Do goodwill impairments affect audit opinions? Evidence from China

There has been a steady growth of goodwill impairments in the Chinese stock market since the adoption of the impairment approach in accounting. The influence of goodwill impairments on a firm’s financial position and profitability give reason to doubt its current and future performance. We examine whether auditors, as a crucial external monitor, identify the information risks of goodwill impairments and express their concerns about financial reporting quality in their audit opinions. Using a sample of firms listed on China’s A-share market from 2007 to 2017, we test the association between goodwill impairments and the type of audit opinion received in the same financial period. Our findings are as follows. First, the probability of receiving a modified opinion increases with the amount of goodwill impairments. Second, the positive association between goodwill impairments and modified audit opinions is driven primarily by earnings management risks. Third, this positive association is more salient when auditors are industry experts and there is no auditor–client mismatch. Fourth, auditors are more sensitive to the amount of goodwill impairments than to their mere existence. Overall, we document that auditors perceive goodwill impairments as a signal of information risks and communicate their concerns to investors to avoid litigation.     

工程建设质量控制中的特殊过程确认

ISO9001质量管理体系中对特殊过程及特殊过程确认作了具体规定,本文就特殊过程及特殊过程确认的概念、特点、内容、方法作了分析,结合其对工程建设中质量控制的指导意义,分析说明了在监理工作中进行质量控制的具体做法。     

中小企业成长的理论

概根据相关文献资料对中小企业成长的理论观点,本文作了归纳、整理,目的在于识别影响和决定其成长的关键因素,理解和把握其生存发展的规律,以有助于从事创业的企业家和中小企业经营管理者借鉴,为政府制订面向中小企业的支持体系建设提供理论依据。     

加快向公共服务型政府转变--从SARS突袭谈起

SARS危机直接暴露出我国政府在公共卫生和医疗,尤其是农村公共卫生和医疗中的欠账太多。从有关数据显示,我国经济增长的成果没能主要投资于公共卫生和医疗、社会保障、教育等社会事业发展问题,政府仍是一个经济建设型政府,远没有完成向公共服务型政府的转变。经济建设型政府,比     

跨国公司跨境环境管理战略模式及其影响因素

跨国公司国际生产的延伸带来了对生产过程中的环境问题,引起了对跨国公司环境管理战略的关注.本文介绍的跨境环境管理的模式,其集中程度是由分散化逐渐向高度一体化提升的一个连续的集合.影响跨国公司各环境管理战略一体化程度因素包括产业因素、公司内部因素、正式规制因素以及市场因素.     

Asymmetric volatility in the foreign exchange markets

We examine the presence or absence of asymmetric volatility in the exchange rates of Australian dollar (AUD), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP) and Japanese yen (JPY), all against US dollar. Our investigation is based on a variant of the heterogeneous autoregressive realized volatility model, using daily realized variance and return series from 1996 to 2004. We find that a depreciation against USD leads to significantly greater volatility than an appreciation for AUD and GBP, whereas the opposite is true for JPY. Relative to volatility on days following a positive one-standard-deviation return, volatility on days following a negative one-standard-deviation return is higher by 6.6% for AUD, 6.1% for GBP, and 21.2% for JPY. The realized volatility of EUR appears to be symmetric. These results are robust to the removal of jump component from realized volatility and the sub-samplings defined by structural-changes. The asymmetry in AUD, GBP and JPY appears to be embedded in the continuous component of realized volatility rather than the jump component.     

悬浮床加氢裂化工艺技术经济分析

介绍了重油悬浮床加氢裂化工艺的最新发展，对国内新开发的悬浮床加氢裂化工艺特点作了介绍。并将悬浮床加氢和三种重油轻质化工艺——固定床加氢、延迟焦化、重油催化裂化在技术经济上作了分析对比。在原油品质越来越差的今天，针对劣质重油而开发的的悬浮床加氢裂化工艺具有非常广阔的应用前景。     

趋势与对策:中国保险业经营环境发展研究

作为中国金融业的一个重要组成部分,保险业处在对外开放的前沿,中国加入世界贸易组织为其所设定的过渡期已经结束,论文分析了过渡期以后中国保险业经营环境的变化趋势,并针对性地给出了对策建议。     

汽车制造企业质量成本核算实证研究

质量成本核算是企业质量成本管理的一项重要内容,是企业优化质量成本结构,进行质量改进的重要基础。本文通过实证研究,提出了对汽车制造企业进行质量成本核算的一般方法,对汽车制造企业的质量成本项目进行了详实的分类分析,为同类企业实施质量成本管理工作提供了应用参考。