Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuktikan secara empiris mengenai hubungan antara karakteristik komite audit yaitu gender, pengalaman terdahulu, keahlian keuangan, ukuran, dan tingkat kerajinan dengan ketepatan waktu laporan keuangan auditan. Penelitian ini menggunakan sampel perusahaan publik di Indonesia kecuali industri keuangan selama periode 2014-2017. Hasil dari penelitian ini membuktikan adanya hubungan signifikan positif antara komposisi gender komite audit dan keahlian keuangan komite audit terhadap audit report lag. Serta hubungan signifikan negatif tingkat kerajinan komite audit terhadap audit report lag. Karakteristik pengalaman terdahulu dan ukuran komite audit menunjukan hasil tidak adanya hubungan signifikan dengan audit report lag.
This research aims to know the relation between audit committee characteristics which are gender, experience, financial expertise, size, and diligence on the timeliness of audited financial statement. This research uses samples of public firms listed in Indonesian Stock Echange excluding financial industry for the year 2014-2017. The results of this study prove that theres a significance positive relation between the gender composition of the audit committee and the financial expertise of the audit committee on audit report lag. Also theres a significance negative relation between level of diligence of audit committee on audit report lag. Prior experience of audit committee and size of audit committee show the result of no significant relationship on audit report lag |