Abstract :
Property and real estate is one of those several sectors that has a good prospect
in this past years. This situation makes property and real estate become a prime
investment target by investors. As the basis for investors? decision making, a financial
statement must be reliable and relevant. Therefore, the quality of an audit is very
important to ensure that financial statement can be trusted by investor, public or other
third parties. The purpose of this study is to find empirical evidence regarding the effect
of audit tenure and public accounting firms size on audit quality.
Samples of this study are listed companies of property and real estate industry in
Indonesia Stock Exchange for the year of 2008-2012, which classified by purposive
sampling method. Independent variables that used on this study are audit tenure
(partner tenure and firm tenure) and public accounting firm size. Proxy of audit quality
as the dependent variable uses earning management which measured by Modified Jones
Model. The analysis model of this study uses multiple linear regression analysis.
The results were as follows : (1) partner tenure significantly affect the audit
quality ; (2) firm tenure does not significantly affect the audit quality ; (3) public
accounting firm size does not significantly affect the audit quality. Keywords: Audit Tenure, Public Accounting Firms Size, Audit Quality.