The Impact of The COVID-19 Pandemic on Indonesian Retail Companies' Working Capital Management

Indonesian government imposed a social distancing policy in response to the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic but still allowed companies to operate their business with several restrictions. As a result, retail companies had to manage their working capital more prudently in order to keep the stability of their business operations. This research aims to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working capital management of Indonesian retail companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The results of the current study showed that the COVID-19 pandemic did not affect profitability (measured by return on assets and return on equity) and the working capital management (measured by cash conversion cycle and working capital requirement) of retail companies. However, other proxies of working capital management (i.e., net liquid balance and operating cash flow) were found to be significantly different before COVID-19 and during the pandemic

The effects of job cognition and personality type on auditor judgment

Despite the fact that much research on factors influencing auditor judgment has been carried out, job  cognition and personality type have received little attention from behavioral researches. This study aims to investigate empirical evidence of the effect of job cognition and personality type on auditor judgment. Mail questionnaires were used to collect data from auditors working at public accounting firms in Jakarta and Surabaya.The multiple regression analysis conducted to test the research hypotheses shows that personality type significantly influences auditor judgment. However, the research does not find any empirical evidence that job cognition has a significant effect on auditor judgment.

The effects of job cognition and personality type on auditor judgment

Despite the fact that much research on factors influencing auditor judgment has been carried out, job  cognition and personality type have received little attention from behavioral researches. This study aims to investigate empirical evidence of the effect of job cognition and personality type on auditor judgment. Mail questionnaires were used to collect data from auditors working at public accounting firms in Jakarta and Surabaya.The multiple regression analysis conducted to test the research hypotheses shows that personality type significantly influences auditor judgment. However, the research does not find any empirical evidence that job cognition has a significant effect on auditor judgment.

Pelatihan Software Akuntansi untuk Musyawarah Guru Mata Pelajaran Ekonomi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta

Economic disruption and changes in corporate operations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will necessitate the understanding and control of artificial intelligence, or robots. This is a major issue, but it is also important for economic teachers to introduce companies that are already successful and sophisticated. Accounting software may help make bookkeeping, analyzing, reporting, and investigating easier and more precise; this concludes an opportunity in this era. Therefore, educational institutions must develop graduates who are adaptable and have soft skills. The Accounting Program and Financial Accounting Pillar team respond to economic teachers at MGMP in the Special Region of Yogyakarta by organizing a discussion forum and simulation to provide them with knowledge and best practices for using accounting software to manage business activities and achieve effective and efficient business outcomes. These exercises involve a class lecture using an andragogic approach. The discussion results suggest that economic teachers have best practices to offer accounting software to their pupils. On the other hand, it can increase teaching motivation for improving both financial and technology for themselves and the topic itself

THE IMPACT OF CYBER-SLACKING ON ACCOUNTING STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Over the past three decades, the accounting profession has acknowledged the necessity of incorporating information technology into student education. Educational institutions around the globe have used the Internet to deliver learning materials and communicate with students at much faster speeds. However, the use of Internet technologies can also become a source of distraction, if used for non-learning purposes. Using the Internet during class for something other than courserelated activities is commonly known as „cyber-slacking‟ in the classroom. The present study aims to investigate the impact of accounting students‟ cyber-slacking behaviours on their academic performance. It specifically focuses on the following question: Does cyber-slacking in the classroom negatively influence accounting students’ academic performance? The sample is conveniently drawn from undergraduate accounting students of a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The findings of this study indicate that cyber-slacking in the classroom has no significant impact on accounting students‟ academic performance

Family Ownership and Corporate Performance

The paper aims to investigate whether family ownership as controlling shareholder effect on firm performance. This paper uses ultimate (direct and indirect) ownership to identify a listed firm owned by family or non-family. Family ownership is majority shareholder for listed companies in Indonesia. Family ownership will be good impact (competitive advantage) or bad impact (private benefit) on companies. The study also motivates to study this topic because investigating on family ownership as controlling shareholder is limited in Indonesia. The study uses panel data or pooled data. The method for collecting data is archival. Unit of analysis of the study is organization. Sample of this study is 604 observations during 2001-2007. This study uses purposive sampling to collect data from the Indonesian Stock Exchange. This study collects and searches ultimate ownership on chain of ownership structure in manufacturing companies listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange. This study uses ultimate ownership to identify family ownership or non-family ownership because the reality of ownership structure in public companies in Indonesia is concentrated. This study identifies direct and indirect ownerships on chain of ownership. Based on direct and indirect, this study can identify ultimate ownership whether are family or non-family ownership. This study uses return on assets to proxy firm performance. The return is operating income. To analysis data, this study uses multiple reggresion model. Dependend variable is firm performance and independen variable is family ownership. The results of this study are family ownership negatively affect to firm performance. It indicates that ownership by family reduce firm performance. These results suggest that entrenchment effect is more dominant than alignment effect on the family ownership. The research focus only for manufacturing industry and data is only from 2001-2007. The results of the study will impact for regulation to lead listed companies have to disclosure the ultimate owner because it is a potential agency problem in Indonesia. The results also give information for potential and existing investor to give more pay attention on financial statements because it is potential to mislead on the statements. Keywords : Ultimate Ownership, Family, Firm Performance, Entrenchment Effec