The Quality of State-Property Reporting: Determinants and Intervening Role of Optimization Management in Indonesia Regional Case

This study examines the effect of legal audit, internal control system, IT utilization, and internal auditors' role as determinants of the quality of state-property reporting intervened by management optimization. The population is the Tegal Regional employee, who manages state-property, including users, regulators, and keepers in 36 regional offices. This case reflects the management and reporting of state-property in the Indonesia regional. Seventy-six respondents were sampled to answer the research instrument and analyzed it by path analysis. The results show that the internal control system, IT utilization, and state property management optimization positively affect state-property reporting quality. The use of internal control systems and IT utilization positively influence the optimization of state-property management. The results also prove that management optimization mediates the internal control system and IT utilization on state-property reporting quality. Contrary evidence that management optimization does not mediate the impact of legal audits and internal auditors' role on the state property report's quality.

Panel Method in Hedging: Evidence from The Indonesian Agricultural Sector

Hedging is a derivative instrument in the form of actions used to minimize risks due to fluctuations in foreign currencies, interest rates, and commodity prices. This study aims to analyze the factors that influence hedging in agricultural sector companies using the panel data method in the form of quarterly from 7 companies from 2013 to 2019. The study results show growth opportunity, financial distress, debt, leverage, firm size, liquidity, profitability, and dividend payout ratio significantly influence the use of hedging. This study's results indicate that agricultural sector companies as a whole use hedging to protect against future risk exposures. Besides, it is necessary to know the factors that influence making decisions using hedging. This study recommends that companies increase export productivity balanced with appropriate hedging policies to improve company performance.

Factors Affecting Accounting Students In Choosing Accounting Career Path

This study aims to empirically examine factors that influence accounting students in choosing their career path. The samples were 181 students from six biggest universities in Semarang, Indonesia. In this study, data were collected using questionnaire survey and analyzed using multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicate that intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, career exposure, and social values influence the career paths accounting student. While third parties positively influence accounting students in determining career path but it is not statistically significant. These findings may help us to understand how to improve career path among accounting students

Social Accounting and Tax Accountability: An Interpretive Study of the Majapahit Empire

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence that accounting practices and tax accountability have been implemented in the ancient kingdom. This paper uses a qualitative approach and an interpretive study as a method. Data were collected through interviews with informants who are experienced in the history of the ancient kingdom, observations on the Majapahit kingdom site, and librarian research. The results prove that tax accountability during the Majapahit kingdom has been implemented and is under the king's policies. Besides that, social accounting practices during the Majapahit Empire had grown and developed as a result of economic and trade activities that experienced rapid growth. Besides that, the absolute king's power in regulating his people in all fields.

Analysis of the Effect of Earnings Management on Audit Service Fees in Five ASEAN-5 Countries

This research aims to provide empirical evidence about the effect of earnings management on the audit fee spent by listed firms in ASEAN-5. This research was conducted using regression analysis with sample of 5.396 firm year listed in ASEAN countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand from 2010-2014. The result of this study indicates that earnings management will increase audit fee. It is due to earnings management increase inherent risk faced by auditor.

The Effects of Financial and Environmental Performances on Firm Value with Environmental Disclosure as an Intervening Variable

This study aims to analyze the effects of financial performance and environmental performance to firm value with environmental disclosure as an intervening variable. Financial performance which measured by Ratio On Sales (ROS) and environmental performance which measured by PROPER ranking act as independent variables and firm value which measured by stock price acts as dependent variable also environmental disclosure which measured by GRI Standards as an intervening variable. This study uses secondary data and selects the sample used purposive sampling method. The samples consist of non financial companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), participated in the PROPER (Program Penilaian Peringkat Kinerja Perusahaan / Performance Rating Assestment Program on Environment Management) and published both annual report and sustainability report for 2017-2018. Partial Least Squares technique is chosen for the study statistic analysis. Results from this research show that financial performance has a negative impact on environmental disclosure, environmental performance has a significant positive impact on environmental disclosure and environmental disclosure does not affect the firm value. Next, the environmental disclosure is not able to intervene the effects of financial performance and environmental performance on firm value. The implications of this research are prove that the environmental aspects of information disclosed by the company have not been an important assessment for investors in viewing the performance of a company and also suggest investors to consider the company's environmental disclosure in making investment decisions because it contain an important aspect of corporate sustainability.

