This research objective is to observe the influences of good corporate governance, analyst coverage, company life cycle, investment opportunities set, size, and profitability towards the dividend policy. This study employs the corporate data from Indonesian Stock Exchange during 2005-2008 and weighted least square methods. The latest sample is 279 years of observation. The result shows that only life cycle stage of the company and its profitability are influential towards the dividend policy. The findings show that the relationship between the good corporate governance is consistent with the hypothesis but not significant.

This research examines the effect of ownership structure and good corporate governance on firm performance. The research variables used were foreign ownership, institutional ownership, government ownership, size of the board of commissioners, and size of non-financial sector companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange throughout 2013-2017. This study deployed a quantitative approach through multiple linear regression analysis, with a total sample of 1,650 observations. The research findings were foreign ownership, government ownership; board commissioner size had a significant positive effect on firm performance while institutional ownership and firm size had a significant negative effect on firm performance.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of board size, managerial ownership, institutional investors, profitability, size, and growth as the independent variables on the capital structure of all nonfinancial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. This study used a quantitative perspective with linear regression and panel data models with a number of research observations of 1,625, consisting of 325 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange over the period of 2012-2016. The results of the study prove that managerial ownership, profitability, and size had a significant negative effect on capital structure. Whereas growth had a significant positive effect on the capital structure and board size and institutional investors had no significant effect on capital structure (debt ratio).

This study aims to analyze the effect of corporate governance on transparency as measured by stock return synchronicity. The variables used are board size (commissioner), big4 audit, institutional ownership, market to book, the volatility of firm fundamentals, leverage, and firm size. This study uses a quantitative approach with multiple linear analysis models. This study uses a sample of non-financial business entities listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). The number of samples used in this study was 198 observations. The results showed that the variable board size (commissioner), institutional ownership, and leverage had a positive effect on transparency, and the implied volatility of the firm hurt transparency. Other variables such as big4 audit, market to book ratio, and firm size do not affect transparency.

This study aims to analyze the effect of working capital management on the profitability of companies in Indonesia and Philippines. This study uses secondary data from companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange and Philippines Stock Exchange in the 2014-2018 period.  The sample used in this study includes manufacturing sector companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange and Philippines Stock Exchange in that period. This research uses multiple linear regression method. Working capital is measured using cash conversion cycle, accounts receivable conversion period, inventories conversion period, and accounts payable deferral period. The results of the Indonesian sample show that the cash conversion cycle and its components, namely the accounts receivable conversion period, the inventories conversion period, and the accounts payable deferral period have a significant positive effect on firm profitability. For the Philippine sample, the result of the study show that the cash conversion cycle and its components does not have a significant effect on firm profitability. Keywords: cash conversion cycle, accounts receivable conversion period, inventories conversion period, accounts payable deferral period