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AbstractThis study aims to provide empirical evidence about the influence of political competition, local independence, level of human development, and Supreme Audit Board (BPK) audit opinion on increasing transparency in local financial management in Indonesia. The research sample consisted of 436 local governments in Indonesia in 2016. The analytical method used to test the hypothesis is multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicate that local independence, level of human development, and BPK audit opinion have been proven to have a positive effect on increasing transparency in local financial management in Indonesia. On the other hand, political competition does not affect increasing transparency in local financial management in Indonesia. The findings contribute as the fundamental idea and recommendation for the government to improve the local financial management transparency in Indonesia. Keywords: Transparency, Local Financial Management, Local Government.

Local governments' financial statements that obtain unqualified opinion until the end of 2011 were still relatively few in number. This study aims to empirically examine the effect on the audit results of the financial statements of local governments in Indonesia of the budgets' proportion, the effectiveness of the internal audit, the follow-up to the Supreme Audit Board's findings, the Supreme Audit Board's opinions from earlier periods, and the competence of the available human resources to understand the audit results of the Supreme Audit Board. Budget management has become very important since it lays out a detailed plan for the expenditure and revenue of the local governments, so that it can be accountable to the public. This study used a sample of 434 Indonesian Local Governments' financial statements of 2011 and a logistic regression analysis. This study used primary and secondary data to uncover the phenomena that the local governments' financial statements which received an unqualified opinion from the Supreme Audit Board were still relatively few in number. The results of this study showed that the budgets' proportions of local governments are negatively significant in affecting the audit results of the financial statements of the local governments. The Supreme Audit Board's opinions from earlier periods positively influenced the audit results of the financial statements of local governments. Whereas the variables of the effectiveness of internal controls, the follow-up to the Supreme Audit Boards' findings, and the competence of the human resources do not significantly influence the audit results of the financial statements of local governments. The results of this study can contribute both theoretically and practically to the quality of the local governments' financial statements. Keywords: budgets' proportion, human resources, competency, opinions, audit quality.

We investigate performance measurement information (PMI) and role stress in local government using a Multivariate Analysis of Variance. We find that role ambiguity for public service managers who receive both non-financial and financial PMI is lower than for those who receive either non-financial information only, or financial information only. Performance is significantly higher when role ambiguity is low. Our results indicate that role ambiguity fully mediates the effects of PMI on performance, but there is no evidence that role conflict mediates those effects. Role ambiguity and role conflict do not mediate the association between job rotation and performance. ; peer-reviewed