Last modified: 2017-06-22
Abstract
This research is conducted to determine the association of the earnings management practice with corporate borrowing capacity through the corporate reputation. The earnings management practice is measured by discretionary accruals based on modified jones model. The corporate reputation is measured by corporate image award published by Frontier Consulting Group. The corporate borrowing capacity is measured by the change of bank debt to total assets. Hypotheses are tested using multiple regression analysis and two staged ordinary least square with 65 observations of listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012 and 2013. The results of the research give empiric evidence that earnings management practice have a significant negative association with corporate reputation, while corporate reputation have a significant positive association with corporate borrowing capacity. The result of this research also shows that there is a positive significant association between earnings management practice and borrowing capacity while there is a positive significant association between corporate reputation estimated by earnings management practice towards borrowing capacity.