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Determinants of Financial Reporting Quality in the Public Sector: Evidence from Indonesia

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  • Fuad Rakhman

    (Department of Accounting, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

  • Singgih Wijayana

    (Department of Accounting, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Abstract

Most studies addressing the issue of financial reporting quality (FRQ) focus on corporations. This study investigates the determinants of FRQ in the public sector. We use the type of audit opinion as a proxy for reporting quality, with an unqualified opinion representing the best reporting quality while a disclaimer of opinion represents the worst quality. Using manually collected data from 3018 financial reports of local governments in Indonesia from 2008 to 2014, we find that a high proportion of capital expenditures in the total budget is associated with low FRQ. Further, we find that larger and wealthier local governments are associated with higher FRQ. Finally, we find that local governments under more experienced mayors have higher reporting quality. Our results are robust to different measures of FRQ. This study contributes to the reporting quality literature by providing empirical evidence on the determinants of FRQ in the public sector, which has been relatively underexplored. We conclude that certain characteristics of local governments and of mayors are associated with the types of audit opinion and that financial incentives accelerate the improvement of reporting quality.

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  • Fuad Rakhman & Singgih Wijayana, 2019. "Determinants of Financial Reporting Quality in the Public Sector: Evidence from Indonesia," The International Journal of Accounting (TIJA), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 54(03), pages 1-35, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:tijaxx:v:54:y:2019:i:03:n:s1094406019500094
    DOI: 10.1142/S1094406019500094
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