Effect of the Director Compensation Payout on Earnings Quality

The objective of this research is to examine the effect of profitability, firm age, firm size, audit quality, and leverage both partially and simultaneously towards earnings quality. The testing method used in this research is multiple regressions. The objects of this study are property, real estate and construction companies which were listed at Kompas 100 for the period 2010-2012. The samples are 15 companies determined based on purposive sampling. The data used in this study are secondary data such as financial statements and historical stock prices. The results of this study are (1) firm age has a negative significant effect on earnings quality, meanwhile firm size has a positive significant effect on earnings quality (2) profitability, audit quality, and leverage partially have an insignificant effect towards earnings quality (3) profitability, firm age, firm size, audit quality, and leverage simultaneously have a significant effect towards voluntary auditor switching. Keywords: ERC, earnings quality, profitability, firm age, firm size, audit quality, leverage.

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PENGARUH EARNINGS MANAGEMENT TERHADAP EARNINGS QUALITY

Jurnal Kajian Akuntansi dan Auditing ◽

10.37301/jkaa.v0i0.5078 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Pupun Tri Wahyuni ◽

Resti Yulistia Muslim

Keyword(s):

Earnings Management ◽

Sampling Method ◽

Stock Exchange ◽

Earnings Quality ◽

Manufacturing Companies ◽

Financial Report ◽

Earnings Response Coefficient ◽

Discretionary Accrual ◽

Response Coefficient ◽

Earnings Response

This research objective is to axamine empirically the influence of earnings management on earnings quality. The study motivated by the controversy of previous study about earnings management and earnings quality. Earnings management was measured by Discretionary Accrual and earnings quality was measured by Earnings Response Coefficient (ERC). The units were 128 (16x8) Quartal financial report in manufacturing companies listed in the Jakarta Stock Exchange, started from the year 2005 up to 2006. The data was collected using purposive sampling method. Statistical method used to test the hypotheses was multiple regressions. The result of the research showed that: the influence of earnings management on earnings quality was negative, sig 0.049. It means that the lower earnings management will be followed by higher earnings quality. This study supported the result of Fetham and Pae (2000), Nelson et al. (2000), Scott (2000), Lobo and Zhou (2001), also Teixeira (2002), Pudjiastuti (2006).

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