Production cost is important in determining selling price and as a basis for management decision making to decide whether products manufacturing will be continued or discontinued. In addition, production cost has influence on firm’s profitability level; the smaller production cost, it will be inversely in proportion to its profitability. The purpose of this study is to see how far the role of production cost affects profitability. By making some adjustments in production cost such as making efficiency, total number of the company’s profitability can be increased compared to production cost which is still high. The research done at PT Sakti Kandakawana, located in Bogor. The result shows that PT Sakti Kandakawana is still be able to improve profitability by making some corrections on productionn cost. The assumption is the same number of selling will get higher profitability if it’s used lower production cost. Due to ineffective cost decreases more and more, the company has fund by efficiency without affecting products quality.  Based on the evaluation, it shows that the production cost applied so far is still wasteful caused by raw materials used are expensive. In addition, it appears that cost for overtime work is not effective campare to cost for regular work. Thereby, when more efficient production cost is determined, the company’s profitability can be increased.   Keywords:Production Cost; Company’s Profitability

Galeri Investasi Perguruan Tinggi terus dikembangkan di berbagai Kampus. Sebagai bagian dari Pengembangan Galeri Investasi, peningkatan pemahaman mahasiswa sebagai calon investor terkait pengetahuan investasi perlu pula dilakukan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengukur pemahaman mahasiswa tentang Pengetahuan Pasar Modal, Pengetahuan Jenis Instrumen Investasi, Pengetahuan Tingkat Keuntungan Investasi, Pengetahuan Tingkat Risiko Investasi dan Pengetahuan Dasar Penilaian Saham. Penelitian dilakukan bulan Mei – Juli 2019 kepada 200 orang Mahasiswa Anggota Galeri Investasi STIE Kesatuan Bogor. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan masih belum optimalnya pemahaman mahasiswa tentang Pengetahuan Investasi di Pasar Modal (pemahaman kategori baik). Hal yang belum dipahami dengan baik adalah tentang Pihak yang memiliki Kelebihan Dana antara Masyarakat atau Perusahaan, Tempat Memperoleh Saham, masih bercampurnya konsep keuntungan yang diperoleh instrumen investasi di pasar modal dan perbankan, dan bentuk risiko investasi saham berupa tidak mendapatkan dividen dan kemungkinan bangkrut bagi perusahaan yang telah go public.   Kata Kunci : pengetahuan investasi, galeri investasi perguruan tinggi, mahasiswa, pasar modal

Galeri Investasi Perguruan Tinggi didirikan sebagai bagian dari langkah meningkatkan jumlah investor dari kalangan mahasiswa. Minat berinvestasi dapat meningkat seiring dengan peningkatan pengetahuan investasi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pengaruh Pengetahuan Pasar Modal, Pengetahuan Jenis Instrumen Investasi, Pengetahuan Tingkat Keuntungan Investasi, Pengetahuan Tingkat Risiko Investasi dan Pengetahuan Dasar Penilaian Saham terhadap Minat Mahasiswa Berinvestasi di Galeri Investasi. Penelitian dilakukan terhadap 200 orang Mahasiswa Anggota Galeri Investasi STIE Kesatuan Bogor pada bulan Mei – Juli 2019. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Pengetahuan Tingkat Keuntungan Investasi dan Pengetahuan Dasar Penilaian Saham berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat berinvestasi mahasiswa.

Assets management is an ability of a company in managing all of its assets that take a leading role in a company’s operation and it can be expected to create benefit. The assets management will be able to show that the company is capable to control its performance efficiently and effectively. The objective of this study is to find out the influence of assets management (X) –  utilizing indicators: TATO, FATO, and WCTO – to the company’s financial performance (Y) by indicator-OPM. This study was done at two manufacturing companies, PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk. and Astra International Tbk., in the period 2005 – 2010. To test the significance of the influence of assets management to the financial performance of the two companies, the author analyzes and measures the correlation and influence between the variables in this study, using correlation coefficient (r) and determination coefficient (r square) and regression coefficient (β). Based on the result of this study it can be found out that the assets management of PT Holcim Indonesia Tbk. and PT Astra International Tbk. by indicator-TATO has significant influence to OPM. By indicator-FATO, the assets management does not have significant influence to OPM. Assets management by indicator-WCTO does not have significant influence to OPM. The significant level is set at 0,10 or 10%. This insignificance of FATO and WCTO to OPM is due to the financial performance is financed by its total assets.   Keywords: assets management; financial performance

The Higher Education Investment Gallery was established to increase the number of investors from students. Empirical study showed that investment knowledge has a significant effect on investment intentions of individual investors.