Open AccessThe Composition of Independent Board of Commissioner and Number of Board of Commissioner Meeting Towards Fraudulence of Financial Report (Empirical Study at Public Company Listed at Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2011-2017)
Author(s) -
. Sudarman,
Aniqotunnafiah,
Masruri Masruri
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of financial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4031
pISSN - 1923-4023
DOI - 10.5430/ijfr.v10n4p96
Subject(s) - accounting , stock exchange , business , corporate governance , audit committee , descriptive statistics , audit , annual report , composition (language) , population , finance , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , demography , mathematics , sociology
This study aims to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of corporate governance mechanisms on fraudulent financial reporting. The variables of corporate governance used are independent board composition, frequency of board commissioner meetings, and external auditor quality as moderating variables between the influences of independent board composition, number of board of commissioners meetings against fraudulent financial reporting. The population of this study was public companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2011 - 2017. The total samples of this study were 76 companies, consist of 38 companies reported committing fraudulently financial statements and 38 companies that did not cheat financial statements. Data analysis was carried out by descriptive analysis, crosstab and hypothesis testing using the logistic regression method. The results of this study indicate the composition of the independent board of commissioners and the frequency of board of commissioners meetings has a significant and negative effect on the fraudulent financial report. Also, the quality of external auditors can strengthen the influence of the composition of the independent board of commissioners and the number of board of commissioners meetings on the fraudulent financial reporting.