Abstract:

This study aims to analyze the effect of institutional ownership and audit committee on audit quality with financial difficulties as a moderation. This research was conducted on Manufacturing Companies in the Consumer and Industrial Goods Sector Listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2016-2020. The quantitative research method uses secondary data, namely the company's annual report that is the object of research. Analysis of the data used is logistic regression analysis. The results show that the direction of the influence of the institutional ownership variable on audit quality is positive, where institutional ownership has a significant effect on audit quality. Likewise, the direction of the impact of the audit committee on audit quality is positive but does not significantly affect audit quality. The results of the moderation show that Financial Distress can moderate institutional ownership in influencing audit quality. In contrast, after being moderated with the financial distress variable, the audit committee has a negative and significant direction, which means it can moderate the audit committee in influencing audit quality but in the opposite direction.