In March 2020 there was a pandemic which resulted in many sectors experiencing
losses. Merdeka.com publishes that there will be six sectors that will be affected if a
pandemic occurs in Indonesia. The six sectors in question are Tourism, Manufacturing,
Economics, Transportation, Social Affairs, and Food. With this impact, the Indonesia Stock
Exchange (IDX) provides relief regarding the fulfillment of obligations and service support
for listed companies. The extension was given as a follow-up to the issuance of the Letter
of the Head of the Capital Market Supervision Department of the Financial Services
Authority (OJK) Number: S-45/PM.22/2020 dated March 19, 2020 regarding the
relaxation of regulations, regarding the obligation to submit reports by listed companies
as an effort to mitigate the impact caused by the Covid-19 emergency in Indonesia. The
relief has been in effect since March 20, 2020 through the Decree of the Board of Directors
of the Indonesia Stock Exchange No. Kep-00027/BEI/03-2020 dated March 20, 2020
regarding the Relaxation of the Deadline for Submission of Financial Statements and
Annual Reports which provides an extension of the deadline for submitting annual
financial reports and reports on the evaluation results of the audit committee for issuers
and companies that go public, given an extension of two months from the expiration
date.
With the relaxation of the deadline for submitting financial statements, it is hoped
that the company can submit its financial statements on time or even before the specified
deadline. In fact, there are still many companies that have not submitted their financial
statements. The 2019 IDX financial report states that there are 30 issuers with a book
closing period of 31 December 2019 which have not submitted financial reports by the
specified deadline or on 30 July 2020 as determined by the IDX. If the company obeys
the law, the company will have good quality financial reports Setiyawati, H., Hidayah, N.,
Rahmatika, Dien, N., & Indarsih (2020).
There are many possibilities that affect the delay in the submission of audited
financial statements. One of the possible delays is the attention to going concern
experienced by the issuer. This is indicated by the number of companies affected by the
restrictions. Angraini (2021) shows that going concern opinion has a significant effect on
audit report lag, while Febrianti & Sudarno (2020) shows the opposite where going
concern audit opinion has no significant effect on audit report lag.
Another possible cause of delays is the tax incentive decision issued by the Minister
of Finance through the Directorate General of Taxes with PMK No 23/PMK.03/2020 dated
March 21, 2020 which will provide tax changes due to these incentives, even though it
can be overcome with the long-term relief time. From one of the phenomena above, there
may be other things that cause delays in completing the audit.
The Indonesia Stock Exchange launched the division of new sectors on January
25, 2021 through decree Number Peng-00012/BEI.POP/01-2021. The division of the