The Effect of Creative Accounting Practices with Statutory Auditor as Mediation, and Accountant Ethics Standards on the Reliability of Financial Statements
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.162How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Creative Accounting Techniques, Role of Statutory Auditor, Ethical Standards, Reliability of Financial Statement
- Abstract
Some big companies in the world and Indonesia have scandal because of the lack of reliability of Financial Statement. The purpose of the study was to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of the creative accounting technique, the role of the statutory auditor and accountant ethical standards toward the reliability of financial statements in companies in Jakarta from external auditor view. The study was using the quantitative method and conducted with purposive sampling and data obtain a total sample of 78 respondents of the external auditor who works at an accounting firm in Jakarta. Data tested by using SmartPLS 3.0. The result of this study indicate that creative accounting techniques have no significant influence directly but have significant through a mediating variable toward the reliability of financial statements, meanwhile, the role of the statutory auditor and ethical standards have a positive significant influence on the reliability of financial reporting. According to this study, an institution which is generating accounting standard should consider reducing of creative accounting practices, and for auditors give disclosure of audit report with appropriate with professional skepticism and independent principle.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hendro Lukman AU - Thalia Irisha PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/12 TI - The Effect of Creative Accounting Practices with Statutory Auditor as Mediation, and Accountant Ethics Standards on the Reliability of Financial Statements BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1023 EP - 1029 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.162 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.162 ID - Lukman2020 ER -