ANALISIS PENGARUH KEBIJAKAN DIVIDEN DAN UKURAN PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP LEVERAGE PERUSAHAAN DENGAN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY SET (IOS) SEBAGAI VARIABEL MODERASI PADA SEKTOR TRADE, SERVICES & INVESTMENT YANG TERDAFTAR DI BEI
In the year 2017 there is a decrease in buying interest of the community, can be seen from the declining growth rate of business sub-sector that is retail company. This study aims to test empirically analysis of the effect of dividend policy and firm size on corporate leverage with investment opportunity set (IOS) as a moderation variable. The sample is done by using purposive sampling method. The data used are secondary data in the form of financial statement data from the retail industry sub-sector (retail trade) from 2014-2016. The result of this research shows that dividend policy has negative and insignificant effect to company leverage, firm size has negative and significant effect to company leverage. While using Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) indicates that Investment Opportunity Set (IOS) have positive and insignificant effect to company leverage and Investment Opportunity Set (IOS) also have positive and insignificant effect to company leverage.