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5. Previous Year Audit Opinion Towards Going Concern Audit
Opinion
Mutchler 1984 states that the company which receiving going concern audit opinion on the previous year were more likely to receive
the same opinion in the current year. This is because when the auditors give going concern audit opinion on the previous year, the
company is is considered have problems in going concern so that auditors tend to give a going concern audit opinion back in the current
year. Based on the empirical evidence, there is a significant positive correlation between going concern opinion previous years with going
concern audit opinion for the year. If in previous years the auditor has issued a going concern audit opinion, the auditor will be more likely to
re-issue going concern audit opinion on the current year. H
05
: The previous years audit opinion does not effect on going concern audit opinion.
H
a5
: The previous years audit opinion effect on going concern audit opinion.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Scope of Research
Based on the Characteristics of the issues discussed by authors, the design of this research is causality, which is mean type of research is the
characteristics of the problem in the form of a causal relationship between two or more Indriantoro dan Supomo, 2009: 27. This research aims to
examine the influence of the independent variables, such as corporate governance mechanisms, leverage, and the previous years audit opinion
on the dependent variable, going concern audit opinion. The population in this research are all companies engaged in the
real estate sector and the property listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange BEI in the period 2013 - 2015. The sampling method used was purposive
sampling or sampling method aims to establish certain criteria of the research sample.
B. Method of Sampling
The population in this research are all enterprise real estate and property sector listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange during period 2013-
20015. The sampling method used is purposive sampling. Purposive sampling method is sampling based on the criteria that have been
formulated in advance by researchers Siagian and Sugiarto: 2002 in