Purpose: The purpose of this paper will focus on monitoring and improving corporate governance through earnings quality. In particular, audit committee effectiveness is seen as a significant factor in ensuring effective corporate governance and in view of this, the aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework that will examine the impact expertise, meeting and meeting attendance on the earnings quality of companies. Methodology: Future empirical studies could be conducted quantitatively with secondary data. The report from annual reports of companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) starting from the period of implementation of the new code on implementation guideline in 2013. Implication: In fact, the main issue was centered on financial reporting manipulations and there is need to examine and develop a mechanism that in addition, agency theory is expected to explain the above three factors in providing explanation to accounting information that relates to the earnings quality under study. Finally, it is expected that future empirical studies with this conceptual framework can enhance earnings quality for users of financial statements such as: investors, creditors, shareholders and other stakeholders in Indonesia and beyond.

This study has examined the characteristics of the audit committee (size, independence, and expertise) in addition to financial Condition (leverage and firm size) in increasing firm performance. The random effect with panel data regression was applied on 309 firm-year observations of the manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX) for the period of 2016 - 2018. Return on Assets was used as the measurement of firm performance. This study’s results show a significant and positive relationship between firm size with performance and a significant negative relationship between leverage and firm performance. However, the findings show no significant relationship between the characteristics of the audit committee and firm performance. The results of this study have implications for investors, regulators, and market participants. Policy makers might use these findings, especially regarding the characteristics of the audit committee and financial conditions, for improving the performance of the companies in Indonesia

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the influence of the audit committee's independence and expertise on real earnings management by using audit quality as the moderating variable and firm size, leverage, and profitability as control variables. Research Methodology: Real earnings management was processed by Roychowdhury’s model and it used the abnormal value of operating cash flow, discretionary expenses, and production costs. This study used secondary data from annual reports of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2017-2019 and the total was 516 companies. This study used panel data regression and was processed by Stata. Results: This study proves that audit committee independence and leverage have a significant negative effect on real earnings management through discretionary expenses and audit quality cannot moderate the relationship between audit committee independence and audit committee expertise on real earnings management. Limitation: The study used audit quality as moderating variable. However, the results cannot prove that audit quality is able to affect real earnings management. Contribution: The results obtained can be used for investors' and creditors' consideration when making investment or loans decisions and can be references for further research.

Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian kuantitatif yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh konsentrasi kepemilikan dan kepemilikan institusional terhadap pengungkapan sustainability report. Pengungkapan sustainability report diukur dengan GRI G4 dan GRI Standards. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 39 perusahaan non keuangan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI) periode 2017-2019. Regresi data panel digunakan untuk teknik analisis data dan hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa konsentrasi kepemilikan berpengaruh signifikan dan positif terhadap pengungkapan sustainability report dan hasil lain dari penelitian ini semakin tingginya kepemilikan intitusional maka pengungkapan sustainability report perusahaan akan semakin rendah . Dengan hasil penelitian ini diharapkan otoritas jasa keuangan (OJK) dapat mempertimbangkan kebijakan tentang persentase kepemilikan intitusional terutama untuk perusahaan yang listed di BEI dikarenakan ditemukan hasil dari penelitian ini bahwa perusahaan yang memiliki kepemilikan institusional yang tinggi akan melakukan penurunan pengungkapan Sustainability Report.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of KAP rotation, auditor tenure and audit quality on earnings management. This study also uses leverage, profitability and firm size as control variables. In this study to measure earnings management variables using the Modified Jones Model. the population in this study are manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for the period 2016-2018. The number of samples processed was 366 samples. The analytical method used is panel data linear regression analysis with Stata version 13. The results of this test show that KAP rotation and audit quality has no effect on earnings management while auditor tenure has effect on earnings management. Keywords : KAP rotation, auditor tenure, audit quality, and earnings management.

This study is performed to examine the effect of Auditor’s Opinion, Solvency Size CPA Firm and profitability toward the probability to Audit Report Lag in Consumer Goods Industry in Indonesian Stock Exchange over period 2010-2012. The population of this research is 35 Consumer Goods Industry companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange over period 2010-2012. The data is obtained based on corporate finance reporting that at publication. It is gained sample amount of 28  ompanies from 35 companies those are classified in Consumer Goods Industry in Indonesian Stock Exchange. The analysis technique used here is multiple linear regression and hypothesis test using t-statistic and F-statistic with level of significance 5%. This research results that  uditor’s Opinion , Size CPA Firm, Solvency and Gain-Loss are not  ignificant effect to Audit Report Lag. We suggest for investors in  ndonesian Stock Exchange that paying attention others factor that  egards Audit Report Lag because with those information theycan make the best decision for their investment..

Penelitian ini merupakan jenis penelitian kuantitatif dengan memakai data sekunder serta bertujuan untuk mengetahui kinerja perusahaan sektor keuangan dengan tiga indikator kinerja keuangan  yaitu  BOPO, ROE dan ROA. Sampel dalam penelitian ini terdiri dari 45 perusahaan sektor keuangan baik subsektor perbankan dan subsektor non-perbankan yang terdaftar di Bursa Indonesia dengan periode 2016 -2018. Hasil analisis data dalam penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kinerja perusahaan keuangan subsektor nonperbankan lebih baik dari kinerja perusahaan subsektor perbankan dengan indikator ROE dan ROA.  Dan hasil lain dari penelitian ini menunjukkan perusahaan nonperbankan mengalami tingkat efisiensi lebih rendah dibandingkan subsektor perbankan yang diukur dengan BOPO

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji bagaimana pengaruh dari karakteristik komite audit terhadap penghindaran pajak pada perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia selama periode tahun 2016 hingga tahun 2018. Pada penelitian ini, pengukuran karakteristik komite audit akan menggunakan komponen karakteristik anggota komite audit menurut size, expertise, dan tenure. Untuk variabel kontrol yang digunakan adalah leverage, size, net operating loss, dan variabel moderasi yang diujikan adalah kualitas audit eksternal. Penentuan sampel menggunakan metode purposive sampling, sehingga sampel penelitian perusahaan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia selama periode tahun 2016 hingga tahun 2018 adalah sejumlah 151 perusahaan. Pada penelitian ini, diperoleh sampel sejumlah 113 perusahaan, dengan total pengamatan sejumlah 339 yang sesuai dengan kriteria variabel penelitian. Teknik analisis dibantu dengan program STATA, dan analisis yang digunakan adalah regresi linier berganda dengan tingkat signifikansi sebesar 10%. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa, terdapat pengaruh positif karakteristik komite audit terhadap penghindaran pajak.