Abstract:

Cash holdings is defined as firm’s liquid asset that can be used to finance their investment activities or it can be distributed to shareholders as dividend. According to pecking order theory, to minimize asymmetric information cost and other financing cost, firms will finance their investment activities first from their internal financing then with safe debt and risky debt, and finally with equity. A firm needs cash to finance their operating activities such as paying wages or paying taxes. Cash can be obtained from various ways such as product sales, new financing, or the selling of assets. The cash inflows and cash outflows are not perfectly synchronized, therefore cash holdings act as a buffer (Ross, 2019). This paper aims to investigate the determinants of corporate cash holdings and estimate the cash holdings speed of adjustment on non-financial firms listed in IDX. The method utilized in this paper is panel data techniques. Our results suggest that cash holdings are positively affected by cash flow and dividend payout ratio. Firm size, leverage, capital expenditure, net working capital and market to- book are negatively related with cash holdings. Our result also shows that firms with higher cash holdings than the target level have a higher speed of adjustment than firms with cash holdings that is lower than the target level.