The purpose of this research is to examine the bonus schemes on accounting decisions in positive accounting theory perspective on fixed target hypotheses and in ratchet-principle literature perspective from ratchet target hypotheses. Samples of the study are companies that show the disclosure of salary and bonus managers, listed in SWA magazine. Samples of this research are 588 companies who published financial statements from 2002 to 2008. To test the hypotheses, this research use independent sample t-test and paired sample t-test. The result shows that budget-based compensation can create incentives for manager to select accounting procedures and accruals to maximize the value of their bonus awards. This result support the theory of ratchet-principles literature, that the budget-based compensation arrangements can yield incentives for managers to achieve their target but not to surpass, the established performance standard.