Analisis Pengaruh Corporate Social Responsibility terhadap Earnings Management: Etis atau Oportunis?

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the influence of CSR and Asia sustainability Reporting Rating (ASRRAT) on Earnings Management (EM). This study also used managerial ownership as a moderating variable. The data were collected from 72 sustainability and/or annual reports of non-financial companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2018 to 2019 that were withdrawn using purposive sampling method. The data from the sustainability report was coded using content analysis, while moderated regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses. The results show that the environmental disclosure negatively affects the earnings management, the social one, has a positive effect, but the economics disclosure and ASRRAT's rating have no influence. Managerial ownership fails to moderate the relationship between CSR, ASRRAT's rating, and earnings management The results of this study demonstrate that in disclosing CSR activities, managers tend to exploit their opportunistic incentives by making CSR disclosure to mask EM practices. The results of this research suggest that investors need to be more careful in making investment decisions, especially in companies which report a lot of social disclosures.