scholarly journals Analysis of Factors Affecting Income Smoothing Among Listed Companies in Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erly Sherlita ◽  
Putri Kurniawan

This study examines the factors that influence income smoothing practice, such as firm size, profitability, financial leverage, and net profit margin. Grouping among the companies that perform income smoothing, and that does not do income smoothing using Eckel index to net income for the manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. The research sample totaling 68 companies with a sub-sample of 204 financial reports. Observations were made during the three years, from 2008 to 2010. Statistical analysis using binary logistic regression to determine the factors that influence income smoothing. The results showed that the variables of profitability and net profit margins have significant differences between smoothing company profits by not smoothing profits, while the variable firm size and financial leverage has no significant difference. Test results using a multivariate binary logistic regression either simultaneously or separately on the four independent variables thought to affect the practice of income smoothing apparently no one has proved influential. Thus it can be concluded that firm size, profitability, financial leverage, and net profit margin has no effect on the practice of income smoothing.

AKUNTABILITAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242
Author(s):  
Dhea Ramadani Mirwan ◽  
Muhammad Nuryatno Amin

The aim of this research is to prove the effect of financial leverage, profitability, net profit margin and firm size to the income smoothing. Population of this research is manufacturing companies listed at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) for the period of 2016-2018 with sampling determined by purposive sampling. Data analyzed using logistic regression (binary logistic regresion). The results of this research showed that financial leverage and profitability have negative effect to income smoothing, and at the opposite net profit margin has positive effects  to income smoothing. Whereas firm size has no effects to income smoothing


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
William Sanjaya, Lukman Suryadi

The purpose of this empirical research is to examine the effect of firm size, financial leverage, profitability, and cash holding against income smoothing in the manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2014-2016. This research uses 63 manufacturing companies that were selected using purposive sampling method for a total of 189 data in three years.In this study, the hypotheses test is performed using the logistic regression model.The results showed that profitability, cash holding and firm size has no effect on income smoothing. Financial Leverage has a negative influence on income smoothing.


2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rini Tri Hastuti

The purpose of this research is to reexamine the factors allegedly effecttoincome smoothing, whiches firm size, profitability, financial leverage, institutional ownership. The sample of this study consisted of 59 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2013 until 2015. To determine the status of grading company and not a profit grader used Eckel index. As for answering research hypothesis used Logistic Regression analysis tools. The results of this study concludes that income smoothing taken by the company to go public in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). Multivariate testing using the Logistic Regression showed thatfirm size, profitability, financial leverage has significant effect on income smoothing. While, the variable institutional ownership had no significant effect on income smoothing.


2018 ◽  
pp. 830
Author(s):  
Ni Luh Made Sutaryani ◽  
Made Sadha Suardikha

The purpose of this study is to be able to determine the effect of changes in ROA, OPM, company size and leverage to the practice of income smoothing. Locations in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Stock Exchange with the object of research is the practice of income smoothing and elements - elements that affect earnings. The population of 158 companies with logistic regression as the research method used in this study. The result of this research is ROA, OPM and leverage have no effect to the practice of income smoothing while firm size have an effect on Practice income smoothing significantly. Keywords: income smoothing, ROA, Return On Asset, OPM, Operating Profit Margin, Leverage, company size.


Liquidity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Henny Mulyati

This research is to determine the influence of firm size, reputed auditor, ROA, institutional ownership, managerial ownership, net profit margin, financial leverage on income smoothing for property companies listing in Indonesian Stock Exchange. The data used in this study is secondary data by purposive sampling method. The number of samples used are 24 companies using multiple regression analysis. This results showed that partially there are significantly influence between firm size, reputed auditor and managerial ownership. The other variables i.e ROA, managerial ownership, net profit margin, financial leverage are not significantly influence income smoothing.


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Umi Murtini ◽  
Aditya Denny O.S

This study aims to exmine the effect of firm size, profitability, financial leverage, and dividend payout ratio on income smoothing tendency. The grouping of firms with income smoothing and without income smoothing use eckel index. Using binary logistic regression analysis, results shows that firm size and profitabilitas influence on income smoothing tendency.  Meanwhile, financial leverage and dividend payout ratio don’t influence on income smoothing tendency. Keywords: income smoothing, profitabilty, size


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Yolanda Sesilia ◽  
A. Zubaidi Indra ◽  
Chara Pratami Tidespania Tubarad

This study aimed to examine the effect of Firm Size, Financial Leverage, Dividend Payout Ratio, and Firm Value toward Income Smoothing in BUMN Companies Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange.  Income Smoothing measured by Index Eckel’s.  The Population in this study is BUMN companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015-2019 Based on the purposive sampling method, the sum of a sample obtained from the population is 16 companies.  Sources of data obtained from annual reports of companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015-2019.  The analytical method for this study uses logistic regression analysis and Mann Whitney test with SPSS 21.  Based on the result of the analysis showed Firm Size, Financial Leverage, Dividend Payout Ratio, and Firm Value are not influence Income Smoothing. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 2864
Author(s):  
Ni Made Ayu Pinatih ◽  
Ida Bagus Putra Astika

The purpose of this study is to obtain empirical evidence of the influence of company size, profitability, financial leverage, and cash holding on income smoothing practices. The population in this study were 126 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2018. The method of determining samples by purposive sampling. The number of samples obtained was 48 samples with observations over 5 years so there were 240 observations. The practice of income smoothing is calculated using the eckel index and the analysis technique used is logistic regression analysis. The results of the analysis in this study indicate that company size, profitability, financial leverage, and cash holding have a positive effect on the income smoothing practices of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2014 to 2018. This study can provide additional knowledge about the effect of company size, profitability, financial leverage and cash holding on income smoothing practices. Keywords : Company Size; Profitability; Financial Leverage; Cash holding; Income Smoothing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Sherly Tiana ◽  
Karina Harjanto

The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of profitability, financial, dividend payout ratio and firm size towards income smoothing. The dependent variable of this research is income smoothing measured by Eckel Index. The independent variables of this research are profitability measured by Net Profit Margin (NPM), financial leverage measured by Debt to Assets Ratio (DAR), Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR), and firm size measured by natural logarithm assets. The samples were determined based on purposive sampling method. The sample of this research are 11 manufacture companies that listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2016-2018. Secondary data used in this research was analyzed by using logistic regression method. The result of this research are (1) profitability (NPM) has no positive effect towards income smoothing, (2) financial leverage (DAR)  has no positive effect towards income smoothing, (3) Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR) has no positive effect towards income smoothing, (4) firm size  has significant negative effect towards income smoothing, (5) profitability, financial leverage, Dividend Payout Ratio, and firm size has significant effect towards income smoothing.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Bunga Maharani ◽  
Dwi Ratna Wulandari

The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of free cash flow, return on equity, current ratio, firm size and net profit margin on dividend policy that measured by dividend payout ratio. The population of this study are all manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX).The period of this study are 2008-2011. Based on purposive sampling method, 19 companies were used on the study. The sample were gathered from annual reports and ICMD. This study used multiple linear regression as analysis method with 5% significant level. The results of the study indicate that free cash flow and return on equity have positive effect on dividend policy, while current ratio, firm size and net profit margin have no significant effect on dividend policy. Keywords: Dividend Policy, dividend payout ratio (DPR), free cash flow (FCF), return on equity (ROE), current ratio (CR), firm size (FZ) and net profit margin (NPM).


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