Audit Committee, Board, and Audit Report Lag

Effect of corporate governance being the crucial issue in growing process of audit financial statement in order to decrease audit report lag. Some of previous studies stated that correlation between corporate governance and audit report lag is not consistence. That is why, this study used variable control as firm and auditor characteristics in order to find out the effect of audit committee and board characteristics to audit report lag. The variable independent consist of audit committee size, audit committee independent, board size, board independent, and board meeting, meanwhile the variable control consists of firm size, loss, and quality auditor. Sample of this study is 55 firms in BEI around 2017 2018 periods. The annual financial statement data gotten from BEI official, and analyzed by using multiple regression model. The result showed that only board size has significant effect to audit report lag, while audit committee size, audit committee independent, board independent, and board meeting variables have do not have significant effect to audit report lag.

Internalisasi Goal Congruance untuk Pendeteksian Financial Statement Fraud Berbasis Behaviour Audit (Studi Kasus KAP Benny dan Rekan)

This research aims to reveal goal congruence for the financial statement fraud- based behavioral audit. financial statement fraud. The agency relationship theory is a contract between the auditor (agent) and the principal (principal). Agency relationships arise when one or more principals employ another person (agent) to provide a service and then delegate authority to decision making to the agent. This study was conducted at KAP Benny and colleagues using qualitative research using phenomenology approach using secondary data and primary data analyzed using interview and interview method using tools in the form of recorder and manuscript aid and tested its validity. The result of this research is shown by case from from 2015 to 2017. In 2015 there was 86.3% of cases, in 2016 there was 86.7% and down in 2017 by 3.68%. Auditors' perception of goal congruence can help in achieving the goal of information that is not synchronized with other information. For that in building a good goal congruence then we need to build the ethics of an auditor.