Abstract :
This study aimed to examine the effect of good corporate governance,
profitability, and leverage to earnings management practices. Good corporate
governance represented by transparency, accountability, responsibility,
independence and fairness. This study uses secondary data company in the
category of state-owned enterprises listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The
sample is 33 companies in the category of SOEs with the period 2010-2012
through purposive sampling method. The data is taken from the 33 state-owned
company listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2010 -2012. This is an
empirical study using Partial Least Square (PLS) for data analysis. Based on the
results of the study concluded that corporate governance and profitability
beperngaruh significantly positively to earnings management. These results prove
that good corporate governance and profitability may not be able to reduce the
amount of earnings management. While leverage is shown to have a significant
negative effect on earnings management.
Keyword : Good corporate governance, profitability,leverage, earning
management, PLS.