scholarly journals Does Corporate Governance Moderate the Effect of Earnings Management on Tax Aggressiveness

Author(s):  
Dewi Prastiwi
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


Author(s):  
Nico Alexander ◽  
Silvy Christina

Objective - The purpose of this research is to empirically examine the effect of corporate governance, ownership and tax aggressiveness on earnings management. Methodology/Technique - The population of this research consists of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) between 2013 and 2015. This research uses 3 recent years and utilizes different variable that have not been used in prior research. The 67 samples were choose using a purposive sampling method. The hypotheses are tested using multiple regression analysis with the SPSS program, to investigate the influence of each independent variable on earnings management. Findings - The results show that the board of director have a positive influence on earnings management, while board independence, audit quality, managerial ownership, and tax aggressiveness have no influence on earnings management. Novelty - This research add value in the existing literature and empirically study the effect of the board of directors, independence of the board, audit quality, managerial ownership, and tax agressiveness on earnings management. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Ownership; Tax Aggressiveness. JEL Classification: M40, M41, M49.


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..


Author(s):  
Fivi Anggraini

Earnings management is the moral hazard problem of manager that adses because of the conflict of interest between the manager as agent and the stakeholder and the owner as principal. The behavior of earnings management will immediately influence the reported earning. The aims of this research at examining the relationship of board and audit committe to earnings management. The samples of this research is all of companies member Corporate Governance Perception Index (CGPI) in the years of 2003-2006 which were listed in Jakarta Stock Exchange. The results of this study show that (1) the proportion of independent directors on the board had not significant relationship to earning management, (2) competence of independent directors on the board had not significant relationship to earning management, (3) the size of board had significant relationship to earning management, (4) the proportion of independent directors on the audit committe had not significant relationship to earning management, and (5) competence of members of the audit committe had significant relationship to earning management.


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