PENGARUH STRUKTUR KEPEMILIKAN DAN LEVERAGE TERHADAP EARNING MANAGEMENT PADA PERUSAHAAN YANG MELAKUKAN IPO DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA

Abstract

IPO firm is one way of firm to develop and expend their businesses. One of the requirements for companies who want to go public is by issuing financial reports. With a good financial reports can be used to attract investors and affect the company’s rising stock price. To attract the investors is one of the reasons for the deviation of funds. Earnings management is the management actions in the form of interference in the process of preparing the financial statements with the intent to increase personal prosperity and to enhance shareholder value. This study aimed to detect whether the variable leverage and ownership structure influence on earnings management before going public and after going public, an indication of earnings management before going public and after going public that conducted by the companies that do an IPO. This study using a sample of research firms that conduct an IPO from 2005-2006 with using the financial statements as much as 4 years. This study used two research models. In the first study model, leverage and ownership structure variables became an independent variables and earnings management as the dependent variable was examined with simple regression model. In the model a second study using the Wilcoxon test level. The research shows that the first hypothesis is rejected, the second hypothesis is accepted, the third hypothesis, hipoteis fourth hypothesis is rejected and the fifth and sixth accepted based on the Wilcoxon statistical test can be seen that there are indications that firms manage earnings at the time before and after the initial public offering by Increasing income discretionary accruals.