Pengaruh Leverage, Sales Growth, Ukuran Perusahaan dan Komposisi Dewan Komisaris Independen Terhadap Financial Distress

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This research is a quantitative study that aimed to examine the effect of leverage as measured by DER, sales growth as measured by the formula of sales growth ratio, company size measured by Ln total assets and the composition of independent directors as measured by the results of the division between the number of independent directors and the number of commissioners companies to financial distress. The population in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the websites of each company for the period of 2016-2018 selected using the probability sampling method. Hypothesis testing in this study uses Multiple Linear Regression Analysis with SPSS program and a significance level of 5%. Hypothesis testing results show that (1) leverage has a significant negative effect on financial distress (2) sales growth has a significant positive effect on financial distress (3) company size has no effect on financial distress (4) the composition of independent directors has no effect on financial distress.