The Effect of Societal Values on Local Government Transparency: Applying Hofstede’s Cultural Dimmensions

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Frías-Aceituno ◽  
Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza ◽  
María-Isabel González-Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Societal Expectations

In the last decade, a growing number of organizations worldwide have started reporting on issues concerning their economic, social and environmental behaviour. However, public administrations show a delay in this regard although there is growing interest from citizens regarding sustainability transparency. This paper contributes to intra-country analyses of non-financial reporting in the public sector by studying transparency concerning sustainability in municipalities; it analyses the coherence between societal values, identified using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, and local governments’ corporate social responsibility disclosures. We undertook a content analysis of 101 Colombian, Portuguese and Spanish local government websites and employed different graphical and statistical techniques to analyse the extent of disclosure and the relationship with societal expectations of transparency. The results showed several thematic differences between countries in disclosure preferences relating to societal cultural values of collectivism, femininity, tolerance and equity. Countries with equilibrium in all cultural values are more transparent; those with a prevalence of masculine and uncertainty avoidance cultural dimensions are particularly oriented to social perspectives and show a higher preference for strategic and economic information.

scholarly journals Exploring government internet financial reporting in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Pepie Diptyana ◽  
Nur'aini Rokhmania
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Local Dependency ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Almost All

Government financial reporting as public accountability and transparency is important. Previous research show that almost all local government in Indonesia have their official website, which is active use as presenting news, local potentials, and local government services. Unfortunately, there are still limited local governments which are disclose their financial information as well as budgeting reports and financial statements on their websites. This research aims to explore whether political competition, local asset, local dependency, population density, and information openness award have influenced IFR practice in government in Indonesia. We investigate financial report and budget report as of internet financial reporting (IFR) data of 32 provincial government websites. Indonesia consists of 34 provinces, which are 32 provincial websites consistently accessible and use as sample in this research. The empirical results show that local dependency toward central government and Information Openness Award positively significant influence IFR practices in provincial level in Indonesia. There is no significant influenced of political competition, local asset and population density to IFR in Indonesia Provinces website. Our research contribution is to extend previous research by concerning Information Openness Award as independent variable which influenced to IFR practice in local government.

scholarly journals Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhi Publikasi Informasi Keuangan pada Website Resmi Pemerintah Daerah se-Jawa Tengah

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Anggara Yunita
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Financial Report ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Transparency And Accountability

This study aims to find out which factors have strong impact to the financial report publications on local government websites, due to the requirements of Good Government Governance, among others the principle of transparency and accountability. District/city governments in Central Java were selected as samples by consideration of the achievements and awards achieved related to transparency, accountability, and compliance. The variables used in this study were political competition, tenure, BPK audit options, total assets, leverage, and direct expenditure. Using Stata probit regression analysis tool, the results showed that the local governments in Central Java were in the increase of transparency and accountability stage, where this showed the success of the regional autonomy mission. There were upward trend of audit opinions and financial report publications on local government websites. All variables insufficiently affected internet publication of financial report The political map did not become disincentive for local heads in order to increase the transparency of financial reporting

Pengaruh Budaya Terhadap Akuntansi, Auditing Dan Praktik Akuntansi Internasional

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
Priyastiwi Priyastiwi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
National Level ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Financial Disclosure ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this article is to provide the basic model of Hofstede and Grays’ cultural values that relates the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and Gray‘s accounting value. This article reviews some studies that prove the model and develop the research in the future. There are some evidences that link the Hofstede’s cultural values studies with the auditor’s judgment and decisions by developing a framework that categorizes the auditor’s judgments and decisions are most likely influenced by cross-cultural differences. The categories include risk assessment, risk decisions and ethical judgments. Understanding the impact of cultural factors on the practice of accounting and financial disclosure is important to achieve the harmonization of international accounting. Deep understanding about how the local values may affect the accounting practices and their impacts on the financial disclosure are important to ensure the international comparability of financial reporting. Gray’s framework (1988) expects how the culture may affect accounting practices at the national level. One area of the future studies will examine the impact of cultural dimensions to the values of accounting, auditing and decision making. Key word : Motivation, leadership style, job satisfaction, performance

