Pengaruh reputasi auditor dan cash holding terhadap perataan laba dengan profitabilitas sebagai variabel moderasi
P Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) Pengaruh reputasi auditorterhadap perataan laba, (2) Pengaruh cash holding terhadap perataan laba, (3)Pengaruh profitabilitas sebagai pemoderasi reputasi auditor terhadap perataan laba.(4) Pengaruh profitabilitas sebagai pemoderasi cash holding terhadap perataan laba.Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah perusahaan manufaktur periode 2015-2019 yangterdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Metode penelitian menggunkan purposivesampling daengan data sekunder laporan keuangan perusahaan. Sampel yang akandigunakan adalah 48 perusahaan manufaktur selama tahun 2015-2019 (240 sampelpenelitian). Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik analisis uji regresi logistik dengandengan variabel kontrol berupa laverage, sales growth, assets growth, profit growthdan ukuran perusahaan .Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa: (1) Reputasi auditor tidakberpengaruh terhadap income smoothing, (2) Cash holding berpengaruh signifikandan positif terhadap income smoothing, (3) Profitabilitas tidak memepengaruhikekuatan pengaruh reputasi auditor terhadap income smoothing. (4) Profitabilitasmemperkuat pengaruh cash holding terhadap income smoothing
T This research aims to determine: 1) The effect of auditor reputation onincome smoothing, (2) The effect of cash holding on income smoothing, (3) The effectof auditor reputation moderating by profitability on income smoothing. (4) The effectof cash holding moderating by profitability on income smoothing. The population inthis study are manufacturing companies for the 2015-2019 period listed on theIndonesia Stock Exchange. The research method uses purposive sampling withsecondary data from the company's financial statements. The sample used is 48manufacturing companies during 2015-2019 (240 research samples). This study useslogistic regression analysis techniques with control variables: leverage, sales growth,assets growth, profit growth and company size.Based on the results of the study, it is known that: (1) Auditor reputation hasno effect on income smoothing, (2) Cash holding has a significant and positive effecton income smoothing, (3) Profitability does not affect the strength of the influence ofauditor reputation on income smoothing. (4) Profitability strengthens the effect ofcash holding on income smoothing