Overconfidence and tax avoidance: The role of CEO and CFO interaction

We investigate how overconfident CEOs and CFOs may interact to influence firms’ tax avoidance. We adopt an equity measure to capture overconfident CEOs and CFOs and utilize multiple measures to identify companies’ tax-avoidance activities. We document that CFOs, as CEOs’ business partners, play an important role in facilitating and executing overconfident CEOs’ decisions in regard to tax avoidance. Specifically, we find that companies are more likely to engage in tax-avoidance activities when they have both overconfident CEOs and overconfident CFOs, compared with companies that have other combinations of CEO/CFO overconfidence (e.g., an overconfident CEO with a non-overconfident CFO), which is consistent with the False Consensus Effect Theory. Our study helps investors, regulators, and policymakers understand companies’ decision-making processes with regard to tax avoidance.     

Top executive gender diversity and financial reporting quality

We examine whether gender diversity of chief executive and chief financial officers (CEOs and CFOs) is associated with financial reporting quality. The CEOs and CFOs of publicly traded companies are both required to certify the appropriateness of their financial statements and annual disclosures. We argue that gender diverse dyads (groups) of executives can bring different perspectives and professional skepticism to financial reporting. Using a sample of different CEO/CFO gender dyads during 2006–2019, we postulate and find evidence of higher accruals quality among firms led by gender-diverse dyads compared to accruals quality reported by firms led by all-male CEO/CFO pairs. Additional analyses reveal that the auditors of firms with gender-diverse executive dyads issue audit reports later, charge higher audit fees, and are more likely to be one of the Big 4 firms. These findings support the view that top executive gender diversity enhances financial reporting quality, which has important implications for corporate governance mechanisms.     

美国CFO制度及启示

美国公司治理中CFO制度能为我国总会计师制度的完善提供有益的启示和借鉴。     

浅谈我国CFO角色定位

我国的企业正面临着严峻的挑战,除了具有与世界上别的公司相同的因素外,还包括许多我国市场经济转型体制下所特有的因素。在这种情况下,企业所需要的不是一般的CFO,而是高素质、高水平的 CFO,他们既要具备与世界接轨的先进的财务金融知识和技能,还要充分了解我国的国情。     

保险公司CFO的职能与角色定位

现代公司治理结构下,CFO正发挥着越来越重要的作用。但自从CFO—词引入中国以来,理论界和实务界就从来没有对它的职能和角色定位达成一致认识。本文在对比分析的基础上,通过界定CFO的概念、比较国外成熟市场下CFO与中国财务负责人的职能和角色定位,最后将研究的范围集中在高风险及双重信息不对称的保险市场,提出了保险公司CFO的职能设定及角色定位。     

金融学教育应该注重培养CFO人才

中西方大学在金融学课程设置方面存在着巨大的差异。目前我国企业界迫切需要精通投资学与财务学的CFO人才，这对金融学教育提出了新的要求和挑战。金融学专业课程的设置应该能够为培养掌握投资理论和实务、财务管理及分析、税收筹划、公司治理等专业知识的现代化、国际化人才搭建一个坚实的平台。通过借鉴西方大学金融学课程结构安排，大力增加公司财务学方面课程比重，增加实践环节课时数量，努力培养出大批既掌握金融市场投资，又通晓公司财务运作的高级CFO人才。     

CFO审计师经历、旋转门现象与会计稳健性

到客户管理层就职是会计师事务所审计师的一个重要职业选择,但监管机构对审计质量和企业财务报告质量的担忧引发了对此类现象的严格监管.本文基于2002年~2011年我国A股上市公司CFO的变更事件,从审计师的职业谨慎性出发,探讨了CFO审计师经历、"旋转门"现象对上市公司会计稳健性的影响.研究发现:CFO审计师经历能提高会计稳健性;"旋转门"现象并没有削弱公司会计稳健性;相比仅有审计师经历的新聘任CFO,"旋转门"现象下的CFO能更快地融入新公司并发挥作用.     

CFO知识背景、知识外溢与企业绩效关系研究

随着CFO的职能特征由技术性向战略性转变,CFO的知识需求也由专业性逐步转变为综合性。本文阐述了CFO职能变迁与知识需求改变的关系,运用我国A股制造业上市公司的数据对CFO知识背景综合性级别进行评判并开展实证研究。结果表明,CFO知识综合性的提高主要通过对企业发展战略的影响而提升企业绩效。本文认为,借助于知识外溢效应,CFO综合性知识背景有助于促进知识共享,改善组织知识存量,从而影响企业绩效。为此,CFO的培养应该着眼于综合性知识结构的形成。     

Reining in auditors: On the dynamics of power surrounding an “innovation” in the regulatory space

In the aftermath of Enron and the collapse of Arthur Andersen, new “independent” institutions were created to oversee financial auditing. Based on a modified version of Lukes’ multidimensional model of power, we first investigate how the creation of the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB) has affected the dynamics of power among the main players enlisted in Canada’s regulation of public accounting. Our findings strengthen the view that a “form of allegiance” was, at the time of data collection, developing between CPAB and the largest Canadian accounting firms. Through a second analytical movement, we extend the boundaries of our argument, showing that patterns of resistance against the logic of arm’s length regulation operate in a variety of audit regulatory sites. Our conclusion points, in particular, to the spatial gap - and incidentally the limitations - of any attempt to control and supervise a globalized industry from a national or regional perspective.     

首席财务官与首席执行官薪酬的相关性研究——基于沪深两市946家上市公司的数据

在现代公司治理结构中,首席财务官（CFO）发挥着愈来愈重要的职能和作用,在一些方面具有与首席执行官（CEO）同等重要的法律地位。制定合理的CFO薪酬政策,对于协调CFO与CEO在公司治理中的关系,促使CFO积极履行在公司战略决策方面的重要职责具有重要意义。文章以我国946家上市公司为研究样本,全面地对CFO与CEO薪酬的差异及其相关性进行了研究.