This research is conducted to find out the effect of investment opportunity set and free cash flow towards dividend policy and its impacts on firm value of manufacturing companies registered in Indonesia Stock Exchange during the period of 2011-2013. The samples of this study are 25 manufacturing companies and they were selected by using purposive sampling method. The data is collected through non participants’ observation. Path analysis which is an extension of the multiple linear regression technique is used to analyze data. Based on the data analysis, it was found that, investment opportunity set has positive effects on dividend policy. It refuses the negative hypothesis, free cash flow has positive effects on dividend policy, investment opportunity set has positive effects on firm value, free cash flow has positive effects on firm value, dividend policy has positive effects on firm value, investment opportunity set has effects on firm value  through dividend  policy  and free  cash flow has no  effects on firm value  through  dividend   policy.  

Tujuan perusahaan bukan hanya untuk memperoleh keuntungan, namun juga berorientasi pada kemakmuran pemegang saham melalui peningkatan nilai perusahaan. Nilai perusahaan dicerminkan dari harga sahamnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh profitabilitas, free cash flow, dan ukuran perusahaan pada nilai perusahaan. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada perusahaan consumer goods yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia selama periode 2011-2015. Jumlah sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 24 perusahaan dengan metode pengambilan sampel menggunakan metode non probability sampling. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah observasi non partisipan. Teknik analisis yang digunakan adalah analisis regresi linear berganda. Berdasarkan hasil analisis ditemukan bahwa profitabilitas dan ukuran perusahaan mempunyai pengaruh positif pada nilai perusahaan. Sementara free cash flow tidak berpengaruh pada nilai perusahaan.

Tax aggressiveness is the act of manipulating profits carried out through tax planning that can be both legal and illegal. Based on the agency theory, the different interests of agents and principals may become a source of conflict. The aim of this study is to determine and obtain empirical evidence on the effect of executive characteristics, profitability, leverage, capital intensity, and company size on tax aggressiveness. This research was conducted on manufacturing companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016-2018, because the Indonesian economy has started to recover since 2016 and continued until 2018, so it will have an impact on tax revenues. The sample was selected using purposive sampling technique and obtained 70 manufacturing companies. Data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that executive characteristics, profitability, and company size had a positive effect. While leverage and capital intensity had negative effect on tax aggressiveness. Keywords:  Tax aggressiveness, executive characteristics, profitability, leverage, capital intensity, company size.

Initial Public Offering (IPO) is one of the motivations of the occurrence of earnings management practices. Earnings management is done by a company to obtain a positive

The purpose of this research is to know the influence of corporate governance and leverage on agency cost. This research is done within the scope of the firms that listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. Observation is done in all sectors of the firms in 2009-2013. Samples are defined by using purposive sampling method thus 92 samples are obtained that match with criteria. This research uses multivariate regression as analysis technique. The hypothesis of this research said that corporate governance and leverage have a negative influence on agency cost. The result shows that corporate governance and leverage have positive and significant influence on agency cost. This research prove that the increasing of corporate governance and leverage in a firm, agency cost also increased.