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This study aimed to analyze the influence of Return On Investment,Debt To Equity Ratio, Economic Value Added, and Inflation on StockReturns. This study was made as there are differences between the results ofresearch with each other and so can be used to predict fluctuations stockreturns.Sample of this research is 135 others company in IDX with methodpurposive sampling.This study uses multiple linear regression statistic to testthe hypothesis. The variable used in this study Return On Investment, DebtTo Equity Ratio, Economic Value Added, Inflation, and Stock Returns. Typeof data used in the form of secondary data is data such as notes and reportstaken from Indonesian Capital Market Directory.The results showed that simultan independent variables effect on stockreturn. While research is partially showed Return On Investment positive andnot significant effect on stock returns. While Debt To Equity Ratio negativeand significant effect on stock returns. Meanwhile Economic Value Addedpositive and significant effect on stock returns. And then inflation negativeand not significant effect on stock returns. In addition it was found that thevalue of adjusted R square is 5,8%. This means that 5,8% of the movement ofstock returns can be predicted from the four variables, while at 94,2% isexplained by other variables outside the model

The purpose of this study re-write the understanding of the tax laws and officials tax service on taxpayer compliance with risk prefernces as a moderating variable. The population in this research in taxpayer MSMEs listed in KPP Pratama Demak. The sampling tehnique was convenience sampling method which produced a sample of 88 MSMEs. The analysis methode that used in study is a multiple linier regression analysis. The results showed that an understanding of the tax law and officials tax service have positif significant effect on taxpayer compliance MSMEs partially in Demak residence. The risk preferences cannot the relationship between the understanding of the tax laws with tax compliance and the relationship between officials tax service with tax compliance. Keywords: the understanding of the tax laws, officials tax service, taxpayer compliance, risk preferences

Willingness to pay taxes is a necessary first step to carry out taxation. It's own volition arise based on many factors that influence it. This study was to find out how much influence the awareness factor to pay taxes, knowledge and understanding of tax regulations, a good perception of the effectiveness of the tax system, and the Sunset Policy jointly on the level of willingness to pay taxes in the region of UMKM Semarang. Data collection is done by collecting primary data in the form of questionnaires. The research sample consists of 131 taxpayers who have been willing to fill in questionnaires. While a decent sample processed in this study were 125 questionnaires. Method to answer the research question is processed by linear regression using SPSS. Results of research showed that: (1) consciousness of paying taxes and a significant positive effect on willingness to pay taxes. (2) Knowledge and understanding of tax regulations have a negative influence and no significant on willingness to pay taxes. (3) A good perception of the effectiveness of the tax system has positive affect and significant on willingness to pay taxes. Key words: Willingness to pay taxes, Consciousness of paying taxes, Knowledge and understanding of tax regulations, a good perception of the  effectiveness of the tax system

This study aims to investigate the influence of Problem-Based Learning/PBL) to increase student’s softskills in Accounting Department at Ambon City and then simultaneously generate accounting learning model that can be used by universities to improve the quality of learning both personal qualities and scientific quality through analytical skills, creativity, and open to innovation and new findings. The population in this study were students from the Department of Accounting at the Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Pattimura University in Darussalam Ambon. Samples were students from the Department of Accounting that would  taken courses in Management Accounting at Department of Accounting - FE Pattimura University, and Darussalam University in Ambon City. In every department, sampling of 30 people. The sampling technique used is nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling. Methods of data collection begins with the class treatments (to make small groups, giving the case/problem, advice by the facilitator, discussion in small group, resume small group, and facilitators make conclusions on the problems discussed), then a questionnaire distributed to respondents for answering that how perception’s respondent of PBL influence to  increase in student’s softskills. The results of hypothesis testing with simple regression analysis showed that problem-based learning (PBL) to have significant effect on the increase student’s softskill in university of state and university of private at Ambon City.   Key Words: Problem-Based Learning, Softskills

This reserach aims to examine and analyze the effect of perceived behavioral control, financial condition, the condition ofits facilities and the organization climatic conditions on tax compliance manufacturing industry. The population in thisstudy is the Corporate Tax payers manufacturing industry in the territory of Salatiga STO. Sample selection method usedwas convinience sampling. The data analysis technique used is multiple regression linier analysis. Based on the results oftests performed can be found that the perception of behavioral control, financial condition, the condition of its facilitiesand the organization climatic conditions and a significant positive effect on tax compliance entities, either partially orsimultaneouslyKeywords: perceived behavioral control, financial condition, the condition of its facilities, the organizationclimaticconditions and compliance corporate tax payers

