earnings quality based on financial ratios. Currently, the return on equity has been accepted as a reality in financial management and one of the objectives of accounting information is to help users predict profits investor confidence in financial markets on financial reporting.
The term earnings quality refers to the ability of managers in optional items use in measuring and reporting on the profitability.
Optional items may include selection and application of accounting principles or standards of estimates and timing of transactions to recognize unusual items in the profit. The quality of earnings has been of particular interest to researchers over the past three decades, It has been trying to achieve a reasonable and valid approach in earnings quality assessment and identify the factors influencing it (Desai et al, 2009).Earnings quality is considered when it comes to financial analysts to determine what extent the reported earnings reflect actual profits .Investors' perception of the concept of real earnings is that profit from operations is ordinary and is repeated in future fiscal years, and is generating cash flows .The concept of earnings quality refers to two features of usefulness in decision-making and the link between earnings quality and stock returns .This figure is calculated and can be detected on the basis of accrual ratios. This study used the size, return on assets and return on the firm variables as a control variables.