The Effects of Leverage, Sales Growth, Firm Size, and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure on Earnings Response Coefficient

Abstract

Financial information owned by a company is considered as a good signal for investors to make investment decisions, so they tend to see the earnings information as a benchmark, but other information is needed to predict the value of the company's stock returns, which is the earnings response coefficient. Therefore, a test is needed to find out how the influence of independent variables, namely leverage, sales growth, firm size, and corporate social responsibility disclosure, on the dependent variable, earnings response coefficient. This research was conducted to take the population of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018. This research data was processed using Eviews. This study used 58 samples of manufacturing companies based on purposive sampling method. The results showed that leverage had a negative and significant effect on ERC, sales growth had a positive and significant effect on ERC, while firm size and corporate social responsibility disclosure did not.