scholarly journals The effect of financial distress and earnings management on tax aggressiveness with corporate governance as the moderating variable

Author(s):  
Ratih Pujirahayu Nugroho ◽  
Sutrisno T Sutrisno ◽  
Endang Mardiati

This study aims to verify the correlation between financial distress and earnings management of tax aggressiveness moderated by corporate governance. This study uses a population of manufacturing companies that publish their financial statement on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2017 until 2018. Sample collection was performed using a purposive sampling method, resulting in a total of 212 populations that published complete financial reports. This study was tested by using the Multiple Regression Analysis test. This research gave empirical proofs that financial distress and real earnings management positively influenced the tax aggressiveness was supported, the proportion of independent commissioners weakened the financial distress and negatively impacted the tax aggressiveness was supported, the total audit committees weakened the financial distress and negatively influenced the tax aggressiveness was not supported, the proportion of independent commissioners and total audit committees weakened the real earnings management and negatively affected the tax aggressiveness was not supported

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Sholehudin Adi Nugroho ◽  
Amrie Firmansyah

This study is aimed to examine the effect of financial distress, real earnings management, and corporate governanceon tax aggressiveness. Using samples from manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2011 to 2015, the data will be examined with fixed effect approach method. The results of this study indicate that financial distress does not affect on tax aggressiveness. While from real earnings management variables, only through manipulation of sales as which affects positive significantly on tax aggressiveness. On the contrary, manipulation of the production and manipulation of discretionary expenses precisely give the opposite effect. In addition, corporate governance consists of the audit committee and the percentage of institutional ownership can reduce tax aggressiveness, meanwhile the third measure (the percentage of independent commissioners) shows the opposite result..


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Anggi Aditya Fahmi ◽  
Priyo Hari Adi

The purpose of this study is to find out how the influence of companies with family ownership and liquidity on tax aggressiveness which is moderated by corporate governance in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2016. Corporate governance is proxied using independent commissioners and audit committees. The sample used in this study amounted to 212 selected using the purposive sampling method. The data analysis technique used are moderated regression analysis (MRA). The results showed that family ownership did not affect the tax aggressiveness, this means that companies with family ownership do not determine the company's actions in conducting tax aggressiveness. Liquidity has a significant positive effect on tax aggressiveness. The moderating variable of independent commissioners can moderate the influence of family ownership and liquidity on tax aggressiveness, while the moderating variable of the audit committee can moderate liquidity but cannot moderate family ownership against tax aggressiveness.    


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-217
Author(s):  
Husnaini Dwi Wanri ◽  
Erinos NR

This study aims to examine the effect of business strategy and financial leverage as moderated by corporate governance in predicting real earnings management. This type of research is a causal association with a quantitative approach. The population used in this study are all manufacturing companies listed in Bursa Efek Indonesia 2016-2019. The sampling technique in this study using the purposive sampling technique, there are 80 manufacturing companies used as research samples. The business strategy variables are measured by the cost leadership strategy model for the current year. Earnings management variables are calculated by aggregating the triggering factors for earnings management, namely sales manipulation, overproduction, and discretionary spending. The leverage variable is calculated by the ratio of debt to assets and the moderating variable is measured by the proportion of share ownership by the managerial party. The data used in this study is secondary data obtained from the company's financial statements obtained from the official website of the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the official website of each company. The analytical method used is the multiple regression method which is processed using the SPSS 16 application. The results show that business strategy, financial leverage has a significant positive effect on real earnings management, CG can increase or weaken the relationship between business strategy, leverage on real earnings management but not significantly


Owner ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-318
Author(s):  
Ayu Aditia Hariyani ◽  
Andi Kartika

This study aims to examine and find empirical evidence regarding the influence of corporate governance as explained by managerial ownership, institutional ownership, independent commissioners, audit committee on financial distress in manufacturing companies listed on the IDX for the 2017-2019 period. In this study, leverage, profitability and company size are used as control variables. The population in this study are all manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2017-2019. The sample was selected using purposive sampling method and the results get a sample of 361 companies. The analytical tool used in this study is logistic regression. The test results show that managerial ownership has no effect on financial distress. Meanwhile, institutional ownership, independent commissioners, and audit committees have an effect on financial distress. Leverage and company size as control variables show results that are not in accordance with their function, namely that they do not affect financial distress, and profitability as control variables show results that are in accordance with their function and have an effect on financial distress


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Maria Goreti Kentris Indarti ◽  
Jacobus Widiatmoko ◽  
Imang Dapit Pamungkas

This study aims to examine the effect of four variables, which include independent commissioners, audit committees, institutional ownership and managerial ownership as a proxy for the corporate governance mechanisms on financial distress. This was carried out on the manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2016-2018. The samples were selected using the purposive sampling method and 224 data were obtained. The hypothesis in this study was tested using logistic regression. The results showed that independent commissioners have a negative influence on financial distress, while the audit committee, institutional ownership and managerial ownership have no effect. This implies that an independent commissioner functions as an effective supervisory mechanism to prevent a company from experiencing financial distress. Furthermore, two control variables used in this study, namely leverage and profitability, were able to produce results as predicted. It was discovered that a higher leverage level leads to a greater possibility of experiencing financial distress and conversely, the higher the profitability of a company, the lower the probability of experiencing financial distress.


