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The rapid economic and business development affects business actors to enhance their awareness to manage the businessby implementing Good Corporate Governance (GCG). The implementation is aimed to avoid deceitfulness that endangerscompany’s assets. GCG becomes a key of success for a company to grow and earn profit in a long term, so it can winglobal competitiveness. The implementation of GCG in BUMN is not easy. So, it needs more independent and professionalmanagement to do its tasks. The role of independent internal auditors is important in implementing GCG. The internalaudits are required to provide information on sufficiency and affectivity of company’s internal control. An internal auditormust be one who has competency in finance because his role is to watch managerial activities. Besides knowledge onauditing, an auditor is expected to have knowledge on audited substance. Therefore, the competency of internal auditorsare needed to bridge the needs of Commissioner Board on auditing roles and internal controls with constraints absorptionof technical problems in accounting, auditing, and internal control. The result of this research showed that most BUMNs inbanking sector in Central Java have implemented GCG. The internal audits are in line with Commissioner Board, if so theBoard makes mistakes, it will be easily detected.Key Word : Internal audit, Good Corporate Government

Financial literacy is one of the needs for everyone in order to manage their personal finance.Person's ability to read, analyze, manage financial condition in making financial decisions can be made ​​to avoid financial problems. This study aims to determine whether factors such as gender, faculty, and grade point average (GPA) effect on student financial literacy. This research surveys 333 college students of Economics and Business Faculty also Science and Mathematics Faculty of Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW) to examine their personal financial literacy based on gender, faculty and Grade Point Average (GPA).Binary logistic used to analyze the data.Results of this study indicate that financial literacy is influenced by faculty, whereas gender and GPA does not affect financial literacy. This study is expected to support the science of personal finance is still relatively rare compared to research in the field of corporate finance and capital markets.. Keywords: Financial Literacy, Gender, Faculty, Grade Point Average (GPA)

International Financial Reporting Standards are standards focusedin fair value approach on measurement and disclosure criteria that requirethe greater extent of the exerciseof professional judgment. This study aims tounderstand the exercise of auditor professional judgment in InternationalFinancial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in fair value of fixed assets, tounderstand the factors that contribution in exercising professional judgmenton fair value of fixed assets and what constrains that emerge whenexercising professional judgment in fair value of fixed assets as well assolution that can be done to overcome these problem.This study uses qualitative research methods with aphenomenological approach as it is meant to analyze and look for themeaning behind the experiences of the auditor in exercising their professionaljudgment. This study focused on the exercise of professional judgment on thefair value of fixed assets. The research was conducted through interviewswith auditors who work as public accountants in public accounting firm.Results of this study indicate that auditors exercise their professionaljudgment to review the appraisal value by assessing the reasonableness of theassumptions, methods and data used. Auditors exercise their professionaljudgment by considering the factors that influenced such as consideration ofmateriality, subjectivity, knowledge, and experience as well as factors such asthe audit job IFRS requirements, the nature of accounts, compliances withIFRS, audit history, engagement management, fraud risk and going concern.The auditor had no difficulties in using professional judgment in assessingthe fair value of fixed assets due to the existing appraisal valuation. Insteadauditor experienced problems when assessing the fair value of financialinstruments is important for future research. Finally, team work anddiscussion are solution that auditors used to overcome the problem inexercising professional judgment.

Bank Indonesia, together with the financial accounting standards boardissued financial standards governing the allowance for credit losses dueto the enactment of the international financial standards IFRS.Provision for credit losses is very important for banks to be able to copewith the risk of losses incurred due to the failure of the bank disbursedloan repayments. Banking indirectly still have a dilemma with theapplication of IAS 50 on financial instruments presentation of IAS 55and IAS 60 regarding measurement of the disclosure. These applicationshave benefits in addition to the problems in the implementation.

Foreign Direct Investment flows to developing countries surged in the 1990s, to become their leading source of external financing. This raises in FDI volume make government must be generate domestic policies to push FDI inflows. The first step is identification macroeconomic determinants of FDI inflows.Globerman and Shapiro (2005) suggest the macroecomic variables, such as, market size, resources, and financial sector, may be associated with FDI inflows, especially in developingcountries. The problem is how far the macroeconomic variable can push FDI inflows, in condition, imperfect economic liberalisation.This study proofs that market size, included, domestic economy (GDP) and extention of domestic economy (Openness) significantly push FDI inflow. But debt variable, despite of associated with government policy, significantly impeded FDI inflows.Key words: Foreign Direct Investment, Market Size, and Financial Sector.

