Abstract :
The population in this study is consist of listed go public firm mining in
Indonesia Stock Exchange in year 2014-2018 with total sample is 141. The aim
of knowing the effect of audit delay, audit tenure and audit quality on asymmetry
information. This research was conducted using quantitative methods, while audit
delay was measured using the difference between the date the audit report was
issued and the closing date of the company book, audited tenure by using the
company's audit audit year with KAP, audit quality measured using Discretionary
Accrual and information asymmetry using bid-ask spread.
The results showed that audit delay had no effect on information
asymmetry, but a significant effect on audit quality and audit tenure had a
significant effect on information asymmetry and audit quality. In addition, audit
delay does not affect information asymmetry through audit quality as intervening,
but audit tenure has a significant effect on information asymmetry through audit
quality as an intervening variable.
Keywords: audit delay, audit tenure, audit quality, assymetric information