The Role of Government Internal Control System Quality in Moderating the Relationship of Financial Reports Quality and Local Government Performance

Abstract

Empirical test of the role of the quality of the internal control system in strengthening the relationship between the financial reports quality and the local governments performance in Indonesia used secondary data in the form of the BPK RI audit report and the Appendixs in the 2016 and 2018 of Regional Government Implementation Performance Evaluation Report (EKPPD). The population of 514 regency and city governments in Indonesia. The sampling technique was purposive sampling with a total of 268 regency and city governments using data for 3 years, the total sample was 804. Variable measurement used index, time dimension used panel data. The results showed that the quality of financial reports had a positive and significant effect on the local government performance, then the quality of the government internal control system (SPIP) cannot strengthen the relationship between the quality of financial reports and the performance of local governments. The research results were expected to contribute to the policy that the implementation of the local government internal control system should be the focus of the relevant agencies. The limitation of this research is the large gap score on the key performance indicator in each region EKPPD.