| Summary: | This study aims to empirically examine the factors that affect the quality of the
external auditors audit the Indonesian government. The object of this study is the
auditor in Supreme Audit Agency that at least once had a position as Team Leader,
Technical Controller, or a Quality Controller in an audit team. Data were collected
using a questionnaire letter (mail-survey), which is distributed to the Provincial
Legislative Audit Agency spread across the island of Sumatra, Java, and West Nusa
Tenggara Province, amounting to 17 BPK. Of the 170 questionnaires distributed, only
97 were returned (57.06%) and only 74 questionnaires (78.72%) are eligible to be
processed. The data is then analyzed using descriptive statistics, validity and
reliability, as well as multiple regression test to test the hypothesis with the help of
SPSS 19.0. The results of this study indicate that moral reasoning is not empirically
proven to have a positive relationship with audit quality. The other variables such as
independence and professional skepticisms proven empirically positively related to
audit quality. Similarly, with the religiosity which is a new variable that is trying
assessed its association with audit quality. The next study is expected to reexamine
religiosity variable is a new variable, as well as re-testing instrument that audit
quality is a new instrument for measuring the audit quality in the public sector,
particularly the government sector in Indonesia.
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