Abstract :
The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of
leverage and financial distress on accounting conservatism. The issue of this
research is the different prediction between positive accounting theory and
signaling theory about the effect of financial distress on accounting coservatism
and according to debt covenant hypothesis prediction that the larger the debt to
equity ratio, the companies more likely to be optimist in reporting financial
statement. The population of this research are minning companies listed in the
Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2012-2014. The sample selection by purposive
sampling method and 36 companies qualified as sample or 108 observations. This
research used logistic regression for data analysis and to test hypothesis. The
result of empirical test indicate that the financial distress has a negative
significant effect on accounting conservatism, these result support positive
accounting theory prediction, but the leverage has not significant effect on
accounting conservatism.
Key words : Accounting Conservatism, Leverage, Financial Distress, Logistic
regression