KONFRENSI REGIONAL AKUNTANSI III 2016 JEMBER RAYA
Current issues in accounting research and it’s metodhology
Hamidah
hamidah_unair@yahoo.com
FEB Universitas Airlangga Konferensi Regional Akuntansi III Jember
Top five accademic accounting journal
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Accounting, Organizations and Society
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Contemporary Accounting Research
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Journal of Accounting and Economics
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Journal of Accounting Research
6 critical issues
(He Qiong, Du Jianjun,2011):
• The first critical issue is the corporate governance,
• The second issue is accounting system and internal control systems. • The third critical issue emphasizes the accounting measurement
and estimations, and the outcome of accounting works: financial reports and their quality.
• The fourth topic targets internal and external auditing, and related mechanics of monitoring on accounting function.
• The fifth topic is the relationship between accounting and other disciplines,
• The sixth critical topic is the accounting internationalization and
Our focus is on IAH
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The last topic identified is accounting
internationalization or convergence, which
Overall topic of IAH
(international accounting harmonization):
• Perbandingan praktik akuntansi internasional; • Praktik akuntansi dan ekologi akuntansinya; • Perbedaan dalam pilihan kebijakan akuntansi
• Implementasi IFRS pada masing masing negara yg berbeda • Conceptual framework
• the possibility and the necessity of establishing international
accounting standards;
• IASC/IASB- sejarah, pendanaan, kekuasaan, politic;
Critical Perspectives on Accounting and IAH research oportunities:
– Studies involving the political economy of accounting,
critical accounting, radical accounting, and accounting's implication in the exercise of power
– The relationship between accounting and the state in
various Social formations
– Studies of accounting's historical role as a means of
"remembering" the subject's social and conflictual character
– The role of accounting in establishing "real" Democracy at
Accounting's adjudicative function in international
exchanges, such as that of the Third World debt
• Antagonisms between the social and private
character of accounting,
• Accounting's involvement in Gender and class
conflicts
Sejak tanggal 1 Januari 2005 IAH memasuki tahap
baru dan menentukan.
Timeline of important event in IAH:
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1965 - First IAH research
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1973 – creation of IASC
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1989 – IASC Framework
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1995 – IASC/IOSCO agreement
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2001 – creation of the IASB
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2005 – IFRS effective in EU
Period of research in IAH
• IAH research during the Initial Period: 1965–1973
• IAH research during the Intermediate Period: 1974–1989 • IAH research during the Mature Period: 1990–2004
Initial period 1965-1973
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Beberapa research mengenai wacana accounting
uniformity:
– Wilkinson, T. L. (1965). United States accounting as viewed by accountants
of other countries. The International Journal of Accounting, 1(1), 3–14.
– Morgan, R. A. (1967). The multinational enterprise and its accounting
needs. The International Journal of Accounting, 3(1), 21–28.
– Savoie, L. M. (1969). International dimensions of accounting. The
International Journal of Accounting, 5(1), 79–99.
• Meskipun beberapa peneliti memulai fokus risetnya pada accounting
uniformity. Namun beberapa penulis juga meneliti mengenai perbedaan dalam praktik akuntansi keuangan. Khususnya diantara negara industri maju ( Kollaritsch, 1965; Davidson and Kohlmeier, 1966; Hatfield, 1966).
• Beberapa peneliti mengkaitkan perbedaan ini dikaranakan perbedaan
faktor lingkungan antara lain yaitu budaya dan sistem ekonomi (Choi,
Research methods:
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Jumlah IAH research pada periode tersebut
sebanyak 21.
• 18 artikel dilakukan dengan metode kualitatif
descriptive
Intermediate Period: 1974–1989
• Beberapa tema baru dalam IAH:
– a focus on the creation of a Conceptual Framework for international accounting
standards-setting as a means of fostering greater international harmonization;
– investigations of Factors of the Environment as a way to explain differences
accounting practices;
– discussions about the IASC as a way of enhancing the IAH process;
– studies of the harmonizing effects of the Accounting Directives issued by the
European Union.
• Bahwa riset yang dilakukan merupakan cikal bakal global accounting standar.
Artinya sebagai akademisi kita harus terus melakukan riset dengan topik-topik yang sekiranya dianggap mendukung VISI kita, misalnya kita berkeinginan
Research methods in intermediade period:
• Jumlah IAH research pada periode tersebut sebanyak 46
artikel, meningkat dari periode sebelumnya 21.
• 32 (70%) artikel dilakukan dengan metode kualitatif descriptive
• 14 (30%) dilakukan dengan metode kuantitatif empiris
• Artinya kita harus terbuka menerima multiparadigma dalam
Mature Period: 1990–2004
• Beberapa faktor lain mulai dipertimbangkan dalam
penelitian.
– Keragaman praktik akuntansi tidak hanya disebabkan budaya dan
ekonomi, namun juga termasuk:
• sejarah perkembangan ekonomi suatu bangsa dan pasar modal; • perbedaan sistem hukum;
• perbedaan dalam nature of property rights;
• ukuran dan kompleksitas perusahaan dalam suatu negara; • Iklim sosial ;
Accounting and culture
• Tay and Parker (1990), Baydoun and Willett (1995) and
Hussein (1996) analyzed the accounting practices of
industrialized countries based on cultural factors using the Hofstede framework.
• Riahi-Belkaoui and Picur (1991) also found that cultural
Accounting and politic
• Luther (1996) maintained that political factors were the
primary reason for differences in accounting practices among countries. Political influences on accounting standards-setting is therefore inevitable.
• Consequently, accounting standards setting can be seen as a
political process where the point of view of the most powerful often prevails.
Research in this area suggests that there has been
domination of the IAH process by the major English
• Chandler (1992) examined the connections between IASC and IOSCO from a political perspective.
• Ahadiat and Stewart (1992) looked at the relationships between the SEC, the European Union and the IASC.
• these studies emphasized the influence of American institutions such as the SEC and the FASB on international accounting
standards-setting.
New theme: Impact of harmonized accounting
practices on share prices and returns
• As capital markets have become increasingly globalized there
has been a perceived need
• for more relevant and reliable accounting information in the
• Amir et al. (1993) studied the value relevance of accounting
numbers measured in accordance with U.S. and non-U.S. GAAP
• Pope and Rees (1993) investigated the information content of
Research methods in mature period:
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Jumlah IAH research pada periode tersebut
sebanya 135 artikel =
New theme: Implementation of IAS/IFRS in
different countries
• Glaum (2000) investigated the evolution of German companies' attitudes
towards inancial reporting standards over a period of three years (1994– 1997)
• Kikuya (2001) discussed the participation of Japan in IAS/IFRS after 1990.
• Hamidah (2015)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815053562
• Search from science Direct dengan kata kunci “IFRS” ditemukan 1290
artikel yg tersebar sejak 1995 sd 2016
• Apabila dipersempit dengan kata “IFRS adoption” = 890
Abstract
The study aims to uncover the actor and political interests behind the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) in Indonesia. Using the accounting ecology framework
developed by Gernon and Wallace (1995), this study examines the reason of why Indonesia adopts IFRS. The study finds that the adoption of IFRS in Indonesia is driven by international
interests. Indonesia's membership in IFAC, IOSCO, and the G-20 has resulted in Indonesia approved the use of global accounting standards.
• Keywords:IFRS, Adoption, Accounting Ecology, Case Study,
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