The effect of environmental performance and accounting characteristics to earnings informativeness

4th International Seminar on Sustainable Urban Development

地球科学;经济学

Herawaty, V.^1

Faculty of Economic and Business, Universitas Trisakti, Jakarta, Indonesia^1

关键词: Earnings response coefficients;    Environmental measures;    Environmental performance;    Growth opportunities;    leverage;    Manufacturing companies;    Multiple regression analysis;    PROPER;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/106/1/012077/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/106/1/012077

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The objective of this empirical study is to analyze the influence of environmental performance and company's accounting characteristics to earnings informativeness proxied by earnings response coefficient (ERC) on manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange and consistently follow the PROPER assessment in 2010-2014. One of the company's considerations is to create the green environment reflecting its environmental measures, drawing investors to respond to the company's environmental performance. The data were obtained from Indonesian Capital Market Directory (ICMD), the Indonesia Stock Exchange homepage, the company's annual reports, the decree of the Minister of Environment. The samples used in this research are 27 go public manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange that consistently follow the PROPER in 2010-2014. The sampling technique used was the purposive method. This research uses multiple regression analysis. The results show that the environmental performance and profitability have a positive influence to earnings informativeness, while leverage has a negative influence to earnings informativeness. Growth opportunities as a control variable has a positive effect on earnings informativeness. This research has proved that the environmental performance is crucial through observing the investors' reaction in the capital market.