浅析内向型管理审计在公司治理结构中的作用

内向型管理审计是公司治理结构的重要组成部分，有效的内向型管理审计有利于公司治理结构的完善。要实现公司治理的目标，就必须正确认识内向型管理审计与公司治理之间的互动关系，并充分发挥内向型管理审计在公司治理结构中的积极作用。     

Auditor Fees, Market Microstructure, and Firm Transparency

Abstract:  Auditors, as corporate insiders, have access to private information regarding the firm's financial and business opacity that is unavailable to outside investors. We test whether auditors price their knowledge of firm opacity in their audit fees by examining two competing hypotheses. The first states that higher audit fees may reflect the greater risk that the auditor faces in auditing an opaque firm. Under this hypothesis, market based measures of opacity will be positively correlated with higher fees. The second hypothesis states that firms buy reputational capital from their auditor by paying high fees in an attempt to improve the market's perception of the firm's transparency. In this case, higher audit fees are negatively correlated with market based measures of opacity. Our results are consistent with the first hypothesis, that auditors price opacity risk into their fees.     

风险导向审计模式在新的准则体系中的应用

2006年2月15日,财政部发布了48项中国注册会计师执业准则,新的准则体系构建了崭新的风险导向审计模型,标志着风险导向审计在我国即将步人实施阶段.本文从风险导向审计模式的含义人手,研讨了新的审计准则体系对风险导向审计模式的框架构建,以及在该模式下的审计业务主要流程.     

An Experimental Study of Auditor Analytical Review Judgements

This paper provides evidence as to how five factors highlighted in the current UK auditing standard are taken into account by auditors in analytical review (AR) judgements. While the relative importance of particular cues was generally found to be consistent with the standard, certain factors were taken into account only to a marginal extent. Little evidence of configural cue usage was identified. The study also provides evidence of a tendency towards conservatism in the way auditors approach AR. The results suggest both that the potential to substitute AR for other substantive procedures may be realised only imperfectly and that the issue of configural reasoning should be addressed in the auditing standard.     

关于科研事业单位内部经济责任审计的思考

事业单位加强经济责任审计是促进管理科学化、规范化,提高管理水平的重要环节和重要途径,对建立健全惩治和预防腐败体系具有重要意义。文章从内部经济责任审计的特点和内容入手,分析探讨现阶段审计实施中存在的各种问题,从而探索科研事业单位内部经济责任审计的未来发展方向和具体操作方法。     

The impact of cultural environment on entry-level auditors’ abilities to perform analytical procedures

We focus on the impact of three of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and individualism, on the results of analytical procedures conducted by entry-level auditors in Mexico and the U.S. Analytical procedures are ideal for this research as they require auditors to use professional judgment and appropriate levels of professional skepticism, abilities related to all three cultural characteristics. We find no other study investigating the impact of culture on the application of auditing procedures similar across the studied cultures.We find cultural characteristics do not affect the participants’ abilities to predict income statement balances, but they may influence the ability to predict changes in balance sheet accounts. We also find culture is associated with differences in risk assessments. Our results indicate that participants rarely differentiate accounts that change according to expectation from those that change contrary to expectation, but rather alter their risk assessments to match the direction of balances that increase or decrease.     

Incentives to Reduce Crop Trait Durability

To reduce the competition from farmers who self-produce seed, an inbred line seed producer can switch to nondurable hybrid seed. In a two-period framework, we first investigate the impact of crop durability on self-production, pricing and switching decisions. Second, we study how the introduction of a fee paid by self-producing farmers affects those decisions. We find that the monopolist may produce technologically dominated hybrid seed in order to extract more surplus from farmers. Further, the introduction of a self-production fee improves efficiency.     

Auditing Standards in China—A Comparative Analysis with Relevant International Standards and Guidelines

The continuing and deepening economic reforms in China have brought many changes both socially and economically to the society. The primary function of auditing in China has begun to shift away from the traditional tax compliance assessment towards the credibility lending to financial statements. The economic reforms and the development of the Accounting Standards for Business Enterprises have necessitated the parallel development of auditing standards in China. While some significant differences exist, the new Chinese auditing standards are, in a number of important aspects, similar to the professional standards promulgated by the International Federation of Accountants. The development of a comprehensive body of standards, auditor independence, the role of certain auditing techniques, and certified public accountant (CPA) population are the major areas that China needs to improve. Opening up the Chinese accounting industry will trigger significant advances in the implementation of Chinese standards and the development of the Chinese accounting profession.     

基于资源共享的网络审计程序与方法设计

计算机和网络技术的飞速发展,必然引起审计理论和技术的深刻变革。本文在分析网络审计概念、特征及优势的基础上,提出了基于资源共享的网络审计程序与方法,并对开展网络审计所面临的问题进行了讨论。     

构建审计风险防范之方略

近年来，涉及审计的诉讼案件不断增加以及会计公司在法律诉讼及赔偿方面费用的不断攀升，导致会计师职业界职业风险压力越来越高。因此，要重视审计风险的防范，通过营造良好的工作环境，严格审计程序，提高人员素质，增强与客户的沟通与联系，积极引进风险基础审计等，降低审计风险。