Taxpayer Compliance on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Individual Taxpayer in Surakarta

This study aims to examine the effect of taxation regulations understanding, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, service quality and tax administration system modernization to the tax compliance of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) individuals Taxpayer. This study uses a quantitative method with the respondents are MSME individual taxpayers which were registered at the Small Tax Office (KPP Pratama) in Surakarta. The accidental sampling method are used with a total sample collected are 99 respondents. This study also uses multiple linear regression models as data analysis techniques. The results of this study indicate that tax regulations understanding, tax knowledge, tax sanctions, and service quality affect the tax compliance of MSME individuals Taxpayer. Meanwhile, the modernization of the tax administration system does not influence the compliance of taxpayers on MSME individuals.

Audit Committee Impact on Corporate Profitability in Oman Companies: an Auditing and Management Accounting Perspective

This work investigates the impact of audit committees’ features as predictor variables of corporate profitability with a sample of firms belong to non-financial sector in Muscat Securities Market (MSM). This work analyzed cross sectional data for 60 non-financial firms. It used annual reports for the year of 2019 to analyze the impact of audit committees’ features on corporate profitability. The present work tested its hypotheses and utilized its variables via utilizing the Smart-PLS for data analysis. The findings revealed that a positive association between all the predictors and dependent variables are exist among the whole variables; audit committee, audit Independence, meeting of audit committee, and corporate profitability measured by management accounting’s indicators represented by ROA and ROE. This work is a new in its kind to be applied in Oman context via examining the relation between its predictors of audit committees’ features towards their impact on corporate profitability. The current study presents a theoretical and practical implications as a contribution relevant to practitioners working and academics in areas related to corporate profitability. In that, it furnishes empirical evidence for the policymakers, researchers and other interested parties.

Analysis of Compliance and Audit Opinion, Correlation and Causes of Failure in Detecting Non Compliance: A Study on Local Government

This study aims to analyze the correlation between level of local government compliance with laws/regulations and audit opinions on Local Government Financial Statements (LGFS) and to identify causes of failure in detecting non-compliance, including non-compliance that contains elements of fraud, in LGFS audit. The method used is explanatory sequential mixed methods with a content analysis approach on fifty four LGFS samples and interview the auditors of the Audit Board of Republic of Indonesia (the AB). The results show that there is a correlation between level of compliance of local government and audit opinion on LGFS, but there are risk in detecting non-compliance and risk of errors in audit opinion caused by different concepts in determining fraud, unclear guidelines on compliance testing, different concept of materiality among the AB auditors, failure to update programs audit, potential threats/dangers experienced Bay auditors, and failure to reduce auditors’ negative perception on working protection. The limitation of this study is that participants only involve auditors from three representative offices originating from Java and do not conduct confirmation to the unit responsible for the preparation of audit guidelines and units that deal with legal issues. This research implied that the AB must increase effectiveness of audit quality Assurances to improve audit quality and the AB auditors should be able to apply the principle of due professional care in carrying out LGFS audit so that audit quality is maintained.

Islamic Financial Technology Usage: An Investing Perspectives On Generation Z

Today, in Sharia Finance Sector, there was some a new model of sharia finance based on Financial Technology, it is called Islamic Financial Technology (I-Fintech). In other side, A Generation Z comes up as consumer of I-Fintech in the future. There is a big question like “do Generation Z accept I-Fintech in the future?”. Using Technology Acceptance Model with 3 proxy, it is Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and Attitude Toward Using. The result of this research show that Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use affect on Attitude Toward Using I-Fintech. The conclusion is Generation Z’s perceived on I-Fintech are depend on its usefulness and ease of use. This result implied on the development focus of I-Fintech in the future.

Company Size, Profitability, Tax, and Good Corporate Governance On The Company’s Decision To Transfer Pricing (Empirical Study on Manufacturing Companies Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2015-2018 Period)

The research is aimed to analyze the effect of company size, profitability, tax, and good corporate governance on the company’s decision to transfer pricing. The dependent variable in this study is transfer pricing which is proxied by the value of the related party transaction sale. The independent variables in this study are company size, profitability, tax, and KAP quality. This research used secondary data on financial reports or annual reports on manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2015-2018 period. Determination of the sample employed purposive sampling method. The sample in this study were 22 companies with 88 data. The results in this study found that (1) company size had a positive effect on transfer pricing, (2) profitability had no effect on transfer pricing, (3) tax had no effect on transfer pricing, and (4) KAP quality had no effect on transfer pricing.

Profitability, Leverage, Firm Size, Liquidity, and Total Assets Turnover on Liquidity, and Total Assets Turnover on Real Earnings Management (An Empirical Real Earnings Management (An Empirical Study on the Mining Company Classification Study on the Minin

The aim of this research is to analyze the effect of profitability, leverage, firm size, liquidity, and total assets turnover on real earnings management. The population of this research is the classification of mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2014-2017. The sampling method used a purposive sampling method and obtained as many as 80 companies. The data analysis method used multiple linear regression method. The results showed that the total asset turnover affected real earnings management. While profitability, leverage, firm size, and liquidity did not affect real earnings management.

Do Political Factors Affect Financial Performance in Public Sector?

Purpose: The implementation of regional autonomy in Indonesia has been regulated based on Laws of the Republic of Indonesia No 23 of the year 2014 concerning the responsibility given by the central government of the regional government to govern its own region. This is defined as regional autonomy. The government has appointed the members of Regional Legislative Councils (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah - DPRD) to perform monitoring function on the regional government. There are several political factors which affect this monitoring function, one of which is due to the members of Regional Legislative Council originating from various parties. There is one component which makes up financial performance, which is the Locally-Generated Revenue (Pendapatan Asli Daerah - PAD). High locally-generated revenue gives us a clear description on a region’s success in improving its regional income and therefore being independent from the central government. In the year 2015, the compositition of the party supporting the regent/mayor was equal. Whereas in the year of 2016, the composition has changed, due to regional elections taking place on some cities or districts in Indonesia.

Client Internal Factors to The Change of Upgrade, Downgrade, and Same Grade of Public Accounting Firm (An Empirical Study on The Banking Sector Companies Listed in The Indonesia Stock Exchange for The Year of 2014-2018)

This study aimed at determining the effect of client internal factors, such as; firm size, financial distress and management changes to switching of a public accounting firm (PAF). The population of this study was the company of the banking sector listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2018. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling method which generated a sample of 195 companies. The multinomial logistic regression test was performed because there were three categories of the dependent variable. The results of the analysis revealed that financial distress did not affect the change of PAF upgrade, downgrade, and the same grade. Firm size did not affect the change of PAF upgrade, downgrade and the same grade and management changes did not affect the change of PAF upgrade, downgrade, and the same grade.