CFO gender and financial reporting transparency in banks

We investigate the effect of CFO gender on the timeliness of loan loss provision (LLP) reporting using a large sample of US banks from 2007 to 2016. Our findings show that women CFOs are associated with timelier forward-looking provisioning than men counterparts, suggesting that they follow a more transparent approach to financial reporting policies. Our results hold under different model specifications, including the use of bank and CEO fixed effects. We further address endogeneity concerns by showing that the timeliness of LLP reporting improves significantly for banks experiencing a man-followed-by-woman CFO transition. Overall, our study supports the notion that women CFOs are associated with higher financial reporting transparency and provides further insights into how CFO gender affects risk-aversion and ethics in banks, with wider implications about the importance of women’s representation in the finance-based industry.     

Chief financial officer demographic characteristics and fraudulent financial reporting in China

We investigate whether management's cognitions, values and perceptions are associated with fraud for 18 863 firm‐years for Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2014. Demographic characteristics of the chief financial officer (CFO) are used as proxies for management's cognitions, values and perceptions. We find that fraudulent financial reporting is higher when CFOs are younger, male, and have lower education backgrounds. An analysis of inflated earnings, fictitious assets, material omissions and other material misstatements provide similar results, with the exception that CFOs with higher education levels are associated with more inflated earnings.     

我国上市公司CFO的现状及成长研究

在现代公司治理之中,CFO是一个不可或缺的职位,担任着公司的管理者以及总管家的角色,是企业日常经营和重大决策时不可缺少的高级参谋。一种观点认为CFO这个职位理应由财务人员担任,想当然地认为CFO中多数都是精通财务的老会计。本文研究CFO的成长之路上,什么才是最重要的。研究的结果发现,在样本选取的范围内,具有会计背景的CFO仅占了总数的18%。也就是说CFO这个职位并不是主要由财务人员担任,这主要是由于财务人员和CFO的工作重心存在着很大的不同,因此两者对任职人员的素质要求也存在很大不同。最后本文对CFO的成长之路上比较重要的要素做了总结,并对有志成为CFO的人士提出了建议。     

Seeing is believing? Executives' facial trustworthiness,auditor tenure,and audit fees

Psychology and neuroscience studies document that facial trustworthiness perceptions may affect observers' decision-making process. Our study examines whether auditors' perceptions of client executives' facial trustworthiness are associated with their audit fee decisions. We employ a machine-learning-based face-detection algorithm to measure executives' facial trustworthiness. We find that auditors charge 5.6% less audit fee to firms with trustworthy-looking CFOs than to those with untrustworthy-looking CFOs in initial audit engagements. Auditor tenure weakens the negative association between CFOs' facial trustworthiness and audit fee. Further evidence shows that CFO's facial trustworthiness is associated with neither financial reporting quality nor litigation risk.     

改革国企公司首席财务官制度的思索:从总会计师走向CFO

国有资本淡出一般竞争性领域不可能一蹴而就,相当数量的国有企业在进行公司制改革后,以市场普通主体的身份参与公平竞争。但从计划经济体系下的国有企业脱胎而来的国企公司,原有的首席财务官制度———总会计师制度已很难满足市场经济的需要。因此,改革国企公司现行首席财务官制度,从总会计师走向CFO,已是大势所趋。     

CFO在公司治理中的角色定位

CFO正在使公司财务管理的传统地位发生革命性的变化：他们参与公司经营的全过程，并以一种真正的伙伴关系与CEO一起进行决策。CFO立足于股东和经营管理者之间，是公司重要战略决策的制定者和执行者之一。CFO制度是现代企业制度的重要组成部分并保证现代企业制度的执行效果。本文从原始的公司治理理论入手，探寻现代公司治理对CFO的要求、CFO的责任及相应的角色定位。     

论企业科学管理中首席财务官的角色定位

文章从国内外CFO现状入手,提出了中国CFO的角色需要重新定位,并从我国国情、改善法制环境、加强行业监管、提高CFO自身素质等方面,提出了逐步完善我国CFO制度的措施.     

CFO's accounting talent,compensation and turnover

This paper builds on and contributes to the literature on Chief Financial Officer's (CFO) compensation and turnover. We contend that the accounting talent of CFOs can be measured by accounting errors that occur when CFOs implement accounting standards. We find (i) a positive association between the CFO's accounting talent and the CFO's compensation ex ante in the transition year; (ii) a positive association between the CFO's accounting talent and the CFO's bonus in the subsequent year (adoption year); and (iii) an inverse association between the CFO's accounting talent and CFO turnover in the subsequent year (adoption year).     

产权性质、CFO背景特征与内部控制质量

基于高层梯队理论和社会网络理论,以2008-2015年我国A股上市公司为样本,实证考察CFO背景特征对公司内部控制质量的影响。研究发现：CFO的年龄越大、任期越长,内部控制质量越低;CFO的学历越高,内部控制质量越高;女性CFO较男性CFO在内部控制建设方面存在相对劣势;CFO外部兼职有助于提升内部控制质量。进一步研究发现：在国有企业和非国有企业中,CFO背景特征对内部控制质量的影响存在显著的差异。     

建立CEO与CFO并行的管理模式

总会计师制度已不适应我国高速发展市场经济的时代要求，逐步在我国企业中建立财务总监制度，并不断提升其管理地位，然后进一步形成CEO(执行总裁)和CFO(财务，总监)相对并行的管理模式，对健全我国的现代企业制度、完善公司治理、确保会计信息的真实性和进一步规范证券市场等都具有重要意义。