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of corporate governance mechanism on financial performance in thebanking sector. The independent variables consist of institutional ownership, management ownership, independent boarddirector, board of directors and audit committee. Bank performance is measured by Return On Equity (ROE). Thepopulation in this study is the bank listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in the period 2011-2013. This study datacome from bank annual reports obtained from the Indonesian Stock Exchange website and Indonesian Capital MarketDirectory (ICMD). By purposive sampling method, this research got28 samples in each period, so 84 (28 sample × 3years) annual report will be used in this research. The analysis technique used to test the hypothesis is multiple regressionwith SPSS 16.The results show that the board of directors have a positive effect to the bank performance. Iinstitutionalownership has a negative effect to bank performance. However, management ownership, independent board and auditcommittee have no influence to bank performance.Keywords: Institutional ownership, Management ownership, Independent board directors, Board of directors, Auditcommittee, Return on equity, corporate governance

BlackBerry is a mobile phone made in Canada. BlackBerry was firstintroduced in 1999, and is presented in Indonesia in mid-December 2004. Sinceit was first introduced, the BlackBerrywas much in demand by various groupswith the support of various mobile operators both CDMA and GSM. However,in these days it has decreased significantly. Most users at the end of 2012 asmuch as 79 million active use of BlackBerry mobile phones are recorded. But atthe end of March 2013it decreased as much as 3 million users and it decreasedup to 4 million users at the end of June 2013 who no longer use BlackBerrymobile phone. The final user of BlackBerry mobile phones is 72 million. Thepurpose of this study was to analyze the effect of brand characteristics, companycharacteristics, brand characteristics,and the consumer - perceived benefits to theconsumer brand loyalty on BlackBerry mobile phones in STIE TOTALWINSemarang.The population in this study were students STIE TOTALWINSemarang. Based on Slovin formula, the sample size was 100 respondents thatwere obtained by purposive sampling technique, i.e. students who use BlackBerryphones, at least one month and have experience in using another mobile phone.Primary data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed with multiplelinear regression analysis.The results showed that the Brand Characteristics,Company Characteristics, Consumer-Brand Characteristics and Perceived valuehas significant and positive effect on Brand Loyalty, both partially andsimultaneously. Company Characteristics became the biggest factors influencingbrand loyalty.

The development of the capital market in Indonesia is very rapidly.This is an indicator that the capital market is an alternative source offunding in addition to banking, in addition to the growing capital marketsalso showed that the confidence of investors will invest in Indonesia capitalmarket is quite good. The information required by the investors in the capitalmarkets is not only a fundamental information, but also information that istechnical in nature. The fundamental nature of the information obtainedfrom the financial reports of companies, and the technical nature of theinformation obtained from outside companies such as inflation, interest ratesand other factors.The samples of this research are company manufacturing food andbeverage sector in 2008-2012 by using 16 companies with purposivesampling method. The results of the research with multiple linear regressionshowed that the CR, DER, TAT, ROA, PER and interest rate do not haveeffect on stock return. While inflation has a negative significant effect onstock returns.

The development of a business unit can be affected by a variety offactors, both internal and external company factors. The purpose of thisresearch is to know the influence of the business network, and productinnovation against the performance of micro, small and medium enterprises.The research type is explanatory research. The population was 162 unitsfrom small and medium metal industries in Boyolali District with 85sample taken using disproportionate stratified random sampling and simplerandom sampling. Data collection using the questionnaire. Data analysisusing linear regression analysis. The results showed that the businessnetwork, and product innovation are jointly undertaking a positive andsignificant effect against performance of micro, small and mediumenterprises. Researchers suggest that UMKM constantly enhance cooperationwith various parties to build wider business network, andimprove productinnovation so that UMKM can continue to thrive in the midst of the currentcompetition.

This study examines the effect of environmental performance measured from PROPER ( Performance Rating Program in Environmental Management ) towards sustainability report disclosure practices and economic performance . Sustainability Report ( SR ) was measured by 79 items of disclosure by the GRI G3 (2006) , while the economic performance using scale industries calculated return of Al - Tuwaijiri , et al . (2004) . Samples in this study were taken by purposive sampling technique that companies listed on the Stock Exchange and publish an annual report in 2011-2012 . The statistical methods used in this study is a simple regression analysis to examine the effect of environmental performance on sustainability report and multiple regression analysis to examine the effect of environmental performance and sustainability report on economic performance . Data analysis and hypotheses tests in this study using SPSS version 16. Results showed that the company's environmental performance have a significant positive effect on Sustainability Report Diclosure. Meanwhile, the results of the second hypothesis shows that environmental performance has a significant impact on economic performance. And the results showed that the third hypothesis Sustainability Report Diclosure have a significant positive effect on economic performance .Keywords : Global Reporting Initiative , Sustainability Reporting , Economic Performance , Environmental Performance

