Marja Sinurat 1 Implementasi Standar Akuntansi Pemerintahan (SAP) Berbasis Akrual Pada Pemerintah Daerah IMPLEMENTASI STANDAR AKUNTANSI PEMERINTAHAN (SAP) BERBASIS AKRUAL PADA PEMERINTAH DAERAH Dr. Marja Sinurat, M.Pd.,MM1 Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri (IPDN) dr.marjasinurat@yahoo.com ABSTRACT This paper explained that the accrual base in local government financial accounting standart will increasing the accuration, transparation, and usefulness of financial information, such as financial cost services information wich provided by local government. Accrual-Based is the government accounting standart wich recognized the revenue, expenses, assets, debt, and equity in the accrual based financial reporting, as well as to recognize the income, expenditure, and financing in the reporting of budget execution on the basis set out in APBN /APBD. Applying the accrual base in the local government is not easy, therefore it must be disigned carefully because it has some implications that can not be avoided, for example in budgeting, total implementation approach is necessary to be done if government didn’t want to lose the momentum of revolution in cash base to accrual base. Keyword: accounting standart, accrual base, cash base 1 Penulis adalah Dosen Pada Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri