“…So far, any direct relationship between affective organizational commitment and budgetary slack has not been adequately examined in the prior research. Several studies related to budgetary slack in Indonesia include: testing the influence of reputation on the relationship between information asymmetry and budgetary slack under truth-inducing compensation methods (Brahmayanti and Sholihin, 2006); testing the effect of compliance and perceived responsibility on creating budgetary slack (Grediani and Sugiri, 2010); testing budget participation and budget target clarity on budgetary slack with information on asymmetry, organizational commitment, and budget emphasis as moderating variables (Murtin and Septiadi, 2012); testing whether career uncertainty moderates the relationship between participative budgeting and budgetary slack (Widanaputra and Mimba, 2014); testing the effect of budgetary participation on budgetary slack with information asymmetry, budget emphasis and organizational commitment as moderating variables (Irfan et al, 2016); testing participative budgeting, budgetary slack and job satisfaction in the public sector (Kahar et al, 2016); and investigating whether a shared financial interest in the creation of slack, another employee's awareness regarding misreporting, and perceived fairness affect a manager's honesty in the budget's reporting using a management theory (Rosdini, 2016). Research by Murtin and Septiadi (2012), Irfan et al (2016) used organizational commitment as a moderating variable.…”