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The Effect of Leverage and Financial Distress on Earnings Management with Good Corporate Governance as the Moderating Variable

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  • Anugerah Iman Hrp
  • Isfenti Sadalia
  • Khaira Amalia Fachrudin

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Every investor wants his company’s financial statement to be in accordance with the condition of the company. In practice, it often occurs that a company does profit management to attract investors’ interest. The factors which can increase the practice of profit management are leverage and financial distress. The objective of the research was to find out and to analyze the influence of leverage and financial distress on profit management with good corporate governance as moderating variable in banking companies in Indonesia. The research used descriptive explanatory method. The data were gathered by conducting documentary study. The population was 42 banking companies listed in BEI (Indonesia Stock Exchange) and the population target was 30 companies. The gathered data were analyzed by using path analysis with E-views 7.0 Software program. The result of the first model showed that leverage and financial distress simultaneously had positive and significant influence on profit management in banking companies in Indonesia at the coefficient determination (R2) of 0.1243 or 12.43%. Partially, leverage had positive and significant influence on profit management, and financial distress had negative but significant influence on profit management in banking companies in Indonesia. The result of the second model showed that institutional ownership as moderating variable could not weaken and strengthen the influence of financial distress on profit management and was considered as potential moderation. The result of the third model showed that managerial ownership as moderating variable could weaken the influence of leverage on profit management and was stated as quasi moderation. It can also weaken the influence of financial distress on profit management and was stated as quasi moderation. The result of the fourth model showed that independent commissioners as moderating variable could not weaken or strengthen the influence of leverage on profit management as was stated as potential moderation. Independent commissioners as moderating variable could not weaken or strengthen the influence of financial distress on profit management and was stated as moderating predictor.

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  • Anugerah Iman Hrp & Isfenti Sadalia & Khaira Amalia Fachrudin, 2017. "The Effect of Leverage and Financial Distress on Earnings Management with Good Corporate Governance as the Moderating Variable," Academic Journal of Economic Studies, Faculty of Finance, Banking and Accountancy Bucharest,"Dimitrie Cantemir" Christian University Bucharest, vol. 3(4), pages 86-95, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:khe:scajes:v:3:y:2017:i:4:p:86-95
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    Keywords

    Leverage; financial distress; profit management; good corporate governance;
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    JEL classification:

    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets

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