Determinan Audit Delay dan Timeliness

Abstract

Timeliness of drafting or reporting an audit report on the company's financial statements could affect the value of such financial statements. If financial statement information is not delivered in a timely manner, thus it is not relevant which could reduce or eliminate the ability of the financial statements as a prediction tool for users or decision makers. Audit delay is the length of time the audit completion is measured from the date of closing of the financial year until the date of completion of the independent audit report. This study aims to analyze the effect of the companysize, solvency and profitability towards audit delay and  timeliness. The populatin of this research was manufacturing companies listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange at 2011-2013, based on purposive sampling 25 companies used as sample. The analysis technique used is multiple regression analysis. The results show that the size of the company, solvency, and profitability simultaneously and partially affect audit delay and timeliness. The most contributed variable towards audit delay is profitability, while most contributed variable towasds the timeliness is the company size.