This study aimed to investigate budgetary slack behavior due to obedience pressure to authority in governmental organization. This study also evaluates the role of religiosity in determining budgetary slack creation in such situation. The results of experiment with 64 undergraduate students as participants indicate that majority of participants obeyed the order of their immediate superior to create budgetary slack in violation of organization policy. This study also found that participants’ level of religiosity do have impact on their actual behavior to create budgetary slack. Participants with high level of religiosity are documented to create smaller amount of budgetary slack than those who have low level ofreligiosity when faced with obedience pressure from their superior.
ABSTRAKKorupsi dimulai dari suatu tindakan kecil yang akan berakibat besar. Besar kecilnya suatu tindakan korupsi akan berefek dapat meruntuhkan sebuah negara yang besar. Maka diperlukannya tindakan nyata akuntan untuk pemberantasan korupsi. Artikel ini mencoba untuk membahas dengan sudut pandang etika, agama dan cinta akuntan dalam perannya membangun negara dengan pemberantasan korupsi.
ABSTRACTCorruption starts from a small action that will have a big effect. The size of an act of corruption will have the effect of tearing down a large country. So the real action of accountants is needed to eradicate corruption. This article tries to discuss with the perspective of ethics, religion and love of accountants in their role in building the country by eradicating corruption.
In order to get the maximum income from Motor Vehicle Tax, it is necessary to have compliance from the taxpayer itself. The level of taxpayer compliance can be affected by the existence of tax sanctions as a preventive effort to curb and deter taxpayers and tax offenders. However, large accumulated tax sanctions often make people with limited income not paying their obligations. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of tax sanctions on taxpayer compliance with taxpayer income levels as a moderating variable. This research was a quantitative study which used multiple linear regression analysis method with 100 individual taxpayers as the sample. The data were collected using a closed-ended questionnaire with Likert scale. The results show that motor vehicle tax sanctions provide 12.4% effectiveness on taxpayer compliance, while the income level of taxpayers is not a moderating variable that affects the relationship between tax sanctions and taxpayer compliance.
AbstrakPenelian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor yang mempengaruhi disfungsional auditor dan bagaimana cara penanggulangannya. Perilaku audit disfungsional merupakan tindakan auditor dalam pelaksanaan program audit yang dapat mereduksi kualitas audit secara langsung maupun tidak langsung. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, penelitian kualitatif adalah penelitian yang menggunakan pendekatan naturalistik untuk mencari dan menemukan pengertian atau pemahaman tren tentang fenomena dalam suatu latar yang berkonteks khusus. Dalam rangka menemukan pemahaman mengenai fenomena dalam penelitian ini digunakan paradigma interpretif dengan berusaha untuk menggali dunia apa adanya, dengan pendekatanpengalaman subyektif sendiri. Paradigma ini memasukkan pemikiran filosofis dan sosiologis yang berusaha memahami dan menjelaskan dunia sosial dari titikpandang para aktor yang secara langsung terlibat di dalam proses sosial, sehingga hubungan antara peneliti dengan yang diteliti aktif bersama tidak dapat dipisahkan, bersifat ideografik dan terikat dengan nilai-nilai. Hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan bahwa perilaku disfungsional auditor (1) disebabkan karena adanya konflik kepentingan antar pihak yang terkait dalam penugasan audit. (2) tekanan anggaran waktu dalam penyelesaian laporan keuangan,kopensasi finansial yang diberikan kepada auditor dan (3) keinginan perpindahan auditor sangat mempengaruhi prilaku disfungsional auditor. Utuk bentuk penanggulangannya sangat diperlukan peranan pemerintah dalam hal ini IAI yang menentukan regulasi dan sangat ampuh dalam menekan prilaku disfungsional auditor.Kata kunci : prilaku, disfungsional auditor, dan bentuk penanggulangan Abstract Study presented here aims to determine the factors that influence the auditor dysfunctional and how to overcome them. Dysfunctional audit behavior is any act of auditors in the implementation of the audit program which can reduce the quality
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