The objective of this research was to explore factors affecting the selection of property plant and equipment revaluation influencing discretionary accruals of listed companies in real estate and construction sector in Stock Exchange of Thailand during the period of 2011 - 2013. Data were collected from 294 samples and analyzed by logistic regression analysis and t-test in order to test the hypothesis. The results revealed that debt and property investment ratios affected the selection of revaluation accounting policies. Furthermore the research revealed that sample firms selecting property plant and equipment revaluation had significantly higher discretionary accruals than those firms who applied cost method at 0.05 significant level of statistics.

The objective of this research aimed to study factors affecting earning persistence and firm value of list firms in the stock exchange of Thailand in set 100 Index. The data was collected in 5 years period from 2011 – 2015 which including 213 samples and then analyzed data by using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The research revealed growth rate of sales current earnings and cash flow for short term investment reflected to earnings persistence. Furthermore this research also shed some light on factors affecting firm value and found that earnings persistence financial risk dispersed ownership structure and discretionary accrual directly affected to firm value. These results provided more information to investors about significant factors for decision making especially discretionary accrual factor. Therefore firms who have low level of earnings management and high level of earning persistence will reflect to future firm value.