Analisis Pengaruh Karakteristik Dewan Terhadap Asymmetric Cost Behavior pada Perusahaan yang Terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia Tahun 2014-2018

Analyzing the effect of the board characteristics on asymmetric cost behavior is the aim of this study. Asymmetric cost behavior is dependent variable, while board characteristics are an independent variable in which there are changes in sales, decrease dummy, interaction term, the board size, and non-executive ratios. In addition, the control variable is owned by institutional ownership. The data population was 1570 data obtained from 314 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2014-2018. Data samples that had been tested and experienced deviations were 336 samples, therefore, the number of data analyzed is equal to 1234 samples. The annual financial statements were used in this study as secondary data and quantitative research. The result of the study is board characteristics have significant positive effect of changes in sales and interaction terms on asymmetric cost behavior and significant negative effect of decrease dummy on asymmetric cost behavior. The non-significant variable has negative effect on board size and institutional ownership on asymmetric cost behavior, while the ratio of non-executive has positive non-significant effect on asymmetric cost behavior.

Asymmetric Cost Behavior Across Life Cycle Stages

The traditional model of cost behavior has been criticized for its symmetric cost behavior assumption. A new model has been proposed assuming that costs respond differently to upward and downward activity changes. The main objectives of this paper are to investigate the existence, degree, and nature of asymmetric cost behavior (ACB) phenomenon and examine how the organization life cycle (OLC) affects this phenomenon in the context of Egypt. The current study achieves these objectives by employing multiple regression to explore the behavior of cost of goods sold (COGS), selling, general and administrative cost (SGA), and total cost (TC) for 1577 firm-year observations (99 manufacturing firms) during the period from 2000 to 2019. The results demonstrate that all three cost proxies (COGS, SGA, and TC) are sticky with the highest degree of stickiness to TC. In addition, OLC is a conditional factor that affects how costs behave in response to change in activity level. Consistent with theoretical propositions, both COGS and TC exhibit anti-stickiness behavior for firms in the introduction stage and stickiness behavior for firms in the growth, mature, and shakeout/decline stages. However, SGA is only sticky for firms in the mature stage. However, the hypotheses related to asymmetric behavior of SGA were rejected for firms in the introduction, growth, and shakeout/decline stages.