从女留学生到株式会社社长——记日本茉莉公司社长吴晓文

日本东京电视台有一个最大的购物专门频道,一年365天,每天24小时以对话的形式现场直播.能够登上这个频道的都是来自美国、法国、意大利、德国、韩国等,世界各地有名的产品,包括家用电器、服装、皮鞋、化妆品、首饰等应有尽有.     

“千面骗子”：诈骗了26个国家的银行

(一) 1948年,哈巴诺尔出生于美国纽约一个贫困的家庭,一家三口全靠父亲经营的一间小文具店糊口. 1964年,16岁的哈巴诺尔经历了他人生中一次重大的转折.这一年,他的父母离婚了.而哈巴诺尔不想在父母各自组成的新家庭中生活,于是他愤然地离家出走了.哈巴诺尔独自租住在一家简陋的旅店中,父亲在银行中专门给他开设了一个支票帐户,每月给他200美元的生活费.     

道德究竟离我们有多远

近来,网上流传一则"十大著名荒唐禁令"的文章:譬如"严禁用公款打麻将"出现在2004年陕西省安康市建设局的红头文件里;譬如"中小学教师严禁奸污猥亵女生"的条款出现在湖南省益阳赫山区和资阳区两个教育局颁发的<教师准则>里……2006年11月2日<长沙晚报>报道,湖南省公安厅严查民警买卖使用赃车,要求各市州严厉查处民警违法违规买卖使用汽车问题.     

建设民心工程的思考

一、不要总是"户户式" 曾几何时,一些地方办事往往热衷于搞户户模式.比如:户户养几头猪,户户栽几棵果树,户户养多少鸡、鸭、鱼、长毛兔、菜鹅,户户育多少蘑菇,户户种多少中药材……户户养鱼,结果家家户户把房前屋后平平整整的良田挖得坑坑凹凹;户户栽几棵果树,也只是方便农家小孩一些水果消费,形不成商品.而且,即使户户都种起来、养起来了,真的形成规模了,又由于缺乏流通和加工的龙头企业,往往有好种没好收,致使药材当烧草,长毛兔放进麦田,青椒倒下河畈,食用菌、日本大萝卜装到县政府大院的现象时有发生.     

我国金融业竞技北京奥运

北京奥运带来银行业新契机 对中国金融行业来说,2008年北京奥运会,将在短短的时间内,迎来众多的客户,如何应对和改善北京、天津、上海、青岛、沈阳、秦皇岛等奥运城市的金融行业服务水平,尤其是银行卡受理服务水平,成为当地金融行业和商业服务需要应对的新课题.     

三篇文章赚来一辆高档轿车

一个亲历故事让诗人成了纪实特稿写手 李作明1966年10月生于辽宁建平县农村,1988年毕业于辽宁朝阳第一师范学校.读书期间任学校诗社社长,在《诗刊》、《星星诗刊》、《青年文学》、《诗选刊》等刊物发表诗歌、散文200多篇,曾与马萧萧、洪烛、邱华栋等被誉为"全国中学生十大校园诗人之一".师范毕业后在农村任教一年,后被调县教委、文联、宣传部.1992年应聘《辽宁青年报》记者后被调入沈阳.之后又先后调往《辽宁职工报》、辽宁有线电视台做新闻记者.     

激情 真情 痴情——记人保财险唐山路北支公司经理王婧

在河北,在唐山人保系统,一提起王婧,不论是熟识还是与她只有一面之交的人,都对她一连串闪耀着的"星光"所称道.仅35岁的她,已连续两届获得"全国保险之星",也曾获得"中国人保百名展业明星"、省人保系统优秀共产党员、 "双文明"建设先进个人、巾帼展业明星等诸多荣誉称号.初识王婧,感觉她完全是一个普普通通的人保女员工.但多次接触过后才发现,在那普通而又平凡的背后,却有着诸多的不平凡.     

商业银行在群众获取财产性收入过程中的作用

党的十七大报告中提出"创造条件让更多群众拥有财产性收入",首次明确了财产性收入成为国民财富增长的重要来源。所谓财产性收入是指"金融资产和有形非生产资产的所有者向其他机构单位提供资金,或将有形非生产资产供给他们支配,作为回报,从中获得的收入。它的主要     

风险厌恶型的中年人理财方案

家庭状况 陈先生 43岁,某国企部门经理,税后年收入10万元左右 陈太太 35岁,某单位职工,税后年收入3万元 儿子 3岁,上幼儿园 陈先生有养老保险,而陈太太没有.目前家庭有两套住房,市值约为150万元,其中一套住房出租,年收入为15000元.存款约为15万元.对于这笔存款,夫妻俩原本打算在2007年年初购买股票或者基金,但一直没有看准行情,2007年11月份股市震荡之后,他们更加犹豫.目前没有任何投资.     

Almanac of anticipations: The age of affluence—of anticipation—of anxiety—of automation—of discontinuity—of longing—of overkill—of space exploration

With this survey of developments in the futures field since 1945, I.F. Clarke completes his present series for Futures. He makes two major points: that forecasting techniques have become essential tools in the management of change; and that nuclear weapons and ecological problems have added a moral dimension to the study of the future. In the next issue of Futures he will start a new series on the range of future-thinking in the USA, from the expectations of the first settlers to the Star Wars programme.     

社会主义所有制形式的改革、完善与共产党执政能力的提高

在中国,所有制形式的调整、改革与完善,先进生产力的发展,党的执政能力建设,是社会主义建设过程中密切结合在一起的三个不同层面的发展关系.应在相互促进和共同提高中促进社会的和谐发展,保证社会主义现代化建设战略目标的顺利实现.     

