Analysis of Financial Ratio in Predicting Financial Distress in Consumer Goods Industry Listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange

Financial distress is a stage of decline in conditions that occur in companies before bankruptcy. This study aims to examine liquidity ratio, leverage ratio, profitability ratio, and activity ratio to predict financial distress in the consumer goods industry that listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange. This study uses secondary data obtained from companys' financial statements the period 2014 to 2018. Consumer goods industry is one of the manufacturing industries that give big impact to economic growth in Indonesia. Based on data analysis, it can be concluded that (1) there is no significant effect on current asset in predicting financial distress, (2) there is a significant effect on the debt to equity ratio in predicting financial distress, (3) there is a significant effect on return on asset in predicting financial distress, and (4) there is a significant effect on the total asset turnover ratio in predicting financial distress. As an effort to decrease the companys' financial distress management of consumer goods listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange needs to make priority on the policies about debt to equity ratio, return on asset and total asset turnover. Further researchers need to choose and add the other antecedent of financial distress and also may extend the research model by using the mediator or moderator variable to analyze the indirect effect among variables. Furthermore, further researches need to develop wider study object to produce the better result more generally and objectively. Keywords: Financial Distress, Liquidity Ratios, Leverage Ratios, Profitability Ratios, Activity Ratios