Impact of integrated reporting implementation on cost of capital
List of Authors
  • Ade Wahyudi , Khalida Utami

Keyword
  • integrated reporting, cost of capital, cost of debt, cost of equity

Abstract
  • This study aims to examine one of the factors that reduce the cost of capital of a company, which has the potential to provide an explanation for the tendency to increase the disclosure of companies that adopt integrated reporting (IR). The samples taken and selected in this study are based on purposive sampling for companies that meet the measurement criteria on each research variable with SOE companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange that have published IR in 2020-2022. The results in this study indicate that disclosure in IR has a negative and significant effect on the cost of debt and has no effect on the cost of equity. These results indicate that corporate disclosure in the form of IR, which is an annual report that integrates financial and non-financial performance, only affects the company's cost of debt.

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