由证监会统一管理上市公司年报审计的思考

在内部人控制条件下,企图让注册会计师发表的审计意见真正有价值的努力都将是徒劳的。无论怎样完善监管机制,加强惩罚措施,都无法改变一个事实:董事会所聘任的会计师事务所对实际由董事会主要成员负责的会计报表进行审计,本身就违背了审计的\"大忌\"——实质上的独立。由自己雇人审计自己导致的必然结果是在公司内部人需要注册会计师作假时,注册会计师拒绝的可能性非常小。对这一结果进行分析,原因不外乎以下几点:①作假有不被发现的可能,或者发现后不会受到惩罚的可能。在现实中这种作假无事的概率似乎还很大,且注册会计师作假获得的回报足够丰厚,作假者的风险和收益不对称。②如果注册会计师在公司需要时不肯作假,会计师事务所很可能会被炒鱿鱼,而     

如何读上市公司年报

年报是上市公司信息披露的核心,也是了解上市公司基本面的最重要资料,它对所有投资者都是公开的,阅读和分析年报是投资的一项基本功.目前,沪深两地上市公司已达1600多家,年报披露由于及时性要求集中在一个较短的时间内公布,大量年报的"文山字海"令部分投资者无暇应付,对年报的阅读只是走马观花,一晃而过.此种阅读方式往往使投资者无法从年报中获取有价值的信息.那么应如何抓住年报的要点,有效地阅读上市公司年报呢?     

中注协约谈会计师事务所提示频繁变更会计师事务所的上市公司年报审计风险

近日,中注协书面约谈永拓会计师事务所(特殊普通合伙),提示频繁变更会计师事务所的上市公司年报审计风险。近年来,上市公司更换会计师事务所现象频发,部分上市公司甚至一年内多次变更年报审计机构,审计风险较高。注册会计师在执行相关审计业务时,应重点关注如下事项:一是加强前后任注册会计师沟通。     

新会计准则对年报信息的七大影响

新会计准则的实施涉及年报的方方面面,许多公司的业绩因此发生了改变。为了帮助投资者更好的了解上市公司的经营情况,本文重点分析了新会计准则对年报财务指标的七大影响。     

独立董事问题研究

产生的背景我国的独立董事制度是在一个特殊背景之下产生的,并不是自然而然演变来的;而是监管部门迫于媒体、投资者等的压力而推出的,所以说并非一开始我国就有独立董事。2001年,我国的许多上市公司爆发财务丑闻,如银广夏虚构利润、亿安科技操纵股价、大股东抽干"猴王"血等等以及成都市蜀都会计师事务所、湖北立华会计师事务所、深圳"中天勤"会计师事务所等知名会计师事务所的造假案,尤其是"中天勤"在"银广夏虚构利润"案件中为虎作伥的帮凶形象,更使国人惊呆。广大投资者对上市公司、证券市场和证券监管机构的信心一落千丈。诸如公司的治理机制、证券市场的监管机制、会计准则的制定机制、CPA的行业自律机制,都被认为存在着严重的结构性问题。     

捧着年报选股票

股神巴菲特一直是注重价值投资的,用他的话说买股票就要买一个好公司,而判断一个公司的好坏,关键就是看公司年报。中外股民对待年报态度迥异国外投资者对上市公司的财务报表非常重视,欧美股市中,一年大多数交易日的行情都是随着大大小小的报表、数据起舞。     

中注协印发《上市公司年报审计监管工作规程》

为贯彻落实行业创先争优制度建设年活动要求和会计师事务所执业质量检查制度改革精神,在总结近年来上市公司年报审计监管实践的基础上,中注协制定印发《上市公司年报审计监管工作规程》(以下简称《工作规程》),进一步加强和完善上市公司年报审计监管工作,不断提升上市公司年报审计工作质量,深化行业诚信建设。     

Credit default swap spreads and annual report readability

This paper investigates whether annual report readability matters to CDS market participants and how it affects their evaluation on a firm’s credit risk, as measured by CDS spreads. We find that the less readable the annual reports, the higher the CDS spreads. Furthermore, the impact of readability on CDS spreads is more concentrated on firms with high information asymmetry and with investment grade ratings. Our results suggest that investors take into account the readability in their view of the firms’ credit risk. Creditors appear to suffer higher cost on CDS protection of the debts if the underlying firms have less readable annual reports.     

