Corporate governance quality, firm size and earnings management: empirical study in Indonesia Stock Exchange
Earnings management (EM) is manipulation done by management in preparing financialstatement in order to gain management advantages or to increase the firm value.EM can reduce the quality of financial statements because it does not show the realearning periodical. This research aims to identify the effect of good corporate governance(GCG) (institutional ownership, managerial ownership, frequency of boardmeetings, frequency of audit committee (AC) meetings), firm size, and leverage on theEM. Population comprises the companies in LQ 45 index of Iindonesia Stock Exchange(IDX) for the period 2010–2014. Samples of the research were taken using purposivesampling method, and the variables are tested using multiple linear regression analysis.The results of the research show that partially, only leverage has significant effect onEM, while institutional ownership, managerial ownership, frequency of board meeting,frequency of AC meetings, and firm size have no significant effect on EM, but all ofthe variables have simultaneously significant effect on EM. Limitations of the researchare the only used 6 independent variables and 21 companies as samples of the research