Law on State Owned Enterprises (No.19/2003) define one of the purpose of privatization to increase the firm performance and firm value. However, until June 2017, from 119 State Owned Enterprises (BUMN) in Indonesia, only 19 firms have go public. The aim of the research is to examine the effect of state ownership and public ownership towards firm performance proxied based on Return on Equity (ROE) partially and simultaneously. Multiple regression analysis is performed on the data which are collected by using purposive sampling technique for the Indonesia’s State Owned Enterprise (BUMN) listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2012-2015. We find that state ownership has no effect towards ROE. However, public ownership proxied based on percentage of public ownership has significant effect towards ROE. Keywords: BUMN, Public Ownership, ROE, State Ownership

The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of several factors toward quality of local government’s financial statement. The factors consist of governmental accounting standards, utilization of information technology, competencies of human resource, government’s internal control system, and local financial accounting system. The samples of this research were the employees at Satuan Kerja Perangkat Daerah (SKPD) or regional work unit in Tangerang regency with several characteristic. The characteristics are, 1) using SIMDA as a financial accounting system and 2) involved during preparation of financial statements. The data used was primary data. This research used questionnaire for collecting data. The sampling technique is non-probability samping which is convenience sampling. The results of this research are: (1) governmental accounting standards has significant effect toward the quality of local government’s financial statement, (2) utilization of information technology has significant effect toward the quality of local government’s financial statement, (3) competencies of human resource has significant effect toward the quality of local government’s financial statement, (4) government’s internal control system does not affect toward the quality of local government’s financial statement, (5) local financial accounting system does not affect toward the quality of local government’s financial statement.

Objective - The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of good corporate governance (GCG) on Indonesia's SOEs and the influence of state ownership on company performance. Methodology/Technique - This study examines State Owned Enterprises in Indonesia that were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange between 2011 and 2015. Findings - The empirical results show that GCG and state ownership both have a positive influence on the company's financial performance (in this case, Return On Assets). However, the percentage of state ownership has a negative effect on the relationship between Good Corporate Governance and Return On Assets. Novelty - One agency cost is monitoring expenditure by the principal. Privatization is one way to improve the performance of SOEs. Privatization is believed to improve the performance of SOEs, as a result of increased supervision of the performance of SOEs in Indonesia. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: State Owned Enterprises; Good Corporate Governance; State Ownership; Return On Assets; Indonesia. JEL Classification: G32, H70, G34.

Abstract— Profit is one of company’s performance indicator and it will give good signal to investor when it increases. Based on previous studies, there are some financial ratios that have effects toward change in profit such as current ratio, return on asset (ROA), total asset turnover (TATO), and debt to asset ratio (DTA). This research aims to find the effect of current ratio, ROA, TATO and DTA towards change in profit. Manufacturing companies in the consumer goods industry which is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) from 2016-2019 is the object of this research and purposive sampling as a sampling method. There are several criterias for sample selection such as published an audited financial statement for 4 years consecutive in 2016-2019; using Rupiah as a currency report in Financial statement; and has profit for 4 years consecutive in 2016-2019. There are 27 companies that meet all the criterias. The result of this research were (1) current ratio and debt to total asset had no significant effect towards changes in profit, (2) return on asset had a positive significant effect towards changes in profit, (3) total asset turnover had a negative significant effect towards changes in profit. Current ratio has no significant effect due to gain of intangible assets, gain of unrealized foreign exchange and financial income. The reason for debt to total asset is because the increase of liability is in line with the increase of asset, especially fixed assets. When fixed assets expand, total sales have increase along with profit change   Keywords: Changes in Profit; Current Ratio; Debt to Asset Ratio; Return on Asset; Total Asset Turnover

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the implementation of Sistem Informasi Manajemen Daerah (SIMDA) toward financial report quality of local government in Nias Selatan. The Indonesian government has encouraged each region to implement Sistem Informasi Manajemen Daerah (SIMDA). SIMDA is an e-government system developed by the Deputi Pengawasan Bidang Penyelenggaraan Keuangan Daerah in order to improve internal control in regional reporting, including local government financial reports. The study was conducted using a survey method to provide the questionnaries to Kepala Sub Bagian Keuangan, Kepala Sub Bagian Program, and Bendahara in 63 Satuan Kerja Perangkat Daerah (SKPD) Nias Selatan. The data used in this study was primary data. There were 154 questionnaries distributed for this research, but only 140 questionnaries returned and used in this research. Data processing using SPSS 24 application with simple regression method.    The result of this study was implementation of Sistem Informasi Manajemen Daerah (SIMDA) has significant impact toward financial report quality of local government in Nias Selatan.   Keywords        : financial report quality, local government financial statements, SIMDA