ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study to analyze the effect of managerial ownership, institutional ownership and firm size of the company's debt policy. The population of this study using the criteria : (1) manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in a row during 2011 to 2013, (2) the company has managerial ownership (managerial ownership) as Director and Commissioner registered as shareholders (shareholders). Based on the criteria of population, it is obtained a total of 39 companies. Sampling was carried out with saturated sampling method that all members of the population is used as a sample. Analysis of the data in this study using multiple regression. The results showed that managerial ownership, institutional ownership significantly and negatively related to debt policy. The size of the company a positive impact on debt policy. In the implementation of the operation , the company should reduce the proportion of debt financing in order to reduce financial distress, because the funding of the company's debts caused financial distress and agency cost is greater than the tax savings from debt interest expense, as a result companies are particularly vulnerable to economic shocks. In addition, the Company should increase firm size so that more have a more stable cash flow which can reduce the risk of the use of debt in order to avoid the risk of bankruptcy in the future .Keywords : managerial ownership , institutional ownership , firm size ,and debt policy
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