The influence of business strategy on annual report readability

Concerns about the complexity of firm disclosures have prompted regulators to initiate projects to improve the readability of annual reports. We investigate business strategy as a determinant of annual report readability. As business strategy fundamentally determines a firm’s product and market domain, technology, and organizational structure, it influences a firm’s operating complexity, environmental uncertainty and information asymmetry. Consequently, business strategy frames the level, wording, and complexity of disclosures. We capture a firm’s business strategy based on the Miles and Snow (1978) strategic typology and measure 10-K readability with Li’s (2008) Fog index. We find that firms pursuing an innovation-oriented prospector strategy have less readable 10-Ks relative to firms pursuing an efficiency-oriented defender strategy. We also find that prospectors display more negative and uncertainty tones while defenders exhibit more litigious tone in their 10-Ks. Our study provides useful insights to policy makers as it suggests that efforts to improve annual report readability may be limited for some firms given that business strategy is a fundamental determinant of readability and pronouncements accommodating different strategic orientations are not feasible.     

Value relevance of voluntary disclosure in the annual report

This paper examines whether the level of voluntary disclosure affects the association between current returns and future earnings. Economic theory suggests that firms might find it advantageous to provide additional pieces of information (i.e. voluntary disclosure) to investors and analysts. Our results indicate that more voluntary disclosure does not improve the association between current returns and future earnings (i.e. current returns do not reflect more future earnings news). This finding raises the question of whether voluntary information in the annual report contains value‐relevant information about future earnings or if investors are simply not capable of incorporating voluntary information in the firm value estimates.     

回顾2006年A股上市银行年报

资产规模大幅增加2006年上市银行的资产规模都有较大比例增加,其中兴业银行总资产规模增幅最大,为30．02％,中国银行总资产规模增幅最小,为12．28％。而工行的资产规模与市值都是最大。2006年10月27日,中国工商银行首开先河,A H同步发行上市成功,创下了全球资本市场有史以来发行规模最大等多项纪录。截至     

The costs and benefits of the Form 5500 annual report

The author suggests that although the Form 5500 annual report may help to reduce legal violations, it may do so in an unnecessarily expensive way that serves the economic interests of some professional groups. In particular, his investigation suggests that the CPA audit provides questionable benefits and amounts to a special interest group's extraction of rents through the regulatory process.     

如何降低房地产开发企业年报审计风险

从行业的经营特征来看,房地产开发企业的成本、收入、税金和资产确认的主观性都高于一般的工商企业.这就相应加大了注册会计师合理把握相关审计准则的难度.从1999年深沪两市的房地产开发企业的审计报告来看,总共33家公司,出具标准无保留意见审计报告的22家,占67%;而出具非标准无保留意见审计报告的却有11家,占33%.     

Loss firms’ annual report narratives and share price anticipation of earnings

We extend prior research into the association between disclosure quality and share price anticipation of earnings by discriminating between firms that report profits and firms that report losses. As a measure of disclosure quality we count the number of forward-looking earnings statements in annual report narratives. To measure the extent to which current share price movements anticipate future earnings changes we regress current stock returns on current and future earnings changes. The coefficients on the future earnings change variables are our measure of share price anticipation of earnings.Our regression results show that the association between annual report narratives and share price anticipation of earnings is not the same for profit and loss firms. For loss firms we find that the ability of stock returns to anticipate next period's earnings change is significantly greater when the firm provides a large number of earnings predictions in annual report narratives. We make no such observation for profit firms. In addition, once we control for variations in the intrinsic lead–lag relation between returns and earnings across industries, the observed difference between profit and loss firms becomes statistically significant. Overall, our results are consistent with annual report narratives being a particularly important source of information for loss-making firms.     

Disclosure of outsourcing in the annual report: Causes and market returns effects

Firms increasingly are utilizing outsourcing to enhance or maintain their competitiveness. Prior research shows that capital markets value a firm's decision to outsource. This study uses a sample of firms announcing outsourcing arrangements in a press release to examine which factors are associated with the subsequent decision to voluntarily provide or withhold information about outsourcing in their annual report. The paper also examines whether annual report disclosure is a reliable signal of future market performance. We find that underperforming firms, larger firms, and firms experiencing negative outsourcing announcement market returns and negative long-term market returns are more likely to disclose outsourcing in their annual reports. There is also evidence that firms' disclosure of outsourcing in the annual report signals an improvement in market performance that is credible to the capital markets. We contend that the disclosure and subsequent firm performance issues we investigate apply to any type of outsourcing arrangement, and therefore our results are relevant to future information systems research on this subject. Our findings also suggest that regulatory standards could reduce private information search costs for investors by providing a common disclosure methodology for outsourcing activities.