Abstract :
This study aimed to test whether there is the influence of company characteristics,
namely firm Profitability, Management Ownership, firm size, and the leverage of
social information disclosed by the company. This study can be used as a
benchmark the basic decision-makingsocial disclosure manufacturing companies
listed on yhe stock Exchange in 2009-2011. The data used in the from of annual
reports of companies sampel of 25 companies in 2009-2011. Statistical methods
used in this study was multiple regression. The result of this study indicate that the
Firm Profitability, Management Ownership, firm size and the leverage has a
significant influence on the amount of social information disclosed by the company.
Keywords: Characteristics of firm, number of social inforrmation disclosed.