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Abstract:- This study aims to analyze the effect of stock accountability, so that the good and bad performance of
ownership, independent board of commissioners and management is measured by the amount of profit achieved by
characteristics of the audit committee on creative the enterprise. If the enterprise's financial performance is
accounting practices. The object of this research is a state- considered less profitable so that it does not match
owned company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange expectation, then the management will tend to manage its
for the 2016-2020 period. A total of 90 companies became financial statements so it can impress the investor. This is what
the research sample which were tested using purposive triggers the management team to implement Creative
sampling method. Based on the results of the multiple Accounting.
regression analysis conducted, it can be concluded that
managerial ownership has a negative effect on creative According to Bhasin (2016), Creative Accounting is a
accounting practices. The expertise of the audit committee practice that follows (or may not) follow accounting principles
has a positive effect on creative accounting practices. or standards, but deviates from the real goal in order to show
Institutional ownership, independent board of the image desired by the enterprise to stakeholders. The term
commissioners, audit committee activity and audit can be equated with disclosure management in terms of
committee independence have no effect on creative intervention in the financial statements process (Schipper,
accounting practices. The implications of the results of this 1989). The emergence of Creative Accounting practices is
study is for accountants to be wiser in making decisions caused by market pressure on business entities to be able to
that are beneficial to stakeholders. meet profit targets as expected by the market. This market
pressure has an impact on the income generation for the
Keywords:- Stock Ownership, Independent Board of management, so the manager decides to carry out earnings
Commissioners, Characteristics of the Audit Committee, and management in influencing the profit figure which results in a
Creative Accounting Practices. decrease in the quality of financial statements. Watts &
Zimmerman (1986) in their book on positive accounting
I. INTRODUCTION theory propose three hypotheses of earnings management
motivation, namely: (1) the bonus plan hypothesis, (2) the debt
Financial statement is a medium describing how the covenant hypothesis, and (3) the political cost hypothesis.
enterprise's financial performance is the basis for internal and However, other studies have found evidence that earnings
external parties in making better decisions in the future. In management can be limited by good corporate governance
preparing financial statements, an accountant in Indonesia (Klein, 2002; Dechow, 1996; Beasley, 1996).
must follow the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
(Jaelani, 2014: 1). The purpose of the establishment of According to Indonesian Institute for Corporate
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles is as a standard that Governance (IICG), corporate governance is a series of
synchronizes the financial statements of an entity in a country mechanisms that direct and control a enterprise so that the
that produces financial statements, making it easier for the enterprise's operations run in accordance with the expectations
reporting process to be known as an audit. In addition, this of stakeholders who apply the principles of transparency,
principle also provides flexibility for practicing accountants in accountability, responsibility, independence, and fairness. The
a business entity to choose the accounting method used in classification of good corporate governance mechanisms
preparing financial statements. However, in practice, this according to Lins & Warnock (2004) is divided into two
accounting standard has limitations that can cause the groups, namely internal mechanisms and external
enterprise's management to carry out Creative Accounting mechanisms.
practice activities on its financial statements, making financial
statements less reliable. The method for controlling the enterprise by using an
external mechanism is the existence of institutional ownership.
Every enterprise has expectation of obtaining high and Institutional investor is considered capable of being an
stable profits because in the Statement of Financial effective monitoring mechanism in every decision taken by
Accounting Concept No. 1 states that profit is one of the main managers. According to Bernandhi (2013), institutional
indicators for measuring performance and management ownership is ownership of a enterprise's shares by institutions
IV. RESULT
Hypothesis 4
The count value of t equal to 0,003 with a significance value
of 0.235>0,05, therefore the decision is H0 rejected. So, it can
be concluded that there is a positive influence between the Table 5. R Square Test
activity of audit committee (X4) and Creative Accounting Source: Data processing, SPSS 25.0 version
practices (Y).
From the table above obtained coefficient of
Hypothesis 5 determination or Adjusted R Square valued at 0.457 or 45.7%
The count value of t equal to 0,226 with a significance means the variation of independent variables used in the model
value of 0.02<0,05, therefore the decision is H0 rejected. So, it of Proportion of institutional ownership (X1), managerial
can be concluded that there is a positive influence between the Ownership (X2), independent board of commissioners (X3),
expertise of audit committee (X5) and Creative Accounting the activity of audit committee (X4), the expertise of audit
practices (Y). committee (X5) and the independence of audit committee (X6)
are able to explain by 45.7% dependent variable that is Creative
Hypothesis 6 Accounting practices (Y), while the remaining 54.3%
The count value of t equal to -0,015 with a significance influenced by other factors outside the variables studied.
value of 0.866>0,05, therefore the decision is H0 rejected. So,
it can be concluded that there is a negative influence between
the independence of audit committee (X6) and Creative
Accounting practices (Y).
V. DISCUSSION