Benefits of Research INTRODUCTION
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give the opportunity to the manager to do earning management, so that it will mislead shareholders about the companys economic performance.
Corporate governance is a concept based on agency theory that is expected to serve as a tool to provide assurance to investors that they will
receive a return on the funds they had invested. Corporate governance is closely related to how to make the investors believe that managers will
give benefit to them, by believing in that the manager will not misuse the invested fund to the illegal projects. Besides that, corporate governance
also relates to how the investors control the managers Siallagan and Machfoedz, 2006.
Special authority in every region in Indonesia in implementing corporate governance is based on Law no. 5 of 1974 on the
Principles of Governance in the Region, as well as explaining the relationship between central and local government. After the
implementation of policies to implement regional autonomy in Indonesia through Law no. 22 of 1999 as amended by Law no. 32 of 2004
on Regional Government has change a paradigm and a very basic structure, especially the local government relations Executive with the
Regional Representatives
CouncilDPRD Legislative.
In this
relationship, the Legislative delegates authority to run the government to the executive.
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Agency problems that arise among executives tend to maximize utility self- interest in the creating or composing the local budget,
because they have the advantage of information information asymmetry. As a result, executives tend to do budgetary slack. This happens due to
the executive try to secure its position in the government in the point of view of legislative and the public people, even for the sake of the next
election, but budgetary slack of APBD is more for personal interest among executives self-interest rather than for the benefit of society.
Latifah, 2010.