Media Riset Akuntansi Auditing & Informasi
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2020): September

DOES INTERNAL CONTROL WORK? FRAUD CASE IN GOVERNMENT SECTOR - INDONESIAN EVIDENCE

Hasnawati Hasnawati (Universitas Trisakti)
Muhammad Nuryatno Amin (Universitas Trisakti)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2020

Abstract

This research analyzed the role of internal control in reducing intention to do fraud. Internal control becomes a variable that moderates the relationship between organizational culture, information asymmetry and law enforcement with a person's intention to commit fraud. This research took place in Sorong West Papua, a province in Eastern Indonesia. Respondents from this research are government employees and taken with convenience sampling method.The findings of this study are: This study proved that the greater the information asymmetry, the higher the intention to do fraud. In addition law enforcement and regulation could reduce fraud intention. However, this study had not proven the influence of organizational culture on fraud and this study also failed to prove the role of internal control to reduce fraud intentionThis research had a practical contribution where in this case, law enforcement and regulation becomes the most important thing in reducing fraud intention. Besides it is necessary to improve the internal control system in order to function as expected. The originality of this study, there are still little empirical research that discusses the study of internal control functions associated with the reduction of fraud intention.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

mraai

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Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

Media Riset Akuntansi Auditing & Informasi (MRAAI) has published by Lembaga Penerbit Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis (LPFEB) Universitas Trisakti since 2002, three times a year, (April, August, December). This journal was accredited by Dikti of 2006-2009. Start from 2015, we change the publication ...