How and why auditors’ social exchange relationships influence their attitudes and behaviors: Implications for audit quality

External auditors regularly interact with various parties at work, such as their accounting firms, engagement team members, and clients. These interactions can help shape the nature of auditors’ social exchange relationships with these entities, which in turn may influence their behavior toward these targets. This installment of Accounting Matters draws from recently published research by Herda and colleagues to (1) explain how constructive auditor-target connections can develop and lead to beneficial outcomes like reduced auditor burnout and turnover intentions, as well as more citizenship behavior, and (2) discuss how these upshots might ultimately affect audit quality. This topic is important because audit quality translates into improved financial reporting, which helps stakeholders who rely on audited financial statements to make informed business decisions. Specifically, we underscore the key role auditors’ perceptions of fair treatment from a relationship partner play in fostering a strong psychological bond with the target via perceived support. We further consider how auditors’ consequent commitment to the target can result in favorable organizational outcomes, including enhanced audit and financial reporting quality. We also discuss practical implications for accounting firms.     

Optimal targeting of latent tourism demand segments

This paper identifies for the first time the optimal target markets employing the latent tourism demand expenditure, a novel concept in tourism literature. The study quantifies latent tourism demand between each pair of origin-destination through distinguishing by type of tourism and seasonality. It works with market shares that are estimated via a fractional regression model. Moreover, latent demand is clustered using a market segmentation approach based on a latent class regression. Finally, the optimal target markets are chosen depending on the expected latent tourism expenditure. The result has clear policy implications in terms of which markets are promoted, the optimal channels of communication and the maximum budget for each marketing campaign.     

Incorporating active adjustment into a financing based model of capital structure

The conventional partial adjustment model, which focuses on leverage evolution, has difficulty identifying deliberate capital structure adjustments as it confounds financing decisions with the mechanical autocorrelation of leverage. We propose and estimate a financing-based partial adjustment model that separates the effects of financing decisions on leverage evolution from mechanical evolution. The speed of adjustment (SOA) is firm-specific and stochastic, and active targeting of capital structure has a multiplier effect that depends on the size of financial deficit. Overall, we find expected SOA from active rebalancing (30%) more than doubles what is expected from mechanical mean reversion alone (13%).     

对我国商业银行中间业务的定价机制与风险管理的思考

商业银行中间业务经营成本主要有：人力费用成本、物力消耗成本、风险产品承受成本。定价机理应采用经营成本收费制度，建立全成本核算体系。遵循合理、公平、诚信和质价相符的中间业务定价原则，积极加强与客户的沟通与告知；遵循中间业务定价流程，进行客户层次细分和市场定位；运用SWOT分析法，谋求竞争定价与实行差别定价，积极加强与同业的合作，防止恶性竞争；坚持服务性能创新，提高服务附加值含金量；适时对银行员工进行培训，积极让员工参与定价决策；适应开放型定价的趋势和要求，酌情考虑产品的关系定价。与此同时应强化担保承诺类表外业务的信用风险管理，交易类中间业务的市场风险管理，服务类中间业务的操作风险管理，而表外业务的信用风险和市场风险管理是风险管理重点。此外，商业银行开展中间业务还应防范政策风险和法律风险。     

Deal characteristics and M&A performance: How do hospitality firms fare?

The global hospitality industry has experienced significant consolidation in the past several decades. While evidence in the general business literature suggests that the target firm shareholders gain instead of the acquiring firm shareholders, some studies in the hospitality industry have suggested that mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are also beneficial to acquiring firms. Using a comparative study design and a comprehensive sample over 41 years, we empirically examine whether M&As create more value in the hospitality industry than in other industries and whether certain deal characteristics may explain the potential performance differential. Overall, we find that M&As in the hospitality industry outperform M&As in non-hospitality sectors. When examining deal attributes, we find that relative size of target, cash method of payment, and an unlisted target are characteristics positively related to merger performance and help explain some of the performance differential. We contribute theoretically and empirically to the literature by demonstrating that industry and deal effects play an important role in M&A performance.     

露天矿山矿用大车成本控制措施

文章主要介绍了矿用大车运行中成本控制的方法与措施。通过多种措施来降低企业成本,向管理要效益,为企业又好又快发展作出贡献。     

《同业拆借管理办法》保障市场健康发展——专访中国人民银行金融市场司司长兼上海总部金融市场管理部主任穆怀朋

作为十年来最重要的同业拆借政策调整,《同业拆借管理办法》（中国人民银行令[2007]第3号）颁布以来,市场参与者反响积极,同业拆借市场发展步入了一个新阶段。在《同业拆借管理办法》颁布一周年之际,本刊记者带着一系列受到业界广泛关注的问题,对中国人民银行金融市场司司长兼上海总部金融市场管理部主任穆怀朋先生进行了专访。     

铁路客运专线成本曲线分析

借鉴国内外客运专线资料,对铁路客运专线运输成本的特性及构成进行论述,并从速度目标值与客运量两方面分析对运输成本的影响,说明速度目标值直接影响客运专线的运输成本,而固定成本与客运量无关,变动成本与客运量成正比变化。     

Target volatility option pricing in the lognormal fractional SABR model

We examine in this article the pricing of target volatility options in the lognormal fractional SABR model. A decomposition formula of Itô's calculus yields an approximation formula for the price of a target volatility option in small time by the technique of freezing the coefficient. A decomposition formula in terms of Malliavin derivatives is also provided. Alternatively, we also derive closed form expressions for a small volatility of volatility expansion of the price of a target volatility option. Numerical experiments show the accuracy of the approximations over a reasonably wide range of parameters.     

试论图书馆人力资源管理

当前．我国图书馆人力资源的现状是：一方面人才缺乏,另一方面,现有人力资源得不到充分的使用。如何挖掘现有人力资源并使其增值,是图书馆面临的迫切问题。