The Indonesian Accounting Review
Vol 9, No 2 (2019): July - December 2019

The effect of political connection and effectiveness of audit committee on audit fee

Fitri Nurjanah (Unknown)
Erina Sudaryati (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2019

Abstract

This study analyzes the effect of political connection and effectiveness of audit committee on audit fee. This study uses the sample of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in 2015-2017. They were take using a purposive sampling method. The total number of companies is 444 companies. The data were analyzed using SPSS 20 and the hypothesis testing was done using linear regression with a significance level of 5%. The F test indicates that the research model is stable and significant. The value of R square is 38.4%, indicating that there are other variables that can affect the model by 61.6%. The results of this study show that political connection has a significant positive effect on audit fee and the effectiveness of audit committee also has a significant positive effect on audit fee because audit committee wants a higher audit quality from the auditor.

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