The Role of Women on Boards as A Mechanism to Improve Carbon Emission Disclosure and Firm Value

This study investigates the role of women on boards as a mechanism to improve carbon emission disclosure, as a mediating effect influence on firm value. The population includes 122 nonfinancial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2015 to 2019. The results of path analysis reveal that women on boards have a positive and significant effect on carbon emission disclosure, a positive but insignificant effect on firm value, and that carbon emission disclosure is pivotal in mediating women on boards and firm value. This study provides insights that persuade companies to maintain relationships with stakeholders by implementing environmental awareness and disclosing sustainability reports. Carbon emission disclosure as part of the sustainability report is a form of good corporate action in maintaining the balance of living systems on earth. Keywords: women on boards, carbon emissions disclosure, firm value

Implementation of Good Governance in Komodo National Park Management: A Case Study

This study examines the implementation of good governance at the Komodo National Park to provide a specific, in-depth, complex, and explorative understanding of it. The research methodology used was a descriptive interpretive Yin case study approach. Data were obtained through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results revealed that the Komodo National Park applies the principles of good governance, transparency, accountability, responsibility, independence, and fairness. Study findings also contribute benefits, ideas, and studies, which provide reference for and contribution to the management and stakeholders in conducting governance roles, especially for National Park management. Keywords: good governance, management, national park

Moderation of Financial Constraints in Transfer Pricing Aggressiveness, Income Smoothing, and Managerial Ability to Avoid Taxation

This study examines the effect of transfer pricing aggressiveness, income smoothing, and managerial ability in tax avoidance with financial constraints as a moderating variable. The samples were manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2015 to 2018. The study analyzed a form of panel data with a fixed-effect model approach. The result was transfer pricing aggressiveness and income smoothing had positives effects on tax avoidance. Managerial ability reduces tax avoidance, while financial constraints did not. Furthermore, financial constraints did not moderate the effects of transfer pricing aggressiveness on tax avoidance. Financial constraints strengthened the positive effects of income smoothing and the negative effects of managerial ability on tax avoidance. This study provides input to the tax authorities in formulating policies, as well as input for risk analysis on tax potential. Keywords: transfer pricing aggressiveness, income smoothing, managerial ability, financial constraints, tax avoidance.

Uncovering of Potential Fraud in the Preparation of Village Planning and Budgeting Documents in Madura

This study determines the planning and budgeting of documents in the gray village. Researchers empirically evaluate and demonstrate how the actual practice of village government was conducted. This study uses a qualitative approach to the case study method to analyze the data, which was drawn from unstructured interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings reveal how opportunities for fraud can be due to a lack of understanding of functions, duties, and responsibilities and how they also affect budget preparation. This is due to the pressure in completing planning and budgeting documents that affect uninformed village chairmen and chiefs who are signing documents. Another finding is that there are typically two village secretaries who act as financial coordinators for one village government. Keywords: documents, planning, budgeting, village

The Emancipation of Household Accounting: A [Non] Feminism Critical Study of Tjoet Njak Dien

This study investigates household accounting practices in the families of women migrant workers from a gender perspective and offers a change in the traditional roles of Muslim women. Through a critical approach, Tjoet Njak Dien, a non-feminist theory researcher achieved the study objectives. The results showed that the household accounting practices of migrant workers were masculine. Through the metaphor of Tjoet Njak Dien’s subsequent struggle, three strategies of household accounting practices were revealed. The first concerns earning income with halal and toyib work principles and considering the benefits. Second concerns management to be executed with deliberation and an intermediate attitude. Finally, accounting must be performed via communication and openness between husband and wife. The application could be a means of balancing the household bookkeeping of female migrant workers, which relies on rationality. Keywords: feminism, gender, household accounting

The Effect of Fraud Pentagon and F-Score Model in Detecting Fraudulent Financial Reporting in Indonesia

This study analyzes the effect of fraud pentagon and the efficacy of the F-score model in detecting fraudulent financial reporting in Indonesia. The sample used is the company’s annual report subject to Financial Service Authority (OJK) sanctions and a twofold comparative annual study from companies not subject to sanctions in the same reporting year and industry type. The sample was selected using a purposive sampling method. The data was analyzed using the logistic regression analysis. The test results prove that pressure, opportunity, and rationalization in the fraud pentagon can be used to detect bogus financial reporting. The results reveal that the F-score model is unsuitable for hypothesis testing; consequently, some variables should be eliminated. Therefore, the F-score model has limited usefulness in detecting counterfeit financial reporting in Indonesia. Keywords: F-Score, accounting fraud, fraud detection, fraud pentagon, fraudulent financial reporting

Does Financial Performance Drive Environmental Disclosure and Environmental Cost? Evidence from Indonesia

This study examines whether financial performance affects environmental disclosures and environmental costs. Samples from mining and energy companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2015 to 2019 were analyzed using the content analysis method and ordinary least square regression. This study finds that financial performance bears a positive relationship to environmental costs that indicates whether assets are efficiently used as a basis to engage in spending on environmental activities. There is a negative relationship between financial performance and environmental disclosure and a positive relationship between environmental cost and environmental disclosures. This study implies wider stakeholder understanding of how financial performance affects environmental cost and disclosure. The study implies a role of the cost element in the relationship between financial performance and environmental disclosure.

Revealing The Accountability of Nurul Haromain Islamic Boarding Schools: A Phenomenological Study

The objective of this study is to reveal the sense of accountability at Nurul Haromain Islamic boarding school. Qualitative method and interpretive paradigm were used to understand and explain the accountability practice phenome, and phenomenological approach was used to reveal the sense of accountability based on the experience of individuals, in this case the administrators of the school. This study finds that the sense of accountability is very contextual depending on the space and time as well as individuals who sense it. For the school administrators, accountability is practiced upon the amanah (mandate) that the school should serve as a dakwah institution and the manager of community’s fund in the form of community services and proper financial management. The implication of such accountability is ensured by their faith quality and the enforcement of ethics and morality by human resource seasoned in Islamic boarding school environment. Keywords: accountability, mandate, phenomenology, Islamic boarding school

Does Corporate Governance Practices Effect on Cost of Debt: Cross-Country Comparison of Pakistan and India

This study empirically examines the association between corporate governance practices and the cost of debt in Pakistan and India. By law, both Pakistani and Indian firms are required to publish their annual reports with recommended Corporate Governance Codes. Corporate governance practices were pivotal in the U.S. stock market crash of 1929. In this study, we used data from 2014 to 2017 of published compliance from 100 nonfinancial companies in Pakistan and India. This study discloses the essentiality of better corporate governance to decrease the cost of debt and offers additional empirical evidence through a comparative analysis of the links between corporate governance and the cost of debt in Pakistan and India. Keywords: corporate governance, cost of debt, Pakistan, India

Management of Unexpected Expenditures for Covid-19 in Local Government

This study aims to explore how the Riau Provincial Government manages unexpected expenses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The method in this study is a qualitative method with the type of case study. Data collection techniques used are interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the management of unexpected costs was carried out through the planning stage by reallocating and centralizing the budget. At the administrative and accountability stage, there are problems in recording Unexpected Expenditures, namely the absence of clear technical guidelines regarding the implementation of Unexpected Expenditures, setting spending limits for emergencies. There is no valid data for the distribution of aid funds for MSMEs affected by Covid-19 as well as valid documents for recording third party grant assistance. This research contributes to the government in making policies in financial management in disaster emergencies. Keywords: Covid-19 pandemic, financial management, refocusing, reallocation, administration