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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.

Entrepeneurship orientation has been acknowledged in literature andpractice as a vital element of economic and organizational growth, successand competitiveness and can be considered as a unique competitiveadvantage.The purpose of the paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the conceptof entrepeneurship orientation. Concluding, the paper suggests directions forfuture research.

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 purpose of this study was to analyze the magnitude of the influence ofperceived feasibility, perceived desirability, and propensity to acttoentrepreneurial intention. The data in this study were obtained from studentat STIE Totalwin Semarang. Results and the theoretical implications ofthis research is that this study supports previous research that says that theperceived feasibility, perceived desirability, and propensity to act affect toentrepreneurial intention.

Nowadays people’s knowledge is getting bigger, so itmakesthe marketers have to develop their promotiontechnique becomes better for getting the increase numberof the consumers. At first, guerrilla marketing is used bysmall business because it need not a big fund but it is ableto produce a lot of products. In real life, to do a guerrillamarketing strategy needs higher cost. Otherwise, thereare a lot of big companies which is used guerrillamarketing strategy. When doing guerrilla, especially thesmall enterprises they have to think about the resource sothat the enterprise can get the value of consumer that theywant matched with the cost.

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.

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.

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.

This study will analyze the differences in ethical sensitivity of students in Semarang. The goal is to determine differences in the activity and behavior of the students. The population in this study were students of accounting and management at private universities in Semarang. In this study the researchers used the criteria to get closer to the subject matter. The criteria used in this study were students who were third semester to semester end. Results of this study indicate that there is no difference between unethical behavior and student management accounting students. There is no difference between unethical behavior male and female accounting students. Students are more tolerant of unethical behavior will be more cynical.Keywords: Ethical Sensitivity, cynical attitude.

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

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.

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

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pengaruh current current ratio (CR), debt ratio (DR), total asset turnover (TATR), return on asset (ROA) and return on equity (ROE)terhadap probabilitas kebangkrutan. Tipe penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kausal, yaitu penelitian yang dilakukan untuk menemukan hubungan sebab akibat yang defenitif atau menemukan penyebab dari satu atau lebih masalah. Obyek dalam penelitian ini adalah perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar pada BursaEfek Indonesia. Pengkajian obyek penelitian adalah laporan keuangan perusahaan manufaktur selama tahun 2008 – 2012. Hasil penelitian diperoleh: Current Ratio, Total Asset Turnover Ratio, tidak dapat memprediksi terjadinya probability kebangkrutan pada perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia. Sedangkan Debt Ratio, Return On Asset dan Return On Equity dapat memprediksi terjadinya probabilitas kebangkrutan pada perusahaan manufaktur yang terdaftar di Bursa EfekIndonesia.Kata kunci: current ratio, debt ratio, total asset turn over ratio, return on asset, return on equity, dan probabilitas kebangkrutan.

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.

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.

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.

This research aims to clarify how the implementation of social audits in Corporate Social Responsibility. Object of research is at PT Apac Inti Corpora Bawen Semarang. The data were collected by interview and documentation techniques. The results showed that social audit is a part of the company's strategy phases to be done. Social audit conducted in the form of obtaining such certification  ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and PROPER Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup. Social audit was conducted by stakeholders outside the company, it is important to assess whether the activities carried out by the company has been in the interest of all stakeholders. Key words: Social Audit, Corporate Social Responsibility

The aims of this research was to prove the influence of  size company, profitability, leverage, institutional ownership toward the income smoothing. Income smoothing is practice used by managers of a company to reduce the fluctuation of the reported income to achieve the target income either artificial or naturally. Index Eckel (1981) was used to determine the income smoothing. This research was carried out by using 12 food and beverages companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during 4 years period from 2005 until 2008. The hypotheseses were tested using binary logistic regression. The result’s shows that the size of company was significant influence to income smoothing. The influence of profitability, leverage, institutional ownership was not significant. Key words: the size of company, profitability, leverage, institutional ownership, income smoothing

This article will discuss about the new Bank Indonesia Regulation Number 13/28/DPPNP. This regulation contains about Anti-Fraud policy that to be set for commercial banks in Indonesia. The discussion includes a discussion of the rules related to the strategies that will be applied to the implementation of the Regulation of Bank Indonesia as well as examples of the application of Anti-Fraud policy that existing in other countries to be used as comparative data. The purpose of this article is to provide a better understanding of this rule, so in this article will more talking about the form of exposure rule and its other issues related to this topic. Key words: Anti Fraud Policy