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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

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.

One of the important role of Management Accounting Information System (MAS) is to provide information to the right people, the right way at the right time to improve management capabilities in understanding the circumstances around it, so it was able to identify the relevant activities appropriately. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the role of MAS as variables that mediate the effect of information technology and interdependence on performance managerial of employees inthe local government enterprises are rural banks and financial institutions sub-Central Java (PD BPR BKK). The samples in this study were obtained according to the purposive sampling technique based on criteria derived from population consisting of employees or the manager at PD BPR BKK contained in Central Java. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) in a of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Role of characteristics of MAS as variable which mediate the effect of information technology and interdependence on managerial performance examined using Sobel Test. The results of this study indicate that information technology has an indirect positive effect and significant impact on managerial performance through MAS. Interdependence also has an indirect positive effect and significant impact on managerial performance through MAS. It can be concluded that the MAS has a role as a mediating influence between the variables information technology and interdependence on managerial performance.Keywords: management accounting information system, information technology, interdependence, mediating, managerial performance.

Public accountant has an important role to the business. Their opinion through audit statement has been used by stakeholder of the company to make economic decision. Audit statement expected to improve the quality and credibility of the financial statement released by management. But after Enron scandal that involved auditor of Arthur Andersen, one of the biggest public accountant firm in the world, professionalism of auditor was questioned. Implication of the scandal, America released Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, while Indonesia has released UU No. 5 in 2011 to regulate public accountant profession, that can increase professionalism of public accountant at the same time protects public accountant and public interest. Key words:   public accountant, UU No. 5 tahun 2011, professionalism, Enron scandal, financial statement, and audit statement.