by the data coming from multiple pharmaceutical
companies in Indonesia, such as PT Kalbe Farma,
Tbk, and PT. Kimia Farma, Tbk showing that they
had experienced a slowdown of their business
growth in the year of 2015 – 2017 (Fauzia, 2018).
This is a serious issue considering that
pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia were able to
supply as many as 70 percents of domestic medical
demands in 2017 (Ministry of Industry of the
Republic of Indonesia, 2017). If the E-Catalogue is
continued with disregard of the pharmaceutical
companies' financial condition, it is possible for
these companies to face bankruptcy. It is not
difficult to imagine the bitter consequence if medical
supplies for patients in Indonesia are declining or,
for worse, disappearing. It is not impossible for the
patent medicines that are not produced as generics to
vanish from the Indonesian market. The case could
get worse if all the medical supplies are put in the E-
Catalogue with prices decided by the LKPP (The
Government of Procurement Goods/Services) that
are too cheap to the pharmaceutical companies. If
this scenario happens, the patients are put at high
risk of losing proper medical healthcare.
This research intends to analyze the financial
distress prediction of pharmaceutical companies in
Indonesia. The bankruptcy of a company in general
often begins with financial distress within the
company and an unpredictable profit rate in the
future.
The bankruptcy of a company is often marked
with financial distress in it and the uncertainty of
profit in the future. The financial distress predictive
analysis will be done by looking up through
financial reports of all pharmaceutical companies
registered to the Indonesia Stock Exchange within
the year of 2014 – 2017 by using four prediction
methods of company bankruptcy. The selection of
the year will be based on the ongoing year of the
government's E-Catalogue program.
2 THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORKS
Altman and Hotchkiss (2010) state that there are
four general terms used to describe the inability of a
company in resolving its problems, namely failure,
insolvency, default, and bankruptcy. Failure is a
condition where the return rate made by the
company from its investment is significantly and
consistently lower than the general return rate.
Insolvency is a situation where the company's
performances are declining showed by their inability
to pay their liabilities or debts – which in return
indicates the lack of liquidity within the company.
Default is a condition where the company fails to
pay the debt and the interest within the deadline that
can be caused by the contract failure between the
company and the investor. Bankruptcy occurs when
the company is facing the uncertainty of survival
caused by its ongoing financial performance decline.
The financial distress of a company begins when
they fail to execute their scheduled payment or if
there is a cash-flow prediction that the same
situation will repeat in the future (Brigham and
Ehrhardt, 2005). Two things, namely economic and
financial aspects, can cause this condition. The
economic problem includes things such as the
company's weakness and improper location, whereas
the financial problem is where the company owes
too much debt or insufficient capital. Financial
distress conditions can be seen through the
calculation and ratio analysis of the company's
financial condition, and the stakeholders can use
them to predict the probability of the company's
future bankruptcy.
3 RESEARCH METHOD
This is descriptive research, which, according to
Nazir in Bimawiratma (2016), is a research aim at
making a description, or systematic projection of the
truth, characteristics, and relationship among the
researched objects. This research employs two
methods, namely the Altman and Grover financial
distress methods, and provides a description of
bankruptcy predictive analysis of pharmaceutical
companies registered to Bursa Efek Indonesia
(Indonesia Stock Exchange) within 2014 – 2017.
These two methods are selected due to the emphasis
on a company's profit and sales that match the
condition of pharmaceutical companies after the
implementation of the E-Catalogue. Each calculation
of the analysis is provided in Table 1.