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This study aims to examine the effects of corporate governance on cash holding with the quality of financial statements as a mediator. Independent variables used in this study are managerial ownership, institutional ownership, board size, and an independent board of commissioners. The sample used in this research is 100 nonfinance companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in the period 2014-2016 which is selected by using purposive sampling method. The data were tested using moderated regression analysis (MRA) with SPSS version 20. The results of the test in this study indicate that the quality of financial statements moderate the relationship between the ownership of the institution and the cash holding and the quality of the financial statements moderate the relationship between the independent commissioner and the cash holding, finance does not moderate the relationship between managerial ownership and cash holding and the quality of financial statements moderate the relationship between board size and cash holding.

Government financial reporting as public accountability and transparency is important. Previous research show that almost all local government in Indonesia have their official website, which is active use as presenting news, local potentials, and local government services. Unfortunately, there are still limited local governments which are disclose their financial information as well as budgeting reports and financial statements on their websites. This research aims to explore whether political competition, local asset, local dependency, population density, and information openness award have influenced IFR practice in government in Indonesia. We investigate financial report and budget report as of internet financial reporting (IFR) data of 32 provincial government websites. Indonesia consists of 34 provinces, which are 32 provincial websites consistently accessible and use as sample in this research. The empirical results show that local dependency toward central government and Information Openness Award positively significant influence IFR practices in provincial level in Indonesia. There is no significant influenced of political competition, local asset and population density to IFR in Indonesia Provinces website. Our research contribution is to extend previous research by concerning Information Openness Award as independent variable which influenced to IFR practice in local government.

The users of financial reports usually use the information of current earnings to predict future earning so that quality earnings are earnings that can reflect the continuity of earning in the future.. This study takes company samples of manufacturing companies, both of which listed in Indonesia’s stock exchange as well as Malaysia’s in the yeas 2014 – 2017 by using regression and intervening analysis. The results of this study are  operating cash flow cannot affect the earnings’ persistence in Indonesia but it affect in Malaysia,  book tax differences and debt level  can affect an earning persistence in Indonesia & Malaysia,   earnings persistence could affect stock prices in Indonesia & Malaysia and Operating cash flow cannot affect stock prices with Earning Persistence as intervening variable for manufacturing companies in Indonesia & Malaysia. Research Limitations/implications: Adj R square value is very low and cannot be compared between Indonesia and Malaysia. Practical Implication: the result would be beneficial for researchers who eager to analyse the similar variable against different countries.

Purpose: This research aims to examine financial literacy, digital literacy and financing preferences influences toward micro and small enterprises (MSEs) performance Design/methodology/approach: This research used quantitative method and SmartPLS were employed to test the hypotheses Findings: financial literacy and digital literacy has significant positive influence to MSEs performance. External financing has negatively significant influence toward performance. Financial literacy is positively significant to internal financing. Research limitations/implications: Due to limitations of response rate, this research model for external financing preferences results limited adjusted r-square. We suggest that next research can expand the samples, and variables. Practical implications: This research implies that MSEs need literacy supports to get reliable information about market access, analyzing financial performance and budget, government policies which affect their financial condition, from universities and governments as policy-maker.  Originality/value: There were limited studies which examining MSEs performance for surviving in crisis period. This research provides data about financial literacy, digital literacy and financing preferences to enhance MSEs performance. Paper type: Research paper