The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of various factors on the credibility of government financial statements. These factors include: apparatus competence, use of financial information systems, auditor quality, and auditor opinion. The participants in this study consisted of members of the Financial Report Compilation Team and external auditors of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) who examined local government financial reports. A total of 60 respondents were sampled, which were determined using the Purposive Sampling method. This research is a quantitative exploration of primary data. Questionnaires were used to obtain information. Descriptive statistics, normality, multicollinearity and heteroscedasticity tests, multiple regression tests, R-squared and t-test, and F-test were used to test the hypotheses. The results of this study show a positive and significant relationship between the quality of financial statements produced by the Jayapura Regional Government and the factors of Apparatus Competence, Use of Financial Information Systems, Auditor Quality, and Auditor Opinion.
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