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Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Performance of Rural Banks in Central Java – Indonesia

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This study aims to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of conventional rural banks in Central Java. The data used in this study is panel data from 175 companies for 4 years (2018 to 2021). The data is in the form of rural bank financial reports obtained by downloading from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) website. Data analysis was carried out descriptively and inferentially. Inferential analysis was used to test the proposed hypothesis, namely the paired sample t-test. The results of this study indicate that Covid-19 has a significant negative impact on rural bank performance, namely reducing Return On Assets (ROA) and Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR) and increasing Non Performing Loans (NPL).

Earning Management of Corporate Social Responsibility Mediation and Corporate Governance on Financial Performance (An Empirical Study on Idx Mining Corporates 2016-2020)

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This study aims to examine and analyze corporate social responsibility and corporate governance on financial performance and, through earning management as a mediating variable. Financial performance is the dependent variable which is proxied by ROA and MVA. The independent variables in this study were corporate social responsibility as proxied by 91 GRI 4.0 indicators and corporate governance as proxied by independent commissioners and institutional ownership. Earning management as a mediating variable proxied by discretionary accruals. This study uses a sample of 35 mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2020. The data used in this study is secondary data analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis path models with the help of SPSS 25 software, and corporate governance has a positive and significant effect on financial performance. Meanwhile, earning management has a negative and significant effect on financial performance. Corporate social responsibility has a positive and significant effect on earning management, while corporate governance has a negative and significant effect on earning management. Earning management mediates full corporate social responsibility on financial performance, while the board of commissioners partially mediates on financial performance.

How Does ESG Score and Board Structure Affect Financial Performance? Evidence from ESG Sector Leaders IDX Kehati

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The rise of sustainable investing, an investing strategy considering ESG (environmental, social, governance) factor of the company has spread worldwide, including in Indonesia. Recent phenomena of minimum percentage of woman on board in state-owned enterprise policy by Indonesia Ministry of State-Owned Enterprise and the new two ESG themed index which consists of state-owned enterprise has intrigued to assess the relationship between board structure towards financial performance of the companies. One of the index is “ESG Sector Leaders IDX KEHATI“ which  comprises of stocks with an ESG performance assessment above their industrial average value. Using ROA and ROE as the dependent variable and ESG and board structure variables and firm size, asset to equity ratio, and firm age as control variables. It is found that ESG has negative non-significant relationship towards both ROA and ROE. Board independence and board gender diversity has positive significant effect towards both ROA and ROE.