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The governement institutions of the Republic of Indonesia are until currently still faced with a problem of the quality of accounting information system. That is reflected by the weakness of quality of the financial statements of: central governments, the ministries and public institutions and the regionals. In the time period of 2004-2010, results of audit on the financial statements of central government’s, most of ministries and state agencies, and regional government still have a qualified opinion categories (Warta BPK, 2010). Gamawan Fauzi (2012) said, a target of 50% of the regional governments to attain the unqualified opinion categories in 2014 is hard to realize. The problem of low quality of the government financial statements, as a reflection of the poor quality of the accounting information system, is due to among others the weakness of internal controlling system (Warta BPK, 2011).
The objective of accounting information systems is to provide the reliable accounting information on a timely basis (Guan, 2006). An internal control system is a series of procedures designed such that provide management with reasonable assurance that the accounting information that provide by an accounting information system presents is reliable and made available timely (Guan, 2006). An accounting information system and record keeping will not success in completely and accurately processing all transaction unless controls, known as internal control, are built into the system (Millchamp & Taylor, 2008). The purpose of this study is to develop a model to find out evidences or answers of the following problems: (1) how extent of which the effect of an internal control system on the quality of AIS, (2) how extent of which the effect of an internal control system on the quality of accounting information, and (3) how extent of which the effect of the quality of accounting information systems quality on the Accounting Information quality .
2. Review of Literature
2.1. Accounting Information Quality
The value of information is directly linked to how it helps decision makers achieve their organization’s goals. Valuable information can help people and their organizations perform their tasks more efficiently and effectively (Stair and Reynolds, 2012). Furthermore, information of high quality, that is, information product whose characteristics, attributes, or qualities help makes it valuable to them (O Briens, 2004). The quality of accounting information can be explained by several dimensions. Hall (2011) suggests that the dimensions of information quality consist of: relevance, timeliness, accuracy, completeness, and summarizing. Moreover, Gelinas et al (2012) and McLeod (2007) put forward that dimensions of the quality of information are: accurate, timely, relevance, and completeness. Far earlier, Hicks (1993) states relevance, timeliness, accuracy and verifiability as the criteria of information quality. Whereas Maurice (1994) and O’ Briens & Marakas (2010) summarizes the important of information and groups them into three dimensions, namely: time (consist of: timeliness, currency, frequency, time period); content (accuracy, relevance, completeness, conciseness, scope, performance); and form (clarity, detail, order, presentation, media) In this study, the dimensions of accounting information quality are: (1) Relevancy. The Extent to which data is applicable and helpul for the task at hand (Wang & Strong, 1996), the contents of a report or document must serve a purpose (Hall, 2011). (2) Accuracy. The Information must be free from material errors (Hall, 2011). (3) Verifiability, the ability of confirm the accuracy of information by tracing information to its original source (Hicks, 1993)
2.2. Accounting Information System Quality
Accounting information system is a collection of data and processing procedures that creates needed informationfor its users (Bagranof et al, 2011). Accounting information systems (AISs) is a collection of resources, such as people and equipment, designed to transform financial and other data into information. This information is communicated to a wide variety of decision makers. AISs perform this transformation whether they are essentially manual systems or thoroughly computerized (Bodnar & Hopwood, 2010). According to Stair & Reynolds (2010), an accounting information systems quality is usually flexible, efficient, accessible, and timely. Seddon (1997) state that an information system success thus conceptualized as a value judgment made by an one from stakeholders’ viewpoints. Moreover, Gelinas & Wriggins (1990) suggest that the effectiveness of an accounting information systems is a measures of accounting info
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