Analysis of the Impact of Managerial Ownership, Institutional Ownership, Firm Size, Leverage, Profitability and Sales Growth Toward Earnings Management in Manufacturing Companies Listed on IDX in the 2015-2019 Period

Abstract

The phenomenon of earnings management is very interesting to research because it can provide an overview of the behavior of managers in reporting their business activities in a certain period, namely the emergence of earnings management caused by managers by manipulating company profits to be higher, lower, or always the same for several periods. Certain motivations encourage them to manage or manage financial data, especially reported earnings. This study aims to analyze a model regarding the effect of Managerial Ownership, Institutional Ownership, Firm Size, Profitability (ROA), Leverage (DER), and Sales Growth toward Earnings Management in Manufacturing Companies listed on the IDX in the 2015-2019 period. The type of non-probability sampling used in this study is purposive sampling because the sampling technique is based on certain considerations. Certain considerations in determining the sample or respondent in this study are manufacturing companies that are consistently listed on the IDX website during the 2015-2019 period and companies that have managerial and institutional share ownership data respectively during the observation period. The number of samples (N) used was 285 data obtained from 57 manufacturing companies with a 5year study period. The result of the study concludes that Managerial Ownership, Institutional Ownership, Company Size, and Leverage (DER) do not affect Earnings Management. Meanwhile, Profitability (ROE) and Sales Growth have a significant positive effect on Earning Management.