PENGARUH UKURAN PERUSAHAAN, PERTUMBUHAN ASET, DAN PROFITABILITAS TERHADAP STRUKTUR MODAL

Abstract

The capital structure is the permanent financing of the company which reflects the comparison
between long term debt and own capital. In the determination of the source of fund which will be used,
and how much the amount of proportion of each the finance source which is being used, also how
muchthe proportion of eachsource of funds, the company will analyze some factors in order
toobtainoptimalcombination ofcapital structure. This research is meant to find out the influence of
variables i.e. firm size, assets growth, and profitability to the capital structure of the company at
Cosmetics and household companies which are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2010-2014
periods. The samples in this research are 3 Cosmetics and household companies which are listed in
Indonesia Stock Exchange and these companies have been selected by using purposive sampling. The
research data is the secondary data which has been obtained from the financial statement of Cosmetics
and household companies which are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX).The result of this
research shows that firm size and profitability have significant influence to the capital structure.
Meanwhile, the assets growth does not have any influence to the capital structure.

Keywords:capital structure, firm size, assets growth, profitability.