Large companies may experience financial distress because of their inability to compete. Therefore, investors should be more vigilant in investing their funds. Some ways that can be done is through cash flow analysis, analysis of corporate strategy, and analysis of financial statements. This study aims to determine the effect of liquidity, leverage, sales growth, and good corporate governance on financial distress. The study used 55 samples of telecommunication and non-construction companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange period 2013-2017. The technique sampling in this study is the purposive sampling method. The data analysis method is PLS (Partial Least Square). The results of this study indicate that liquidity, leverage, sales growth, and good corporate governance do not affect financial distress. These unexpected results may due to the limitation of this study. Therefore, for future research in financial distress, it is suggested to take into account the sample size and other variables that expected to affect financial distress.

This study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance characteristics such as board size, independence of the board of commissioners, the size of the audit committee, audit committee independence, audit committee competence, and concentration of stock ownership on audit report lag. In addition, this study also tests three control variables such as firm size, type of auditor, and profitability. One hundred and fiftysix sample of banking companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange during the 6 years of the study were obtained by using purposive sampling technique. The results of multiple regression analysis proved that only board size variable that affects the audit report lag, while the other three control variables has no significant effect on audit report lag. This result suggested that auditors perform the audit more efficiently and effectively, for BAPEPAM-LK and Bank Indonesia as regulator to review again the regulation about corporate governance, for the future researcher to be reference in developing research.

This study aims to analyze the influence of motor vehicle taxpayers' trust in government authority and tax sanctions on motor vehicle taxpayer compliance. This research is experimental research with 76 accounting student participants who are taking a Taxation course. The analysis method uses ANOVA analysis. The results of the study prove that the trustworthiness of taxpayers with government authorities influences the compliance of taxpayers in carrying out their tax obligations. Conversely, tax sanctions do not affect taxpayer compliance. This result proves that taxpayers will be more compliant with their tax obligations if the government performs its functions as a state apparatus properly. The government with competent authority means that there is clear accountability about the use of tax returns; it can encourage the level of tax compliance.

JEL Classification: M41 M21 A B S T R A C TThis study aims to empirically prove the effect of the audit opinion, change in management, public accountant firm's size, the percentage change in ROA, financial distress and the growth of corporate on auditor switching. The samples in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in 2006-2011. There were 492 companies collected for observations in which they were taken by the method of purposive sampling. An analytical technique employed is logistic regression analysis. During the six years of research, descriptive statistics indicate that only 55 or 11.25% of the observed companies have changed their auditor, and the rest 437 companies or 88.75% did not perform auditor switching. It was found that only public accountant office size that affects the auditor switching among six variables studied.

The objective of this study is to examine the influence of intellectual capital on compa-ny value with financial performance as an intervening variable in financing institu-tions listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) 2010 - 2014. This research uses Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAICTM) model that consists of three compo-nents: Value Added Capital Employed (VACA), Value Added Human Capital (VA-HU), and Value Added Structural Capital (STVA). Company value is measured using Tobin’s Q, financial performance is measured using Return on Asset (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE), and Earning per Share (EPS). The data consisted of 67 samples. Sampling is conducted using census method. Data analysis technique used in this study is Partial Least Square (PLS). The results show that: (1) intellectual capital has an influence on company value (2) financial performance mediates the relationship between intellectual capital and company value. The important thing in this study is that intellectual capital can be used for adding the firm value.