who were in charge of the financial and asset sub-
sections, especially those who held positions as
Financial Administration Officers (PPK), were not
supported by accounting education. This condition is
contrary to good management principles that adhere
to the principle of ‘the right man in the right place’.
The Deli Serdang District Government has
utilized a computer-based information system of
regional financial management through financial
applications made by the Financial and
Development Supervisory Agency (SIMK) named
the Information System of Regional Management
(SIMDA) since 2014. By the use of SIMDA
application, every financial management within the
Deli Serdang Regency Government ran quickly in
obtaining data; for instance, how much is the
percentage of fund absorption for each activity in the
Deli Serdang Regional Government from time to
time. The final results of the information system of
regional financial management can be in the forms
required by regional organizational financial
managers (OPD); among others, periodic reports and
annual reports.
At the 2016 examination of Deli Serdang
Regency LKPD by the Supreme Audit Agency of
the Republic of Indonesia (BPK RI) from North
Sumatra representatives, they still found a fixed
asset inventory that was problematic and was not in
accordance with government accounting standards in
the OPD of Education Office, Public Works Agency
and Spatial Planning and Office of Housing and
Settlement Areas. The Head of Accounting
Subdivision of the Regional Financial and Asset
Management Agency of Deli Serdang Regency
mentioned that the findings of the problematic
inventory of assets in the OPD were land under the
road and irrigation of the working area of Deli
Serdang Regency which had not yet been certified
and had poor asset order which means that the asset
records still overlap among the OPDs.
2 RESEARCH METHOD
This research was conducted through a scientific
approach using theoretical structures to construct
one or more hypotheses that require quantitative
testing and statistics. This research examines the
Effect of Quality of Human Resource, Information
System of Regional Financial Management and
Regional Asset Management toward the Quality of
Financial Statement of Regional Staff Organization
(OPD) in Deli Serdang Regency Government. The
authors applied causal research using quantitative
approach. Causal research is conducted to
investigate causal correlation by observing the
consequences that occur and the factors (causes) that
cause the possibility of these consequences. In this
research, the independent variable (cause) is the
variable that affects dependent variable and vice
versa (Sinulingga, 2017).
This research was conducted at the Regional
Staff Organization (OPD) within the Deli Serdang
Regency Government from March 2018 to June
2018. The research population was the Regional
Staff Organization (OPD) within the Deli Serdang
Regency Government which amounted to 54 OPDs.
The research sampling applied the Census Method.
Saturated sampling or census method is a sampling
technique used when all members of the population
are used as samples (Sugiyono, 2004).The research
sampling took all populations as the samples as
many as 54 respondents. The Research Analysis
Unit is the Officials of Financial Administration
(PPK) of OPD in the Deli Serdang Regency
Government, amounted to 54 people.
2.1 Transforming Ordinal Data into Interval
Data using the Method of Successive Interval
(MSI)
(Erlina, 2011) mentioned that parametric statistical
analysis requires at least an interval measuring scale.
Meanwhile, field data is mostly in the form of data
with ordinal measuring scales. Interval data occupies
“higher” level of measurement of data than ordinal
data because in addition to being multilevel, the
sequence can also be quantified. Interval data has
nominal (classification) and ordinal (sequence)
characteristics. The advantage of interval data is that
it can be compared in absolute terms, which is not
owned by ordinal data. However, it does not have an
absolute zero value as in the ratio data. Research,
that uses regression, path analysis, or the similar
things, requires data with the interval scale.
However, most of the data we get through
questionnaires has an ordinal scale. Therefore, to
process it, the data must be increased to the interval
scale first. One method of data conversion that is
often used by researchers to increase the level of
ordinal measurement into intervals is the Method of
Successive Interval (MSI).
2.2 Multiple Regression Analysis
Multiple Regression Testing is carried out by
applying a multiple linear regression equation test.
Multiple linear regression analysis is a linear
correlation between two or more independent
variables (X1, X2, X3, X4, ……Xn) with the