scholarly journals Transparency of local government in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Made Pradana Adiputra ◽  
Sidharta Utama ◽  
Hilda Rossieta
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence about the influence of the size of local government, the quality of local government financial statements, the level of local government response to the disclosure of financial information and the local political environment on the transparency of local government in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach The study sample consisted of 34 regional governments (provinces) in Indonesia in 2016, using purposive sampling and multiple regression analysis. Findings The results showed that the quality of financial reporting through the audit opinion and political environment have a significant positive effect on the transparency of local government in Indonesia. On the other hand, the size of the local government and local government response rate on the regulation do not affect the transparency of local government in Indonesia. Originality/value The agency, legitimacy and institutional theory have an important role in the underlying local government transparency practices in Indonesia. The results of this study should be used as the basis of thought and study to determine the factors that affect the performance of local governments from the financial and non-financial aspects.

Egyptian Local Government Website Portals

2012 ◽  
pp. 577-593
Author(s):  
Hisham M. Abdelsalam ◽  
Christopher G. Reddick ◽  
Hatem A. ElKadi
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
Government Website

This chapter examines the development of e-Government in selected Egyptian local governments. A content analysis of 25 local government website portals was conducted examining categories of e-Management, e-Services, e-Democracy, and e-Decision making. The study first sets out to examine the overall level of maturity of local government websites in these four areas in Egypt. Second, this study examines whether Egyptian human development indicators explain the maturity of local government websites. Firstly, the overall results indicated that e-Government maturity in Egypt was primarily in the information dissemination stage. Secondly, local governments had a greater population in social services industries which indicated a greater level of e-Government maturity. Out of 17 variables tested, there were very few human development indicators related to e-Government website maturity. The results of this chapter showed the maturity of e-Government in local governments in a developing country matched against developed nations. Also, the results showed the limited impact of human development indicators to predict e-Government website maturity.

scholarly journals Financial statements disclosure on Indonesian local government websites

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-128
Author(s):  
Wahyudin Nor ◽  
Muhammad Hudaya ◽  
Rifqi Novriyandana
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Audit Opinion ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Websites

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which audit opinion, audit findings, follow-up audit recommendations, level of education, level of welfare and heads of local governments’ commitment influence the disclosure of financial statements on the official website of local government. Design/methodology/approach The data of this research comprise 68 financial statements during the period 2015–2016 collected from 34 local governments across Indonesia by employing the census method. The data then are analyzed using logistic regression. Findings The results of this study show that audit opinion has a positive significant influence on the disclosure of financial statements on local government websites in Indonesia, while the audit findings, follow-up audit recommendations, level of education, level of welfare and heads of local governments’ commitment have no significant influences on the disclosure of financial statements local governments’ websites across Indonesia. Originality/value The study contributes to the public sector accounting research by enhancing our understanding to the disclosure of financial statements on local government websites.

scholarly journals Interactions of Financial Assistance and Financial Reporting Competency: Evidence From Local Government in Papua and West Papua Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Pilipus Ramandei ◽  
Abdul Rohman ◽  
Dwi Ratmono ◽  
Imam Ghozali
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
West Papua ◽  
The Republic

