Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
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October 2017. Vol.95. No 20
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THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN RESOURCES COMPETENCY
AND THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE
QUALITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCIAL REPORT
WITH REGIONAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM AS AN
INTERVENING
ISKANDAR MUDA
1
, DENI YUWILIA WARDANI
2
, ERLINA
3
, AZHAR MAKSUM
4
, ADE FATMA
LUBIS
5
, RINA BUKIT
6
& ERWIN ABUBAKAR
7
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Faculty Economics and Business, Accounting Department, Universitas Sumatera Utara,
Indonesia
Corresponding Author :
1
iskandar1@usu.ac.id,
2
dewiyuwilia@usu.ac.id,
3
erlina@usu.ac.id,
4
azhar@usu.ac.id,
5
adefatma@usu.ac.id &
6
erwin1@usu.ac.id
ABSTRACT
This study aims to find out the influence of human resources competency and the use of information
technology on the quality of local government financial report with regional accounting system as an
intervening variable to regional works unit in Labuhanbatu Regency, Indonesia. The sampling technic in
this study is using saturated sampling. There were 108 questionnaires distributed for all the staff members.
The hypothesis was analyzed by using Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the help of SmartPLS
software 2.0 M3. The result of this study is, partially, the human resources competency and the use of
information technology have positive and significant influence towards the Regional Financial Accounting
System (SAKD) in Labuhanbatu Regency, Indonesia.. The Regional Financial Accounting System (SAKD)
mediates the influence of the Human Resources Competency and the use of information technology which
do not have positive and significant influence on the quality of local government financial report of
Labuhanbatu regency. This study recommends that there should be a comprehensive training program to
improve the human resources competency in increasing the quality of local government financial report.
Besides that, the head management should support the implementation of The Regional Financial
Accounting System and Internal Control in order to improve the quality of local government financial
report to be more optimal.
Keywords : The Quality of Local Government Financial Report, Information Technology and the
Regional Financial Accounting System, Regional Works Unit and Utilization.
1. INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, transparentcy and
accountability are the important effort to do to
create good governance and clear governance as
one of the manifestation of reform. "The
transparency as a principle of guaranteeing access
to or freedom for every person to obtain
information about governance, information on the
policy-making and implementation process and
the results achieved" [2, 4, 13, 14, 15 & 23],,
(transparentcy as a principle of guaranteeing
access or freedom for every individual to obtain
the information about governance, information
about the policy process of making and
implementation, also the achieved results).
Whereas, the meaning of the accountability is
“…accountability is accountable for resource
management and policy implementation is
entrusted to the reporting entity in achieving the
goals set periodically [6, 17 & 18].
Accountability is accountable for resource
management and policy implementation which is
entrusted to the reporting entity in achieving the
goal which has been assigned periodically.
To build a good governance, the the first
thing which is very closely related is human
resources competency [16]. The better the quality
of human resources is utilized, the better the
performance results are obtained and it will lead
to the achievement of the goal which has been
assigned by the organization itself. According to
[1, 3, 4 & 18]. To assess the capacity and
competence of human resources in executing a
function including accounting, can be seen from
the level of responsibility and competence of
these resources (To assess the capacity and
human resources competency in running a
function including the accounting, it can be seen