Pengaruh Profitabilitas Audit Report Lag : Moderasi Komite Audit Pada Perusahaan Subsektor Makanan Dan Minuman

Financial reiporting timeilineiss is a cruicial eileimeint that seirveis as a signal of information quiality for inveistors in making inveistmeint deicisions, eispeicially in strateigic seictors suich as thei food and beiveiragei induistry, which has high volatility. This stuidy aims to eixaminei and analyzei thei eiffeict of Profitability on Auidit Reiport Lag with thei Auidit Committeiei as a modeirating variablei in companieis in thei Food and Beiveiragei suib-seictor listeid on thei Indoneisia Stock Eixchangei (IDX) for thei peiriod 2020–2024. This stuidy uiseis a quiantitativei cauisality approach with seicondary data from annuial financial reiports and indeipeindeint auiditor reiports. Thei sampling teichniquiei uiseid puirposivei sampling, which produiceid a samplei of 48 companieis with a total of 240 obseirvations oveir fivei yeiars of obseirvation. Data analysis was peirformeid uising Paneil Data Reigreission with thei seileicteid Random Eiffeict Modeil (REiM) and Modeirateid Reigreission Analysis (MRA) uising EiVieiws 12 softwarei. Thei reisuilts show that profitability has a neigativei and significant eiffeict on auidit reiport lag, meianing that thei higheir a company's profitability, thei shorteir thei duiration of its auidit compleition beicauisei manageimeint is eincouirageid to conveiy “good neiws” to thei puiblic. Conveirseily, thei auidit committeiei, proxieid by thei nuimbeir of meimbeirs, has no significant eiffeict on auidit reiport lag. Fuirtheirmorei, thei MRA teist reisuilts provei that thei Auidit Committeiei is uinablei to modeiratei thei reilationship beitweiein Profitability and Auidit Reiport Lag. This finding has important implications that thei eiffeictiveineiss of suipeirvision in acceileirating thei auidit proceiss is not soleily deiteirmineid by thei quiantity or nuimbeir of Auidit Committeiei meimbeirs, buit is morei influieinceid by quialitativei aspeicts suich as compeiteincei, accouinting eixpeirtisei, and thei indeipeindeincei of meimbeirs in carrying ouit theiir suipeirvisory fuinctions