Abstract: The criminal conduct on human trafficking in Indonesia is a complex problem. Poverty and obsession of getting rich at once become the reasons why people are vulnerable to be exploited by the human trafficker. The victims of human trafficking are enforced to work in a long time and prone to suffer from physical, mental as well as sexual abuse. They also don’t have support and minimum protection from the outsider. Their health condition tends to suffer from sexual disease, alcohol and drug addiction. Keywords: criminal prevention, human trafficking.

Abstract: There are two work agreement stated in UU No 13 2003 about labour. They are given-time work agreement and not-given time work agreement. Business people prefer to take the first  for practical reason when they intend to break ther work agreement. That is why government establish rules to protect he labours. However, there ar still some disobedience. Therefore, government still ned to find th solution. Keywords: some problems in given-time work agreement

Abstract: All commercial activities that consist of production, distribution and trading of goods and services to gain the profit should be declared in a contract to give guarantee and assurance to all sides. In the case that there is a conflict, this contract will help them to solve the problem. Keywords: business contract, right and obligation.

The use of revenue sharing between depositors mudharabah saving and the bank in the operation of Islamic Banks, has created an agency problem. Regarding with this problem, Banks should provide both financial and non financial information for the depositors mudharabah saving. This research tests again there is gap in the information provided by banks as the provider of information to the depositors as the user of the information. Based on asymmetry information theory, depositors as a party with less information, would demand more information to the banks. However for some reasons, banks might restrict the information provided to the depositors mudharabah savingOne hundred seventy-five customers consists of mudharabah saving account customer, mudharabah investment account customer, wadiah current account customer and financing customer and ninety seven staffs of Islamic banks in Semarang using technical convenience sampling have been surveyed with questionnaire.This research used independent sample t-test in analyzing the expectation gap of the two groups. The result shows that in general, there is no expectation gap between overall customers and Islamic Banks Managers in both financial and non financial disclosure. But there exists expectation gap between mudharabah investment account customer and Islamic Bank Managers in financial and non financial disclosure.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is improving organizational efficiency and effectiveness by contributing toward resource transformation, innovation and adaptation ability (Williams and Anderson, 1991). The number of employees in Poltekkes Surabaya who are divided into various divisions becomes a problem for human resources management. Therefore, Poltekkes Surabaya director’s managerial ability is greatly determined to organize human resources in order to create an effective and productive organization. In order to find out the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment with organizational citizenship behavior in Health Polytechnic of Surabaya. The research used cross sectional design with subject of Health Polytechnic of Surabaya employees. In order to examine Organizational Citizenship Behavior, the research instrument being used was The Origin Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Questionnaire by Morrison (1994) which already used by Muchiri (2002). Job satisfaction was measured by using Minnesota satisfaction questioner. Organization’s commitment is measured by using questioner which is presented by Allen and Meyer (1990); Panggabean (2004). The research showed that there was a relationship between job satisfaction with OCB with r=0,407; R2 = 0,165 and p Value = 0,000. There was a relationship between organization’s commitment with significant OCB with r =0,2888; R2 = 0,83 and p Value = 0,001. Therefore, there was a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment with organizational citizenship behavior with r=0,441; R2 = 0,194 and p Value = 0,000. In summary, there was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction with organizationalcitizenship behavior. There was a positive and significant relationship between organization’s commitment with organizational citizenship behavior. There was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment with organizationalcitizenship behavior. The research used cross sectional design with subject of Health Polytechnic of Surabaya employees. In order to examine Organizational Citizenship  Behavior, the research instrument being used was The Origin Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Questionnaire by Morrison (1994) which already used by Muchiri (2002). Job satisfaction was measured by using Minnesota satisfaction questioner. Organization’s commitment is measured by using questioner which is presented by Allen and Meyer (1990); Panggabean (2004). The research showed that there was a relationship between job satisfaction with OC Bwith r=0,407; R2 = 0,165 and p Value = 0,000. There was a relationship between organization’s  commitment with significant OCB with r =0,2888; R2 = 0,83 and p Value = 0,001. Therefore, there was a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment with organizational citizenship behavior with r=0,441; R2 = 0,194 and p Value = 0,000. In summary, there was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction with organizational citizenship behavior. There was a positive and significant relationship between organization’s commitment with organizational citizenship behavior. There was a positive and significantrelationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment with organizational citizenship behavior.