基金公司经营融资融券业务的问题审视

融资融券业务正式运营已经开展,为证券市场带来了革命性的改革,作为证券市场的一大主体,基金公司面对融资融券也迎来了新的发展方向和挑战,本文从融资融券业务的运行机制入手,分析了基金公司融资融券的新契机,并对其即将面临的问题进行审视和剖析,进而提出策略建议.     

对基层人民银行科技工作的几点建议

银监会分设后,人民银行将专司货币政策、金融稳定、金融服务三大职能。作为人民银行的分支机构,基层人民银行的工作重心也将从金融监管调整到这三大职能上来。人民银行的科技部门,就要积极运用科技手段,为人民银行履行新的职能发挥“服务、支持、促进、发展”的作用。一、围绕三大职能搭建五大平台经过“六五打基础、七五作准备、八五大发展”几个阶段后,人民银行相继实现了核算电算化、清算网络化和办公信息化。特别是近一两年来,陆续开通了大额支付系统、信贷登记咨询系统、会计四集中系统、金融信息服务网站等系统,人民银行信息化水平又…     

Properties of time-series estimates of degree of leverage measures

Empirical studies suggest that time-series regression estimates of the degrees of operating and financial leverage have a tendency to produce measures less than one. According to ex ante theory, these measures should be greater than one for firms operating above the breakeven point. There have also been suggestions that the biases in these estimates may be attributable to an underlying increase in unit sales. This work presents evidence that these counter-intuitive measures are produced by changes in the firm's operating parameters (unit price, variable cost, fixed cost and interest payments). It further suggests that attempts to control for the underlying change in unit sales substantially increase the volatility of predicted estimates.     

浅议金融机构的举证责任

金融纠纷案件是当事人以存单或进账单、对账单、存款合同、保险单、票据、证券等凭证为主要证据向人民法院提出诉讼的案件,对于不同种类金融纠纷的当事人的举证责任,我国现行的金融法律、法规及司法解释有不同的规定。由于金融机构的特殊法律地位,发生金融纠纷时存在有关当事人将最后偿付风险转移给金融机构承担的主观故意,在客观上会使金融机构难以提供相应的证据来对抗不法债权人的诉讼请求,而导致金融机构败诉。为此,对金融诉讼案件中金融机构的举证责任加以研究具有重要的实践意义。     

Summary of Results of Survey of Seminar Attendees

Abstract

The Society of Actuaries undertook a three-phase research project on mortality improvement in the three NAFTA countries: Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Phase 1 consisted of a literature review of papers on projecting mortality levels in the future and a study of the trend in mortality improvement during this century. Phase 2 consisted of a discussion of different facets of modeling mortality rates at a seminar attended by 79 experts (actuaries, demographers, economists, and medical researchers) representing different countries. The last session of the seminar consisted of the completion of a survey by the attendees to obtain input for Phase 3, which would analyze the impact of mortality improvement on the social security system of each country. This paper summarizes the results of the survey.

The survey results illustrate the difficulty in forecasting mortality levels, because the effects of many factors that could have significant impact on mortality rates are unknown. This suggests the need for dynamic forecasting, which allows for the possibility of random shocks. A majority of the survey respondents believe that stochastic forecasting models, despite their complexity, have significant potential to add value. Respondents also believe that both historical data and cause-specific mortality forecasts are useful as input and also in validating forecasts of the aggregate levels of mortality. The challenge is to develop more sophisticated forecasting models to produce results that are relatively easy to interpret and to communicate these results to the desired audiences, including the public and policymakers.

The survey results suggest that the aggregate effect of lifestyle changes, medical advances, diseases, catastrophe, and physical environmental changes is an increase in life span. However, there is much uncertainty about the future. Respondents expect that beyond the year 2020 the mean annual rate of reduction in mortality for males age 65 and over will average about 0.58% for Canada, 0.76% for Mexico, and 0.67% for the U.S. The results for the female age 65 and over population are 0.64%, 0.83%, and 0.70%, respectively. The age 65 and over population is expected to see larger percentage reductions in mortality than the 0–14 and 15–64 populations. The reductions in male and female mortality will be ultimately the same, and the mortality levels in the three countries will ultimately converge, although differences may persist for decades.     

The Usefulness of Measures of Consistency of Discretionary Components of Accruals in the Detection of Earnings Management

Abstract:  Prior research has shown the prevalence of measurement error in models used to estimate aggregate discretionary accruals. In these models, the incremental information content of the various components of accruals is ignored. Limited prior research and data gathered from firms under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) litigation indicate that managers use either one or more than one component of accruals simultaneously, in a consistent way to manipulate bottom-line earnings in a given direction. I propose two measures that capture the consistency between the discretionary components of accruals and test their significance in earnings management (EM) detection in firms that have artificially added accrual manipulation and firms that were targeted by the SEC for accrual manipulation. There is evidence that this information is incrementally useful in detecting EM. This finding paves the way for improvements in the discretionary accruals measure by including consistency information from the components of aggregate accruals.     

Separation of Unit of Account from Medium of Exchange

The separation of a unit of account (UoA) from a medium of exchange (MoE) in the commodity–money system is investigated by considering explicitly a seller's choice of UoA in terms of either an MoE or a unit of metal weight. If the likelihood of debasement of an MoE and its rate are high enough, the price is posted in terms of a unit of metal weight rather than an MoE. Interestingly, this MoE–UoA separated equilibrium yields the flexible nominal price, whereas an MoE–UoA integrated equilibrium yields the sticky one. This implies the nominal price rigidity in the fiat‐money system where MoE and UoA are integrated.