The Effect of Cash Flow, Board Independence, and Company Size on Financial Distress

Abstract

Covid-19 has affected the world’s economic sectors, including Indonesia. This can be seen from the declining of the company’s operational activities until the threat of the company to become bankrupt, so that it can influence the stability of the country. The government tries its best to recover the economy. Therefore, the objective of this research is to test the effect of cash flow, board independence, and company size on financial distress. It is classified as causal research with quantitative approach. The population used in this research is all transportation and logistics companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) period 2019-2021. The sampling technique is simple random sampling with Slovin formulation, so that there are 72 samples used after outliers. All the information of the samples are obtained from the annual financial statements downloaded from the official company’s websites. The analysis technique is multiple regression linear with SPSS 22 as a research tool. The results indicate that cash flow has a significant effect on financial distress whereas board independence and company size do not have significant effects on financial distress.