| Summary: | Earnings management occurs due to a conflict of interest between
shareholders and management. Discretionary accruals is a proxy of earning
management, it is an accrual accounting method that provides flexibility for
management to choose a particular accounting method. The main purpose of this
research is to examine the effect of audit committees, institutional ownership, public
ownership and disclosure index to earnings management. The sampling method used
is purposive sampling. The samples used were 27 companies that consistently include
in LQ 45 for three years, in 2010-2012, so this study using 87 samples. This study
used multiple linear regression analysis. The methods of analyzing consist of the
classical assumption test, F test and t test.
The results of this study indicate that the independence of the audit committee,
audit committee effectiveness and public ownership have a significant effect on
earnings management while institutional ownership structure and disclosure index
has no effect on earnings management.
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