Reduced Audit Quality Practices among Local-Government’s Internal Auditors: What to do with Stress and Working Condition

  • Rinto Ariwibowo Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
  • Nurkholis Nurkholis Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
  • Erwin Saraswati Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the influence and effect of stress and its ?predecessor through ?the lens of Job-Demand ?Resource Theory (JD-R). ?This research utilizes the quality of working life and work ?interference with personal life as ?predictors of stress and reduced audit quality practice. ?The ?subjects of ?this study involved 326 local government internal auditors in Bali ??Area. Quantitative analysis using PLS-SEM demonstrated both ?predictors’ effects in ?forming auditor’s stress. The study also confirms ?that stress mediates the ?formation of reduced audit quality ?practices among auditors. The result of the study is ?expected to give ?strategic recommendations to Government ?Internal Control Apparatus/Aparat Pengawasan Intern Pemerintah ??(APIP) management to promote better stress ?management and work-life balance programme, expecting ?to prevent dysfunctional audit practices while optimizing their ?audit quality.


Keywords: job demand resource theory, quality of working life, work ?interference with personal life, job stress, reduced audit quality practice

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Author Biography

Rinto Ariwibowo, Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia

Magister Akuntansi, Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis (FEB), Universitas Brawijaya Malang

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2023-01-31
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ARIWIBOWO, Rinto; NURKHOLIS, Nurkholis; SARASWATI, Erwin. Reduced Audit Quality Practices among Local-Government’s Internal Auditors: What to do with Stress and Working Condition. Jurnal Ilmiah Akuntansi dan Bisnis, [S.l.], v. 18, n. 1, p. 90-114, jan. 2023. ISSN 2303-1018. Available at: <https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/jiab/article/view/92231>. Date accessed: 21 nov. 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.24843/JIAB.2023.v18.i01.p07.
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