74 | The Effect of Professional Skepticism, Experience of Investigative Auditors and
Whistleblowing System on Auditor's Ability in Detecting Fraud
whistleblowing system is also very effective
in revealing corruption and fraud that
occurred. Whistleblowing system is an
application to report violations, which can
support the implementation of forensic
audits and investigative audits. As for
someone who notifies the public or officials
in power about alleged dishonesty, illegal
activities or mistakes that occur in
government, public or private
organizations, is called a whistleblower
(Rahmida & Urumsah, 2020).
(Sayyid, 2015) states that forensic
accounting is the use of accounting
expertise combined with investigative
abilities to make financial statements or
allegations and then an investigative audit
is defined as an effort to prove an error in a
series of relationships in a fraud
examination. Thus accounting and
investigation are a series of relationships in
fraud examination.
Based on the description above, many
researches in the field of auditing have
been carried out, highlighting the
importance of the influence of professional
skepticism and investigative experience on
audit examinations, but some are still
inconsistent. The results of research
conducted by (Permana & Eftarina, 2020),
(Nugroho, 2018), (Rifoaffa & Zaldin, 2020),
and (Yusuf Aulia, 2013) that professional
skepticism has a positive effect on the
auditor's ability to detect fraud, where the
higher the level of professional skepticism
of the auditor, the higher the detection
effort. fraud.
As for research conducted by
(Agusyani et al., 2016) at the Regional
Revenue Service of Buleleng Regency, it
shows that partially there is a significant
influence between the whistleblowing
system and the competence of human
resources on fraud prevention. Research
conducted by (Utami et al., 2019) shows
that the whistleblowing system strengthens
the influence of the audit committee and
internal audit to uncover fraud cases.
Attribution theory is used to examine
the perspective of the factors that influence
fraud detection (Sari et al., 2018) . KAP and
agencies that have internal audits were
selected as objects because these KAPs and
agencies are entities that provide services
to detect fraud in a company. The object of
the research is the Auditor who works at
KAP DKI Jakarta and the Company Tbk.
Through this paper, combining and
applying the attitudes possessed by
forensic auditors, combined with the
experience of auditors supported by the
existing whistleblowing system and law
enforcement, the researcher believes that
some of these things are effective
components of fraud detection. Thus, the
authors are interested in the title "The Effect
of Professional Skepticism, Whistleblowing
System And Investigative Audit Experience
On Auditor Ability In Detecting Fraud".
METHODS
This type of research is a quantitative
research with a Hypothesis Testing model.
The population in this study are internal
and private auditors (KAP). The research
sample consisted of 56 samples consisting
of 17 internal auditors and 39 auditors from
public accounting firms. Data was collected
using a questionnaire method which was
distributed to respondents according to
the sampling target described previously.