Open AccessImpact of Strengthening Internal Audit’s Roles towards State Budget Loss
Author(s) -
Nurul Qomaryati,
Yohanna M.L. Gultom
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jejak (jurnal ekonomi dan kebijakan)/jejak
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2460-5123
pISSN - 1979-715X
DOI - 10.15294/jejak.v14i2.30855
Subject(s) - audit , business , internal audit , accounting , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , budget process , political science , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , politics , law
This research evaluates the effect of strengthening government internal audit’s (APIP) roles on reducing state budget loss in Indonesia. Since 2014, the role of internal audit as a provider of objective quality assurance is strengthened by adding comprehensive consulting activities that are inherent in each cycle of state budget process to make sure that there are no irregularities on managing the stage budget. By using the difference-in-differences (DID) approach, this study analyzes state budget loss data obtained from the Audit Board of Republic of Indonesia (BPK) in 492 cities/districts during 2009-2018. The results show that strengthening internal audit’s roles decreased state budget losses in the regions that have a relatively high capital expenditure by 0.435% and it is significant at 1% level. This finding shows the positive effect of adding a consulting role to government internal audit on reducing the state budget losses in Indonesia.