Corporate Governance and Earnings Management: Empirical Evidence of the Distress and Non-Distress Companies

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):  
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 ◽  
pp. 2154
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Shinta Oktaviani ◽  
Dodik Ariyanto

This study aims to determine the effect of financial distress, company size, and corporate governance on audit delay. This research was conducted at mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015-2017. The number of samples taken was 32 companies so that there were 96 observations, with a purposive sampling method. The analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression. Based on the results of the analysis found that financial distress and independent board of commissioners have positive effect on audit delay. Firm size, audit committee and institutional ownership have negative effect on audit delay. Keywords: Financial distress, firm size, corporate governance, audit delay


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Elvira Try Oktaviani ◽  
Mu'minatus Sholichah

This research aims to analyze the effect of earnings, cash flow, and corporate governance to predict financial distress. The Corporate governance in this study using the indicator frequency of board meeting,  competence of audit committee, and  institutional ownership. This research used annual report of the manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange at the period of 2016-2018. The technique of selecting samples in this research uses purposive sampling and analyze data using logistic regression analysis. The result of this research showed that earnings and institutional ownership has an effect on the financial distress condition. While cash flow, frequency of board meeting, and competence of audit committee doesn’t has an effect on the financial distress condition.


Author(s):  
Cahya Adhi Kusuma ◽  
Amrie Firmansyah

ABSTRACT This study is aimed to examine the effect of earnings management, corporate governance, and auditor quality on agresivitas pajak. Using samples from manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2011 to 2015, the data will be examined with regression multiple analysis. The results of this study indicate that earnings management has a positive impact to tax aggresiveness. While corporate governance which consists of the percentage of institutional ownership, the percentage of independent commissioners, and the total member of the audit committee shows that those have no impact to agresivitas pajak. Lastly, auditor quality also have no impact to agresivitas pajak as well. KEYWORDS: Earnings Management, Corporate Governance, Auditor Quality, Tax Aggresiveness


2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Viriany, Liana Susanto, Henny Wirianata, Yanti

This research was to obtained empirical evidence about the influence of leverage, profitability, institutional ownership, independent comissioner, audit committee to the Real Earnings Management of the manufacturing companies listed at Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2015-2017.This research uses 64 companies that were selected using purposive sampling method. In this study, the hypotheses tested using the multiple regression model.The results showed that only profitability has significant influence.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Metta Kusumaningtyas ◽  
Dessy Noor Farida

The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of audit committee and institutional ownership on earnings management. The characteristics that used to measure the effectiveness of the audit committee competence,and audit committee activity. Institutional ownership is measured by the number of proportion of shares held by institutional shareholders divided by the number of shares issued. Earnings management in this study weremeasured by using the value of discretionary accrual. The population in this study is manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2007-2012. Based on purposive sampling method, the number of samples in this study of 300 samples. Testing the hypothesis using multiple regression analysis. The results of hypothesis testing indicate that audit committee competence and audit committee activity had a significant negative effect on earnings management. Instead institutional ownership had not influence on earnings management.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Metta Kusumaningtyas ◽  
Dessy Noor Farida

<p>The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of audit committee characteristics and ownership structure on earnings management. The characteristics which are used to measure the effectiveness of the audit committee are audit committee independence, audit committee competency, audit committee activity and audit committee size. Ownership structures are characteristics of public ownership, institutional ownership, and managerial ownership. Earnings management in this study were measured by using the value of discretionary accrual. The population in this study is manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2007-2012. Based on purposive sampling method, the number of samples in this study was 66 samples. Testing the hypothesis used multiple regression analysis. The results indicate that audit committee independent, audit committee size and institutional ownership had a significant negative effect on earnings management. Instead the others variables such as audit committee competency, audit committee activity, public ownership and managerial ownership did not influenced on earnings management.</p>


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.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Made Ratih Baskaraningrum ◽  
Agus Fredy Maradona

ABSTRACT            The purpose of this research is to investigate the concept of the importance of the role of good corporate governance in the banking industry in Indonesia. Specifically, this study intends to examine whether good corporate governance plays a role in improving company performance, especially by limiting earnings management practices. This study focuses on banking companies in Indonesia that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Determination of company samples in this study was carried out by purposive sampling method, with the criteria of banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the 2014-2016 period. The data collection method used in this study was the method of documentation study. The data analysis method used is Path Analysis.The results of the Square Multiple Correlation for earnings management amounted to 0.795 and banking performance was 0.860, so for earnings management variables influenced by managerial ownership, institutional ownership, the size of the independent board of commissioners, the audit committee amounted to 79.5%. While banking performance variables are influenced by managerial ownership, institutional ownership, board of commissioners size, the proportion of independent commissioners, audit committees and earnings management is 86%. Empirical benefits in research are about the application of corporate governance, earnings management and financial performance in the banking industry in Indonesia. The practical benefits in this study can provide benefits for companies in the application of appropriate corporate governance and benefits for investors who invest their capital in the company and can also be taken into consideration for companies to reduce profit management in the company so as to improve banking performance in Indonesia.


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