INTEGRATING PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT TO SUPPORT QUALITY FINANCIAL REPORTING

Abstract

The worldwide patterns in embracing a newly administration rehearses, has reformed the public accounting practices. Consequently, the utilisation of accrual-based accounting framework to improve the nature of financial announcing data and upgrade public area responsibility and straightforwardness has become the mantra in the organisation. Nevertheless, the presentation of another bookkeeping framework is not a simple and straightforward cycle. There is a considerable discrepancy between changes to the idea of formal bookkeeping practices and its final turn of events and usage. In that capacity, this investigation examines the preparation of the Indonesian public area towards the selection of accrual accounting as a component of the reformation change endeavours by investigating readiness in human resources and technology and how it impacts financial report. Structural Equation Modelling was employed to examine the relationships among constructs in samples of 200 government employees in South Kalimantan Indonesia. The findings uncover that few activities were taken to help the appropriation of the new framework. Nonetheless, it is evident that the introduction of accrual accounting keeps on confronting difficulties and significant insufficiencies including an absence of expert public sector accountants particularly at the nearby government level, proceeded with the usage of cash-based budgeting along with non-aligning information technology systems. Henceforth, these issues should be routed to guarantee public sector readiness towards actualising new model of accounting practice.