FINANCIAL CONDITION MODERATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUDIT COMMITTEETOREDUCE EARNINGSMANAGEMENT
(1) Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Surabaya
(2) Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Surabaya
(3) Faculty of Business and Economics, Universitas Surabaya
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
Some cases of financial fraud invite inquiries about the effectiveness of corporate
governance mechanism in financial distress companies. This study empirically
examines whether the financial distress moderate the impact of corporate governance
mechanism to earnings management. The sample of this study is manufacturing
companies listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2010 -2012. Discretionary
accruals are used as a proxy for earnings management, while financially distressed and
non-distressed firms are identified based on Altman Z-score test. Corporate governance
mechanism is measured by four characteristics of the audit committee, i.e. size (total
number of audit committee members), independence (audit committee composition),
activity(frequency of audit committee meeting), and expertise (the number of audit
committee have finance or accounting background).This study finds that (1) financial
distress does not moderate the impact of total members of audit committee to earnings
management; (2) financial distress does not moderate the impact of frequency of audit
committee meeting to earnings management; (3) financial distress does not moderate
the impact of audit committee composition to earnings management; (4)financial
distress moderates the impact of audit committee finance/accounting knowledge to
earnings management. These results suggestthat the effectiveness corporate governance
is low, and finance/accounting literacy of audit committee should be alert.
Beberapa kasus manipulasi keuangan pada perusahaan yang mengalami kesulitan
keuangan mengundang pertanyaan terkait efektifitas mekanisme tata kelola perusahaan.
Penelitian ini secara empiris menguji apakah kondisi kesulitan keuangan dapat
memoderasi pengaruh mekanisme tata kelola perusahaan terhadap manajemen laba.
Sampel dari penelitian ini adalah perusahaan sektor manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa
Efek Indonesia periode 2010-2012.Discretionary accruals digunakan sebagai proksi
untuk manajemen laba, sedangkan kondisi kesulitan keuangan diidentifikasi
menggunakan uji Altman Z-score. Mekanisme tata kelola perusahaan diukur dengan 4
karakteristik komite audit, yaitu ukuran (jumlah anggota komite audit), independensi
(komposisi komite audit), aktivitas (frekuensi pertemuan komite audit), dan keahlian
(jumlah anggota komite audit yang memiliki latar belakang keuangan atau akuntansi).
Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa (1) kondisi kesulitan keuangan tidak memoderasi
pengaruh jumlah anggota komite audit terhadap manajemen laba; (2) kondisi kesulitan
keuangan tidak memoderasi pengaruh frekuensi pertemuan komite audit terhadap
manajemen laba; (3) kondisi kesulitan keuangan tidak memoderasi pengaruh komposisi
komite audit terhadap manajemen laba; (4) kondisi kesulitan keuangan memoderasi
pengaruh jumlah anggota komite audit yang memiliki latar belakang keuangan atau
akuntansi terhadap manajemen laba. Hasil ini menunjukkan bahwa efektifitas tata
kelola perusahaan masih rendah dan anggota komite audit yang memiliki latar belakang
keuangan atau akuntansi harus mewaspadainya.
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