Open AccessEffect of Audit Quality on Earnings Quality: Evidence From Indonesia Stock Exchange
Author(s) -
Sumiadji,
Grahita Chandrarin,
Edi Subiyantoro
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4031
pISSN - 1923-4023
DOI - 10.5430/ijfr.v10n1p86
Subject(s) - quality audit , earnings quality , accounting , business , audit , accrual , stock exchange , predictability , audit evidence , earnings , joint audit , internal audit , finance , statistics , mathematics
This research was conducted to test the effect of audit quality on earnings quality. Its observed data consisted of 116 annual data of manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange within 2011-2014. The proxies of audit quality are auditor size, audit tenure and audit specialization. The earnings quality was formed from the attributes of accrual quality, persistence, predictability, and income smoothing. The analysis techniques for this research involved (1) an confirmatory factor analysis to form the earnings quality and (2) multiple regression analysis to test the effect of the auditor size, audit tenure and audit specialization on earnings quality. Analysis results showed that earnings quality is formed by the attributes of persistence and predictability. Research results showed that auditor size and audit tenure have effect on earning quality, while audit specialization do not.