Good local government financial statements are financial statements according to the qualitative characteristics of financial statements, which are relevant, reliable, comparable and understandable. However, the phenomenon shows that there are still weaknesses in financial reporting in several local governments in Indonesia, especially in the provinces of Papua and West Papua based on the findings of the Audit Board of the Republic of Indonesia (IHPS II BPK, 2017). The purpose of this study is to obtain empirical evidence of the role of moderating financial assistance and apparatus competency on the quality of government financial reports. Explanation of the relationship between variables was using an institutional theory perspective. The survey was conducted in 2018 on 42 Local Governments in Papua and West Papua. Methods of processing and analyzing data were using SEM-PLS with WarpPLS 6.0 statistical software. The results of the apparatus competency research have a positive effect on the quality of financial statements. A financial resistance positively strengthens the influence of apparatus competency on the quality of local government financial reports. Thus, efforts to overcome the presentation of quality financial statements require competent apparatus through the existence of financial assistance policies. Limitations of the study are the method of collecting data using a questionnaire and that it is very possible for the bias to occur. Therefore, efforts to achieve better results need to be accompanied by an interview method in order to obtain additional information as a comparison of respondents' answers; 2) the determination coefficient value of R- square is 0.41 or 41% indicating that there are still 0.59 or 59% variability in the quality of Local Government Financial Statements (LKPD) which can be explained by other variables outside the research model. 

scholarly journals Pengaruh Karakteristik Pemerintah Daerah Terhadap Tingkat Pengungkapan Sukarela Informasi Keuangan Pada Website Pemerintah Daerah (Studi Kasus Pemerintah Daerah Tingkat Provinsi Se – Indonesia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 034
Author(s):  
Yulia Yustikasari
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Section Data ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Government Websites ◽  
Government Website

This study aims to examine the characteristics of local governments affect the Level of Voluntary Disclosure of Financial Information on Local Government Websites. Testing the influence of independent variables to the dependent variable used multiple linear regression equation and using cross section data. The results of testing on hypotheses provide evidence that the independent variable of Local Government does not affect the Voluntary Disclosure Level of Financial Information on Local Government Website, In addition to variable Government Expenditure does not affect the Voluntary Disclosure of Financial Information at Local Government Website, for Debt Financing variables Local Government has significant effect on Voluntary Disclosure Level of Financial Information at Local Government Website, for variable of Local Governmental Size has no effect to Voluntary Disclosure Level of Financial Information on Local Government Website.

scholarly journals Internet Financial Reporting dan Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhinya Pada Pemerintah Kota dan Kabupaten Di Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariefia Nosihana ◽  
Rizal Yaya
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Factors

This research identifies factors affecting the publication of financial reports in the internet or known as internet financial reporting (IFR) after the issuance of Home Minister Instruction No. 188.52/1797/SJ year 2012 on Improving Transparency of Local Budget Management. One hundred and seventy five cities and regencies were selected as samples based on purposive sampling and analysed by using multiple regression. The result shows that political competition and size of local government asset has positive influence on the IFR. This indicates that Heads of local government whose political party is not majority and Heads of local government with greater asset size, had used IFR as media to show their performance to the public. This is consistence with stewardships theory that asymmetric information between local government (stewards) with the public (principals) can be reduced through accountability and transparency of financial management whereby the pressure and ability to do it appeared significantly in local governments with high political competition and with relatively greater asset. In this research, some other potential factors such as leverage, own-source revenue, type of local government (city or regency) and audit opinion are not proven to influence the IFR practices in the local governments.

scholarly journals KUALITAS LAPORAN KEUANGAN PEMERINTAH DAERAH DI INDONESIA : LITERATURE REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-171
Author(s):  
Farah Faadillah Herindraningrum ◽  
Indrawati Yuhertiana
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Accounting System ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Factors Affecting

This literature review aims to map research on the quality of local government financial reports in Indonesia and to see how the role of accountability and transparency factors in the quality of local government reports in Indonesia. This research method uses SLR (Systematic Literature Review). Analysis of data by mapping 28 selected journals from 2015 to 2020 in the Google Scholar database. The results of this research show factors affecting the quality of the Indonesian government's financial reports, namely: human resource competence, Information Technology, Accountability, Transportation, Audit Quality, Accounting System, Accounting Procedure, Accounting Standards, and Internal Management with quantitative research type, Qualitative, literature review, and mix method. The most frequently investigated factor is the competence of human resources as much as 15 times the type of research that is widely used is quantitative research as much as 20. This research also shows that the accountability and transparency of financial reporting have a significant effect on the quality of financial reporting of local governments in Indonesia.

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