Daftar Isi:
  • The rapid growth of technology and globalization led the company to innovate in order to compete with others. The company also must notice the risks that arise from these conditions in order to get the maximum benefit such as the risk of exchange rate movements of foreign currency so that the company engaged in export and import activities should consider using hedges that do not suffer losses from foreign exchange foreign currency. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether there are differences in operational characteristics of enterprise users and non-users of derivatives on the non financial institutions. The operational characteristics that financial distress, return on assets, and the size of the company. The sample used that all company reports non financial institutions in 2015 officially recorded in the Indonesia Stock Exchange with purposive sampling method. This research used the Mann Whitney U - Test. The study found that there was no difference in an average financial distress and a return on assets of companies users and non-users. Variables other studies showed no difference in the results of an average leverage and the size of the enterprise users and non-users of derivatives.