Author(s):  
Theresia Theresia ◽  
Dewi Kurnia Indrastuti ◽  
Nico Alexander

Objective - The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical research on the effect of corporate governance on earnings management in distressed and non-distressed companies. Corporate governance in this research is measured by independent board, audit committee, board of commissioners, institutional ownership and number of board commissioner meetings. The research predicts that corporate governance has a negative effect on earnings management either both in distressed and non-distressed companies. Methodology/Technique - This research uses 309 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange and the data was obtained using purposive sampling method during 2016 until 2018. Of the 309 respondents in the sample, 287 are distressed companies and 22 are non-distressed companies. The data was analyzed using a multiple regression method. Findings - The empirical results show that commissioner board and institutional ownership have a negative effect on earnings management in non-distressed companies but in distressed companies, corporate governance does not have an effect on earnings management. This research shows that distressed companies, corporate governance cannot minimize earnings management practices because to maintain the company as a going concern, management will do earnings management to ensure stakeholders’ trust to encourage further investment in the company. In non-distressed companies, corporate governance can minimize earnings management practices because the company is in a good financial condition, so they don’t need to do earnings management. Additionally, in order to ensure stakeholders’ trust, the company will strengthen its’ corporate governance mechanisms. Type of Paper: Empirical. JEL Classification: M41, M43, G34, J33, K22. Keywords: Financial Distress; Earnings Management; Non-Financial Distress; Indonesia Stock Exchange. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Theresia; Indrastuti, D. K; Alexander, N. (2021). Corporate Governance and Earnings Management: Empirical Evidence of the Distress and Non-Distress Companies, Accounting and Finance Review, 5(4): 23 – 30. https://doi.org/10.35609/afr.2021.5.4(3)


Author(s):  
Putu Ery Setiawan ◽  
I Made Pande Dwiana Putra

This study discusses real earnings management and classification shifting along with accrual earnings management as an alternative strategy for companies that experience financial distress, and differences in choices of strategies at each stage of financial distress. This research was conducted on all manufacturing companies which experienced financial distress among those listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for six years from 2012 to 2017. Purposive sampling was used to collect data from all the manufacturing sector companies listed on the IDX that experienced financial distress. The sample companies totaled to 43 with a total of 258 observation data. The multiple linear regression technique was used in data analysis, analysis aided by SPSS. The results of this study indicate that in the early stages of financial distress, companies tend to choose the real earnings management strategy in the form of decreased production and classification shifting. While in the later stages the chosen strategy is real earnings management through a reduction in selling, general and administrative expenses. Finally at extreme stage, companies tend to adopt income-decreasing accruals strategies Keywords: Financial distress, accrual earnings management, real earnings management, classification shifting


Author(s):  
Theresia ◽  
Dewi Kurnia Indrastuti ◽  
Nico Alexander

The purpose of this research is to get empirical study the effect of corporate governance on earnings management on distress and non-distress companies. Corporate governance in this research measured by independent board, audit committee, board of commissioner, institutional ownership and number of board commissioner meeting. The research problem are corporate governance has a negative effect on earnings management either in distress companies and non-distress companies. This research used 309 manufacturing companies companies that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange and the data were selected using purposive sampling method during 2016 until 2018. From 309 sample, 287 sample are distress companies and 22 companies are non-distress companies. The data were analyzed using multiple regression method The empirical result show that, commissioner board and institutional ownership has negative effect on earnings management in non-distress companies but in distress companies, corporate governance do not have effect on earnings management. From this research show that when companies in distress companies, corporate governance cannot minimize earnings management practice, but in non-distress companies corporate governance can minimize earnigns management practice. Keywords: Corporate Governance, Earnings Management, Financial Distress, Discretionary Accrual


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-192
Author(s):  
Nera Marinda Machdar

The tax collected by the government utilizes to finance the state and regional expenses. In Indonesia, the realization of tax revenues is always smaller than the planned tax revenue set by the Government. This is probably because many companies carry out earnings management so that the taxes paid are aggressive. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of earnings management on tax aggressiveness. This study uses a sample of manufacturing companies as an analysis unit listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the 2011–2016 observation period. This study found some of the following: first, accrual earnings management has a positive effect on tax aggressiveness. Second, real earnings management has a positive effect on tax aggressiveness. Third, the liquidity control variable tested does not affect tax aggressiveness. Keywords: Earning Management, Real Earning Management, Tax Aggressiveness


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Masri

The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of family ownership on real earnings management with corporate governance as a moderation variable in this relationship. This research is also looking at the role of accrual earnings management as a substitute in the relationship accrual earnings management with real earnings management in a family company. This study uses data 61 manufacturing companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2010 to 2013. The research results according to which hypothesized that family firms tend to negatively affect with real earnings management. The role of corporate governance as strengthening internal oversight negative effect on family companies with real earnings management. The results also proved the existence of a relationship of substitution for family firms tend to be doing accrual earnings management than real earnings management. This is because on the one hand the motivation of control as a strong incentive to do accrual earnings management in the family company, while on the other hand, the family companies tend to dislike real earnings management for their negative performance impact.


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