Efektivitas Komite Audit Dan Kualitas Audit Terhadap Earnings Management Pada Perusahaan Terdaftar Di BEI

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the audit committee and audit quality on earning management. This research is quantitative by using multiple linear regression. In addition, this study uses 496 samples of non-financial sector business entities listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2014-2015. Practice Earning management will be proxied with discretionary accrual. The audit committee will be proxied with the number of audit committees, independent audit committees, audit committee expertise, and frequency of meetings of the audit committee. At audit quality will be proxied with auditor's reputation, industry specialist auditor, and audit tenure.
The results show that audit committees and auditor reputation have an affective role in decreasing earning management. The audit committee and industry specialization auditors have no effect on earning management. Similarly, the audit committee and long audit period also no effect on earning management. On the audit committee, audit tenure, and industry specialist auditors have no effect on earning management. However, the auditor’s reputation has a negative effect on earning management.
Keywords: Audit Committee, Audit Quality, Earning Management.