Guidelines for Village Financial Management. 
Public Accountability is an obligation for agents as 
trustees to account for, present, report and discloses 
all kinds of activities to principals as trustees, where 
principals certainly have the right and authority to 
hold such accountability Mardiasmo (2002) in 
Lestari (2014). 
A good financial management and reporting 
system will support the realization of public 
transparency and accountability in order to produce 
information that is relevant and easily understood by 
stakeholders (Lestari, 2014). With the changes from 
the central government regarding the budget for 
village assistance, the government issued 
Permendagri Regulation No. 113 of 2014 which is 
specifically as a guide for village financial 
management, besides that the regulation also 
controls village financial management, because there 
are still many village governments that are misused 
by funds village assistance for personal gain. 
Research on village financial management 
accounting has been carried out several times, 
including Firmansyah (2014), examining "Financial 
Management in Pulau Lawas Village, Bangkinang 
Sub-District across Kampar Regency in 2012". The 
results of the study showed that village financial 
management in Pulau Lawas Village, Bangkinang 
Seberang District in 2012 was unfavorable due to 
the lack of maximum management of village 
finances due to limited human resource capacity, 
lack of supervision from the BPD and lack of 
community participation and less supportive 
facilities. 
Research on Nisa village funds (2016) on the 
"Phenomenology Study of Accountability for 
Village Fund Management in Tegalan Village, 
Kandat District, Kediri Regency". The results of the 
study said that the understanding of the village 
government regarding planning was to invite society 
representatives in a deliberation program and also 
the community's understanding of planning was to 
attend the invitation to the meeting. Implementation 
is considered as a realization of the plan and the 
absorption of all funds in development for one year. 
With no funds remaining, it is considered that 
village funds have been implemented well. While 
accountability is understood by the village 
government as the submission of the results of the 
activity report to the center through the sub-district 
and the society understands the responsibility in the 
form of completion of development for one year and 
can be enjoyed directly by all levels of society. 
 
 
 
 
 
2 LITERATURE REVIEW 
2.1 Good Governance 
Governance can be interpreted as a way of managing 
public affairs. World Bank (in Mardiasmo, 2002: 23) 
defines governance as "the way state power is used 
in managing economic and social resources for the 
development of society". While the United Nation 
Development Program (UNDP) defines governance 
as "the exercise of political, economic, and 
administrative authority to manage a nation's affair 
at all levels". In this case, the World Bank places 
more emphasis on the way the government manages 
social and economic resources for the benefit of 
social development, while UNDP places more 
emphasis on political, economic and administrative 
aspects in the management of the country. Political 
governance refers to the policymaking process 
(policy/strategy formulation). Economic governance 
refers to the decision making process in the 
economic field which has implications for the 
problem of equity, reducing poverty, and improving 
the quality of life. Administrative governance refers 
to a system of policy implications. 
According to UNDP (in Mardiasmo 2002: 24), 
the characteristics of good governance include: 
a.  Participation, participation is the involvement of 
the society in making decisions both directly and 
indirectly through representative institutions that 
can channel their aspirations. 
b.  Rule of law, a legal framework that is fair and 
carried out indiscriminately. 
c.  Transparency, transparency is built on the basis 
of freedom of information. 
d.  Responsiveness, public institutions must be fast 
and responsive in serving stakeholders. 
e.  Consensus orientation, oriented to the interests of 
the wider society. 
f.  Equity, every society has the same opportunity to 
obtain prosperity and justice. 
g.  Efficiency and Effectiveness, management of 
public resources is carried out in an efficient 
(efficient) and effective (effective). 
h.  Accountability, accountability to the public for 
every activity carried out. 
i.  Strategic vision, government organizers and the 
public must have a far-reaching vision. 
Of the nine characteristics, there are at least three 
things that can be played by public sector 
accounting, namely the creation of transparency, 
public accountability, and the value of money 
(economy, efficiency, and effectiveness).