The Influence of Auditor Professionalism, Experience and Knowledge on Audit Quality and Religiosity as Moderating Variables

Abstract

Audit quality is very important in carrying out audit activities because good audit quality will produce reliable and honest results without any influence from related parties. Obtaining audit quality in government agencies is often constrained, due to lack of supervision, lack of human resources, professional experience, knowledge, and religiosity of auditors. This study aims to determine the positive influence of professionalism, experience, knowledge, and religiosity of auditors partially on audit quality at the Aceh Besar Inspectorate. This study used quantitative methods. The population in this study was all employees of the Aceh Besar Inspectorate. While the sample of this study was the auditors of the Aceh Besar Yogyakarta Inspectorate which amounted to 47 employees. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. This study used primary data by conducting a survey through the distribution of questionnaires. Respondents in this study amounted to 47 people. The results showed that professionalism of experience had a positive effect on audit quality in Aceh Besar, knowledge and religiosity did not affect audit quality. And professionalism of experience, knowledge and religiosity is not able to moderate the quality of audits. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that professionalism and experience have a positive influence on the quality of audits in Aceh Besar. Therefore, efforts are needed to improve the professionalism and experience of auditors in order to provide quality audit results.