Authors : Hidanti Karina; Muhyarsyah
Volume/Issue : Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 2 - February
Google Scholar : http://bitly.ws/9nMw
This research aims to analyze and prove
empirically the Influence of Profitability, Leverage,
Company Size, Audit Quality, Tax Avoidance to the
Profit Management (Empirical Study on Consumer
Goods Industry Company in the Stock Exchange 2014 –
2018 Period). This research used secondary data,
obtained from the annual reports of the companies. The
companies used in this research are 29 out of 31
companies, where in the sampling selection using a
purposive sampling. Whereas the data analysis method
used is panel regression analysis method processed by
using the help of microsoft excel and eviews 10
softwares.
The research results by using the random effect
model panel data regression test showed that: 1)
Profitability (ROA) has an influence to the profit
management, 2) Leverage (DER) has an influence to the
profit management, 3) Company size has no infuence to
the profit management, 4) Audit quality has no infuence
to the profit management, 5) Tax avoidance has an
influence to the profit management.
Keywords : Profitability, Leverage, Company Size, Audit Quality, Tax Avoidance, Profit Management