The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between audit committee, audit quality, ownership structure and earnings management. In this paper, earnings management was measured by using Beneish M-Score model which consist 5 variables which are days sales in receivable index, gross margin index, asset quality index, sales growth index and total accruals to total assets to determine M-Score of each company. Research samples are Indonesian manufacturer companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) by the year 2013 up to 2015 exclude companies that suffer losses, not / have not been registered in the period of observation and companies with incomplete data. The results showed that the audit committee, audit quality and ownership structure did not have a significant effect on earnings management measured using Beneish M-Score models.
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