Salesperson plays an important role for the survival of the company. The roleof salespeople in the Multi Level Marketing company is a distributor, which will promoteproducts and business plan. Distributor is very important because of the high competition between companies who also want to increase product sales. The key of success in MLM companies depends on how the company is able to improve the performance of distributors.Problem of this research is how the characteristic Distributors, companies support and organization learning affect the performance of MLM distributors. Sampling technique used was purposive sampling method that used as many as 50 people Tianshi distributors in Semarang.The results of data analysis showed that there is significant influence between the characteristic distributors, companies support and Organization Learning to the performance MLM distributor.

This study analyzes the effect of receive, tariffs and quality perceptions of the learning process and service to increase interest. The formulation of the questions examined in this study were 1). What impact will influence the perception of market acceptance for graduates of interest in selecting majors AN? 2). What impact do perceptions influence the rates of interest specified AN AN chose? and 3). What impact will influence the perception of the quality of the learning process and service in the AN of interests to choose majors AN? Furthermore, variables and indicators of research is also based on previous research.A model has been developed and three hypotheses have been formulated to address this research problem. The sampling technique was purposive sampling and quota sampling. Respondents from this study amounted to 100 respondents, where respondents were students of the Department AN Semarang State Polytechnic. Data analysis tool used is Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in AMOS 16.0.The results of this study data analysis shows the model and research results were well received, and further research is proving the influence of perception on the market acceptance of graduates AN interest in the Department of the AN is positive an  significant. Effect of tariff AN Perception of interest in the Department of the AN is not significant. Then the influence of the effectiveness of advertising on consumer buying behavior is positive and significant. And the influence of the learning process and service quality in the AN of interest in the Department is positive and significant.

Supply chain business network that explained as an organization network that involve supplier relationship upstream) and customer downstream). Effectivity of integration on supply will be the key factor for company to reach continuous improvement that make company became competitive.The difference result in applying integration pattern, could be seen at restaurant sector, dept food and beverage (hotel) and fact food restaurant. Theunderlined is that each sector are different in integration factor and the influence to company performance. Based on that problem, the research question is : how the integration pattern characteristic of supply chain and implementation ( direction and level) from each sectors. Sample amount of this research is 31 company that include of 15 restaurant, 10 dept food and beverage hotel and 6 fast food restaurant.Based on the result of regression equation knows that integration pattern supply chain management positively affecting dept food and beverage company performance in Semarang. Variation of variabel company performance that can be explained by variation of integration pattern supply chain management is 69% and the rest 31% affecting by another variable outside variable that used in this research.There is a significance difference between restaurant in Semarang that consist of restaurant, food and beverage division and fastfood restaurant with integration pattern supply chain management and company performance.

Hospital is one of type effort for service that is now stays in very tightening emulation climate. Struggle to create recuring business with customeroccupies central point in the effort hospital to exeed at long-range emulation. Service quality and cutomer value becomes thing which necessary for hospital. This research analysis factors influence customer satisfaction to create hospital service reference enthusiasm in Hospital PKU Muhamadiyah Gubug Kabupaten Grobogan.Research problem is existence of gap or debate at antecedent research would consequence and from customer satisfaction. Other problems is thehappening of downdraft of number of outpatients continually at last four months and existence of improvement of number sighs from patient. Respondent in this research 120 patients with sampling method applies acidental sampling. This research applies analysis Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) what implemented through program AMOS as a means of assists its the analysis.Result of research proves that service quality, cutomer value and excellence of product has positive influence and signifikan to customersatisfaction. Hereinafter, customer satisfaction of influence positive and signifikan to hospital service reference enthusiasm. Excelsior service quality and cutomer value has customer satisfaction of excelsior and causes home service reference enthusiasm which excelsior.