The Determinants of Environmental Disclosure in Companies in Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that influence environmental disclosure. The study population is 156 companies consisted of companies in the agricultural sector, the consumer goods industry sector, and the basic & chemical industry sector which were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and participated in PROPER 2014-2018. The purposive sampling method was used to determine the research sample in order to obtain 26 company samples or 130 units of analysis. The analysis technique in this study uses multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that the level of environmental disclosure in the three corporate sectors in Indonesia is classified as low, due to the absence of standard guidelines for conducting environmental disclosure, so it is still voluntary. The results also show that the variables of board commissioners’ size, size of the audit committee, environmental certification, profitability, and company size have a significant positive effect on environmental disclosure, while leverage has no effect on environmental disclosure. With the low level of corporate environmental disclosure in Indonesia, it is hoped that the government can establish standard, precise, and mandatory guidelines so that companies can further increase information regarding environmental disclosure.

Firm's Value Exploration: The Impact Of Intellectual Capital and Net Working Capital

Intellectual capital (IC) gains more importance nowadays, and hence, this study investigates the impact of IC and net working capital (NWC) on firms’ values creation. If IC has a greater impact than NWC, it indicates that automotive and components companies in Indonesia have paid attention to IC's contribution to increase company value. This study was conducted on 15 automotive and components companies from 2011 to 2018 as this industry utilises more IC and NWC than any other industries. We used panel data regression analysis with random effect model to test the hypothesis of 92 data, with IC calculated through the MVAIC model, and firm’s value is measured by Tobin’s Q. The results show that IC has no significant effect on firms’ value. Meanwhile, NWC has a significant negative effect on firms’ values creation. These important findings suggest that automotive and components firms should apply strategic management in managing IC and NWC to increase the firm’s value.

The Effect of Religiosity and Ethical Orientation on Perceptions of Undergraduate Accounting Students on Creative Accounting

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of religiosity and ethical orientation on the perception of creative accounting. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling technique. Students who participated as respondents were as many as 107 students from Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta and 249 students from Universitas Islam Indonesia who were then grouped based on criteria. The criteria used are already or are currently taking intermediate financial accounting 1 and intermediate financial accounting 2 courses, auditing courses, and business ethics courses. Based on the predetermined criteria, a sample of 202 students was obtained consisting of 98 Universitas Negeri Yogayakarta students and 104 Universitas Islam Indonesia students. The students involved in this study were given a questionnaire to fill in and the data obtained were analyzed using multiple regression methods. The results of this study indicate that there is an effect of religiosity on students’ ethical perceptions in creative accounting. The students with high religiosity will have perceptions that are more ethical on creative accounting. The results of the analysis also show that ethical orientation has an effect on creative accounting. This means that the higher the ethical orientation of students, the more ethical their perceptions of creative accounting are.

Influence Of Intellectual Capital, Income Diversification on Firm Value Of Companies With Profitability Mediation: Indonesian Banking

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of intellectual capital and income diversification on firm value mediated by profitability. This study uses secondary data from annual reports on banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2013-2018. There are 30 banking samples in this study based on established criteria (purposive sampling). Data analysis using the WarpPLS 6.0 program. The results showed that intellectual capital had a positive effect on profitability and on firm value, income diversification had a negative effect on profitability, while it was found to have no effect on firm value, profitability had a positive effect on firm value, intellectual capital had an indirect effect on firm value mediated by profitabilit with partial mediation, while mediation is not supported by the indirect effect of Income Diversification on Firm Value.