Abstract
The aim of this research is to determine the influence of Financial Distress, Company Operational Complexity and Auditor Swithing on Audit Report Lag with Company Size as a moderating variable. The method used in this research is associative quantitative, using secondary data. The population of this research is food and beverage companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2018-2022 period, namely 72 companies. With the research sample method using purposive sampling with six sample criteria, the total sample used was 19 companies so that the observations amounted to 95 data. Data analysis in this research uses descriptive statistical analysis, panel data regression model estimation, classical assumption testing, hypothesis testing and Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) using eviews 10. The results of this research are that Financial Distress has an effect on Audit Report Lag, the complexity of company operations has no effect. on the Audit Report Lag, Auditor Swithing cannot influence the Audit Report Lag. And for the moderating variable, company size can only strengthen the relationship between company operational complexity and Audit Report Lag, while company size weakens the relationship between Financial Distress and Audit Report Lag, and company size weakens the relationship between Auditor Swithing and Audit Report Lag
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