Jurnal Akuntansi
Vol. 22 No. 3 (2018): September 2018

The Effect Of Audit Committee Financial Expertise And Relative Status On Earnings Management: Case Of Indonesia

Delfita Siagian (Faculty of Economics and BusinessUniversitas Indonesia)
Sylvia Veronica Siregar (Faculty of Economics and BusinessUniversitas Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Sep 2018

Abstract

The aim of this research is to examine the effect of audit committee financialexpertise (measured by audit committee experience in accounting, supervision, andfinancial)and audit committee status (relative to management) on earnings management.Our samples consist of 384 observations in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the year 2012-2014. The result of this research shows that audit commite financial expertise has nosignificant effect on earnings management. However, we find evidence that auditcommittee financial expertise haspositive effect on income decreasing accruals. Thisfinding indicates that audit committee may perceived that conservatism is one of themechanism to restrict management opportunistic behavior. We do not find significantevidence of the joint effect of audit committee status and audit committeee expertise onearnings management.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EJA

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Akuntansi [p-ISSN 1410-3591 | e-ISSN 2549-8800] is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year (January, May, and September) by Faculty of Economics, Universitas Tarumanagara. Jurnal Akuntansi is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on ...