Jurnal Akuntansi
Vol. 23 No. 3 (2019): September 2019

The Impact Of Audit Committe Characteristics On Audit Quality

Paradisa Sukma (Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Airlangga, Surabaya)
Yustrida Bernawati (Faculty of Economic and Business, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Sep 2019

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of audit committee characteristics on audit quality. The characteristics of the audit committee used in this study are the number of audit committees, number of audit committee meetings, audit committee education background, and audit committee experience while audit quality is measured using audit fees. This study uses manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2016 - 2018 with 70 observation data and uses OLS regression. The results of this study indicate all four Audit Characteristics, only size and experience significantly influence audit quality. While audit meetings and education do not significantly affect audit quality. Likewise with the education that can not ensure the capabilities possessed by members of the audit committee. Overall, the effectiveness of the audit committee has no significant effect on audit quality.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EJA

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Jurnal Akuntansi [p-ISSN 1410-3591 | e-ISSN 2549-8800] is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year (January, May, and September) by Faculty of Economics, Universitas Tarumanagara. Jurnal Akuntansi is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on ...