Factors influencing the information quality of local government financial statement and financial accountability

• Main Authors: Nur Fitri Dewi, S. M. Ferdous Azam, Siti Khalidah Mohd Yusoff
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2019-05-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Internal control system; Human resource competence; Information quality of financial statement; Financial accountability
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol9/msl_2019_126.pdf

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of internal control system and human resource competence on information quality of local government financial statement and financial accountability. The method of collecting data is questionnaire which is distributed among 161 out of 303 population of employees of the Agency (Dinas) in the Government of South Sumatra Province, Indonesia. The collected data is processed by using SPSS 20.00 with t-test and Path Analysis. The result shows that internal control system and human resource competence positively influenced on the information quality of local government financial statement. Internal control system and human resource competence also influence positively on financial accountability both directly and indirectly mediated by the information quality of local government financial statement. Moreover, the information quality of local government financial statement directly and positively influence the financial accountability. The re-sults of this study can be beneficial for the government as input and material considerations in determining policies specifically related to improve the quality of information on government financial statements and financial accountability.