The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence earnings management in Indonesia. Those factors are profitability, leverage, firm size, audit committee, independent commissioner proportion, institutional ownership, managerial ownership and free cash flow. The population are non financial companies listed in Indonesia stock exchange. This study used 283 samples and samples selection procedure used purposive sampling. This research uses multiple regression analysis method. The result of this study shows that profitability and free cash flow have influence to earnings management. While, leverage, firm size, audit committee, independent commissioner proportion, institutional ownership and managerial ownership do not have influence to earnings management.

The objective of research was to give empirial evidence the influence of audit committee and directors on real earnings management (REM). The samples of this research consist of 336 data from 84 public manufacturing companies from 2013 until 2016 and selected by purposive sampling method. The result showed that the audit committee expertise and independence directors have significantly and postive influence on REM. The board of directors have significantly and negative influence on REM. The influence of audit committee tenure, size, meeting on REM is not significantly. The results of this reasearch shows that outsider of the firm like audit committee and independence directors can’t detect REM. The chance for management doing REM. While, board of directors as insider of the firm can detect and reduce REM.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that affect qualified opinion. This study use earnings management, audit quality, audit tenure, firm size, leverage, liquidity, inventories, and losses to predict qualified opinion. The qualified opinion was measured using dummy variables, value 0 for unqualified opinion, 1 other unqualified opinion (Blandón & Bosch, 2013). If the auditor provides an unqualified opinion then the audit opinion is clear. Conversely, if the auditor provides qualified opinion such as going concern, litigation, asset realizing then the audit opinion is unclear (Dopuch et al., 1987). The study uses purposive sampling from financial statement of manufacturing company in Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2011-2015. This study uses binary logistic regression to test the hypothesis. The result of the research showed that earnings management, audit quality, and tenure can increase the probability of the unqualified opinion. Firm size and losses can increase the probability of the qualified opinion. Meanwhile, leverage, liquidity, and inventories didn’t have statistically significant to predict qualified opinion. Companies that make earnings management, auditors rarely provide a qualified opinion. This is due to the behavior of auditors who are less independent in auditing the financial statements. It is proven that the auditor is likely to give an unqualified opinion to a company that has long been a client. British Telcom conducts Accounting Fraud by making an unfair increase in corporate earnings. For 33 years British Telcom obtained an unqualified opinion from the Public Accounting Firm Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC). This suggests that the higher the earnings management, audit quality and tenure the higher the likelihood of obtaining an unqualified opinion.

Objective - This paper aims to obtain empirical evidence about the influence of specialized auditors, audit tenure, audit committee, board independence, ownership concentration, and auditor quality on audit report lag in Indonesian manufacturing firms. Methodology/Technique – The population is all manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2010 and 2016. Multiple linear regressions was used as the data analysis method. Finding - The results of this research show that specialized auditors, board independence, ownership concentration and auditor quality all have an influence on audit report lag. Meanwhile, audit tenure and audit committee do not have an influence on audit report lag. Novelty - Specialized auditors will provide better performance than non-specialized auditors. Specialized auditors will apply more appropriate planning and monitoring on the audit procedure. Specialized auditors need longer time to audit financial statements, which effects audit report lag. The presence of an independent board requires higher quality financial statements. Thus, the auditor needs to put more effort into the verification process of financial statements. The largest shareholders tend to be committed and responsible to the company’s reputation. Managers will demand the audit report lag in a timely manner, in order to maintain the trust and satisfaction of the company’s largest shareholders. Type of Paper: Empirical. Keywords: Audit Report Lag; Specialized Auditor; Board Independence; Ownership Concentration; Auditor Quality. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Pradipta, A; Zalukhu, A.G. 2020. Audit Report Lag: Specialized Auditor and Corporate Governance, Global J. Bus. Soc. Sci. Review 8(1): 41 – 48. https://doi.org/10.35609/gjbssr.2020.8.1(5) JEL Classification: G30, M42.

The purpose of the research is to provide empirical evidence about the effect of board of commissioner, board independence and audit quality on relationship between free cash flow and earnings management. This research used 290 data from manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, selected using purposive sampling method, during 2012 until 2014. Earnings management calculated using Modified Jones (1991) Model include ROA from Kothari et al. (2005). Data for the research were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The results of the research showed that the effect of board of commissioner, board independence and audit quality on relationship between free cash flow and earnings management is negative and significant. Board of commissioners, board independence and audit quality can reduce earnings management problems arising from free cash flow. Board of commissioners, board independence and audit quality oversee the opportunistic behavior of managers that arises from free cash flow problem.