The objective of this research is to empirically examine about the factors affecting the Composite Stock Index in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The factors are SBI Rate, World Oil Price, World Gold Price, and Exchange Rate of Indonesia Rupiah. The sample of this research is monthly data of the SBI Rate, World Oil Price, World Gold Price, Exchange Rate of Indonesia Rupiah, and Composite Stock Index from October, 2007 until September, 2012. This research uses multiple regression analysis.The result of this research shows that the SBI Rate negatively affect the composite stock indeks (IHSG), while the world oil price and world gold price positively affect the IHSG. But, the exchange rate of Indonesia rupiah is not affect the IHSG. The value of adjusted R square is 0.519%. This means that 51.90% IHSG movement can be predicted by the movement of the four independent variables. Keywords: sbi rate, world oil price, world gold price, exchange rate of indonesia rupiah, IHSG

This study examines the effect of time budget pressure as a moderating variable on the relationship between individual factors, namely accountability, ethical awareness, and auditor independence and audit quality on BPK Representative Maluku province. Respondents are auditors working on BPK RI Representative Maluku Province. Population are42 respondents, but only 34 respondents who returns quesionary and can be used in data processing. The sampling method used is census sampling. Data processing is performed using moderated regression analysis (MRA) and assisted by SPSS version 17.0. The results showed that time budget pressure to moderate the relationship between accountability and audit quality as well as moderate the relationship between ethical awareness and the audit quality, but time budget pressure has not influence moderate therelationof auditor independence and audit quality. Keywords: accountability, ethical awareness, auditor independence, time budget pressure, audit quality

The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence about the influence of perceived benefits (perceived benefits) and perceived credibility (perceived credibility) to the use of e-banking. This study is based on Social Contract Theory and the Theory of Diffusion of Innovations. Samples are intended private companies located in Yogyakarta and gained as much as 71 companies. Statistical analysis is done is test the initial validity and reliability tests early, test construct validity and reliability tests construct instruments, test Classical Assumptions: Normality test, test Multicollinearity, Heteroskidastity test, and autocorrelation test. Multiple Regression Analysis to test the empirical model and hypotheses. The results showed that the perceived benefits of (Perceived Benefits) has a positive effect on the use of e-banking. However, the influence of perceived credibility (Perceived Credibility) against the use of E-Banking (E-Banking Usage) is not proven. Keywords: social contract theory, theory of diffusion of innovations, benefits perceived, perceived credibility and use of e-banking.

Globalization is a process of economic activity and trade, where countriesaround the world into a single market forces increasingly integrated with theterritorial limits of the country without hindrance. Developments in this eraof globalization impact to human life. Based on these conditions, affect theappearance of many engaged in the retail trade of daily consumer goods invarious cities in Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the effect of Display,Positive Emotion and Store Atmosphere toImpulse Buying.This study used accidental sampling method on the visitor AlfamartCitarum Raya Semarang. Data obtained by distributing 100 questionnairesto the visitors Alfamart Citarum Raya Semarang. The independent variablein this study is the Display of Positive Emotion and Atmosphere Store whilethe dependent variableis the Impulse Buying. The statistical methods used inthis study is the Multiple Linear Regression AnalysisThe results oft his study indicate that the variable Display and PositiveEmotion there is a significant effect on Impulse Buiyng. As for theAtmosphere Store variables showed no significant effect on Impulse Buying.The results of this study also showed that the value of R Square of 21.6%while the remaining 78.4% is explained by other variables that are notproposed in this study.

The research want to analysis about corruption and economic growth. The method of analysis use pooling data. Number of cross-section data are 33 provinces and times-series data are three years. The best model obtained from redundant fixed effect test and correlated random effects-Hausman test. The model used an estimation methodin whichthe cross-section is none and the period is fixed. Based on regression output, corruption has negative significant to Indonesia economic growth. So,corruption becomea grease of wheel for indonesia economics. The meaning is corruption increase economic growth. There areten provincesin which theCPI variable significantly to economic growth. Two provinceshave negatif significant and others positif significant to economic growth. If the ten provinces removed from regression,CPI becomes insignificant. So, the ten provinces have big influence to Indonesia economics, especially in CPI.Key words: CPI, economics growth, pooling data, none, fixed, and grease of wheel

