Abstract :
This research aims to examine the influence of accounting
conservatism to good corporate governace with earnings quality as an
intervening variable. The variables were used in this research are Good
Corporate Governance (Y) as the independent variabel and Accounting
Conservatism (X1) and an intervening variable Earnings Quality (X2) as
the independent variable.Populationofthisresearchis theconventional
bankingindustrylistedin Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period of 2010-
2014. By using purposive sampling technique, it results 111 samples to be
identified. The proxy of Good Corporate Governance variable is composite
value of 11 indicators. Accounting Conservatism is measured by accruals
and Earnings Quality by discretionary accruals.Method of analysis used in
this research is Multiple Regression Analysis. The result of this study shows
that Accounting Conservatism does not affect Good Corporate Governance.
In other hand, intervening variable which uses earnings quality is proved
does not interven the relationship between accounting conservatism towards
Good Corporate Governance.
Keywords :good corporate governance, conservatism accounting, earnings quality, bank industry, puposive sampling method,multiple linear regression.