This study aimed to examine the effect of the Capital Adequacy Ratio ( CAR ) , Net Interest Margin ( NIM ) , Loan to Deposit Ratio ( LDR ) , Non Performing Loan ( NPL ) , Operating Expenses and Operating Income ( ROA ) and Asset Quality ( KAP ) Changes to income , the banking companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. The study took 61 banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2009-2011 as the sample. The independent variables in this study are the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Net Interest Margin (NIM) , Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR) , Non Performing Loan (NPL) , Operating Expenses and Operating Income (OEOI/BOPO) and Asset Quality (AQ/KAP), and the dependent variable is Income Changes (IC/ROA). The Technique Applied in taking sample is purposive sampling .The data analysis applied is multiple linear regression based on OLS (Ordinary Least Squerst). Theresults of the study indicates that CAR variable has effect on the profit change with significance value at 0.011. NIMvariable has no effect on profit changes with significance value aat 0.306 , LDRvariablehas no significant effect on profit changes at 0.895, NPLvariable has positif effectbut, it is not significant on profit changes at 0.188, OEOI/BOPOBOPO variable has negatif effect but it is significant on profit changes at 0,044 and AQ/KAPvariable hassignificanteffect at 0,009.Key words: CAR, NIM, LDR, NPL, OEOI/BOPO, AQ/KAP and Profit change.

The aim of this research is to examine the influence of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR), Operating Expense to Operational Earnings (OEOE), Non Performing Loan (NPL) to the charge of Rentability wich is proxy by Return On Assets (ROA). The research uses purposive sampling method to collect data and uses multi linear regression model to analyze data. The result shows that partially LDR has a significant positive impact on ROA and BOPO has a significant negative impact on ROA. While CAR and NPL has insignificant impact on ROA. Then simultaneously CAR, LDR, BOPO, and NPL have significant effect on ROA. The Adjusted R Square is 0.51. This indicates the predictive ability of the five variables on ROA is 51 % of ROA's change is depend on the variables in the model and the remaining 49% are influenced bythe other factors.Key words: Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Loan to Deposit Ratio (LDR), O

This study aims to analyze the factors that affect the capital structure. Factors examined as independent variables are profitability, company size, business risk, growth opportunities and managerial ownership. Variable profitability, company size, business risk is analyzed in the perspective of the pecking order theory and variable growth opportunities and managerial ownership is analyzed in the perspective of agency theory.Hypothesis testing using multiple regression. The population in this study is manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange. Sampling technique using purposive sampling method. The samples used 222 observations are pooled data from 2008 to 2010. Types of data used are secondary data. Statistical tests showed hypotheses for the variables profitability and business risk accepted. This means that the profitability and business risk significantly and negatively related to capital structure. Hypothesis testing results for firm size variable positive and significant impact on capital structure. Thus the hypothesis is rejected due to size of company direction opposite hypothesis. Variable growth opportunities and managerial ownership and significant negative effect on capital structure.Keywords: capital structure, profitability, company size, business risk, growth opportunity, managerial ownership, the pecking order theory, agency theory.

The purpose of this research is to analysis the influence of Camel (CAR,PPAP,DER,BOPO,LDR) toward Performance of Banking Companies  in Indonesia This research use secondary data, with the source of data from Bank Indonesia and Indonesia Capital Market Directory publication. Technical sampling used purposive sampling and total sample is 85 firm with the 86 observation sample. The analysis use regression least square –OLS. The result of Capital Adequacy Ratio/CAR and Loan to Deposit Ratio are significant positive influence to the Return On Asset/ROA, but PPAP have positive and not significant influence to Return On Asset, Debt to Equity Ratio/DER have positive significant to Return On Asset , BOPO have positive and not significant to Return On Asset. Key word:   capital adequacy ratio, ppap, debt to equity ratio, bopo, loan to deposit  ratio, return to asset

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of job experience, independence, objectivity, integrity, and competence on the quality of audit results at Representatives BPKP of Central Java. Job experience was measured by indicators the length of works as an auditor and the number of inspection tasks are performed. Independence was measured by indicators of independence in programming, in the execution of work, and independence in reporting.Objectivity was measured by indicator, free from conflict of interest and disclosure of factual conditions. Integrity was measured by indicator honesty, courege, prudence, and responsibility that auditors have. Competency was measured by indicator personal quality, general knowledge, and specialized expertise. While quality of audit results was measured by indicator of compliance with auditing standard and quality of examination report. The population of this study is civil servants whose work at Representatives BPKP of Central Java with sample is the civil servants has been following education and training as functional auditor. Data analysis was performed with multiple linear regression model. Test result showed that job experience, independence, and objectivity has no effect on quality of audit result at representatives BPKP of Central Java. While the integrity and competence have influence to quality of audit result at representatives BPKP of Central Java. Key words: job experience, independency, objectivity, integrity, competency, quality of audit result.