15亿多美元应对环境社会挑战的机制创新

世界银行执行董事会批准了4个新的中国贷款项目,使得世行2008财年（2007年6月30日～2008年6月30日）给中国提供的项目贷款总额达到15．13亿美元。     

亚行11亿美元贷款支持河内至昆明的公路建设

亚洲开发银行将向越南提供11亿美元贷款,用于建设一条244公里（151英里）的现代化公路,该公路将连接越南河内与中国边境城市老街。这笔贷款也是迄今为止亚行批准的单笔融资金额最高的项目。目前,从中国的昆明到河内,客车需要行驶两天时间,     

The new work of the nonprofit board

Too often, the board of a nonprofit organization is little more than a collection of high-powered people engaged in low-level activities. But that can change, the authors say, if trustees are willing to discover and take on the new work of the board. When they perform the new work, a board's members can significantly advance the institution's mission and long-term welfare. Doing the new work requires a board to engage in new practices. First, the board must go beyond rubber-stamping management's proposals and find out what issues really matter to the institution. It can do that by making the CEO paint the big picture of the organization's strategic concerns, by understanding key stakeholders, by consulting experts, and by deciding what needs to be measured in order to judge the institution's performance. Second, a board doing the new work must take action: the board must not only set policy but also work with management to implement it. Third, the board must go beyond strictly functional organization: the new work requires flexibility and encourages ad hoc arrangements. Finally, board meetings--where boards underperform most visibly--should be driven by goals, not by processes. The authors give many examples of boards that have successfully embraced the new work. The stakes are high: if boards demonstrate that they can change effectively, the professional staff at the institutions they serve just may follow suit.     

对商家而言,预付费产品构建了客户忠诚度 --ISO的机会

在美国，预付费产品正在源源不断地流向市场，并且产生了预付费产品过剩的问题。这些产品中有许多具有很容易识别的应用；也有一些则更需要宣传和讲解它的应用，因为该类产品的应用就消费而言，需要通过学习才会使用。毫无疑义，预付费长途电话卡就是流传最广泛和消费最熟悉的产品。     

The role of organizational forms in nonprofit firms' real earnings management: Evidence from nonprofit hospitals in Taiwan

Using a sample of 319 Taiwan's nonprofit hospital-years over the period of 2005–2010, we uncover evidence that nonprofit hospitals engage in real activity manipulation to meet earnings benchmarks through both core operating- and non-revenue-generating- expenditures. More importantly, we provide novel insight into the role of organizational forms in real earnings management for the nonprofit hospital sector. While private hospitals manipulate expenditures significantly upward or downward to achieve specific net income benchmarks, public hospitals, which are characterized by weaker financial incentives, manipulate earnings less extensively. We further find that, among private hospitals, real activity management is more pronounced in the non-religious group, suggesting that entity-level religiosity is likely to deter undesirable behavior.     

The use and consequences of perquisite types in nonprofit organizations

We document perquisite use in the nonprofit sector, the determinants of that use, and the ensuing consequences. Relative to the for-profit sector, the nonprofit sector is characterized by a lack of residual ownership rights and less detailed disclosure requirements, factors that have the potential to influence this piece of the compensation package. Using a sample of over 126,000 organization-year observations from 2008 to 2018, we document that approximately 24% of organizations report providing one or more of their executives with perquisites. We find that perks are more likely in larger nonprofits with excess endowments and fewer governance policies, and less likely at organizations with more outside monitors. We also find that perk disclosure has a negative impact on future donations. However, when we decompose our analysis by type of perk, we find evidence that some perks have a positive effect on future donations. Our results are robust to a variety of alternative formulations and provide useful insights for nonprofit regulators, boards, and donors.     

The role of the paid preparer in nonprofit reporting quality

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the preparer of the Form 990 influences the Form 990 reporting quality. Currently, the Form 990 is the only widely available source of governance and financial information for nonprofit organizations. The leading rater of nonprofit organizations, Charity Navigator, relies primarily on information from the Form 990 in developing their ratings. We identify misreporting by utilizing five measures of reporting quality. We find organizations that hire an outside accounting firm to prepare the Form 990 report higher quality financial information than organizations that choose to prepare the Form 990 in house. Interestingly, the size of the accounting firm is not associated with the quality of Form 990 reporting with the exception that paid preparers who are sole proprietors are more likely to misreport. Further exploration reveals that paid preparers who file more returns are less likely to misreport indicating that specialization is associated with more accurate reporting on Form 990. Our study contributes to the literature by using multiple reporting measures to examine the impact of paid preparers on the reporting quality of 990s. Furthermore, our study is the first to consider how specialization affects the accuracy of 990 returns.     

亚行与18家银行签署1亿美元创新性B类贷款协议

亚洲开发银行(简称:亚行)将与18家银行合作,帮助中国水务集团有限公司(中国水务集团)在中国的中小型城市改善供水系统,提高用水效率。各方已经签署了1亿美元的B类贷款协议。B类贷款是亚行为该项目提供的2亿美元一揽子融资的一部分,该项目还包括一笔亚行提供的1亿美元贷款。通过B类贷款结构,参与银行将与亚行共享其优先债权人地位。在该项目下,中国水务集团将接管此前市政府所拥有的市政供水设施,改造供水管道,为所有用户安装水表,引入商业管理经验,以提升供水安全。该贷款将使得包括贫困家庭在内的500万用户直接受益,目     

中国资管的历史性机遇

在以"依法治国与资产管理市场改革"为主题的中国财富管理50人论坛第三届年会上,交通银行资产管理中心总裁马续田指出,中国资产管理与全球领先水平差距巨大,必须抓住人民币国际化等历史机遇,稳步迈向国际化、全球化。他说中国资管行业遥望全球巨人中国国内银行理财的发展速度是非常快的,十年时间从零到15万亿人民币,平均每年增长40%。但是与全球的资产管理巨人相比,还有非常大的差距。通过以下几个指标可以看出来。一是AUM的规模。目前中国国内银行最大的资产管理规模两万多亿人民币,相当于三千多亿美元。全球主     

2007年第三季度中国73家企业上市创新记录29家VC/PE支持企业海内外融资138亿美元

选自清科集团SOHU博客 2007年第三季度中国企业上市劲头十足,根据大中华区著名创业投资与私募股权研究、顾问及投资机构清科集团近日发布的《2007年第三季度中国企业上市报告》,2007年第三季度共有73家中国企业在境内外资本市场上市,融资218.56亿美元;其中33家企业在海外各市场上市,融资74.67亿美元;境内资本市场本季度表现超越海外市场,吸引了40家企业上市,融资达143.89亿美元,创历史新高.     

一位华人讲述的斯洛伐克商机

无意中驻留10年后却在异国做官 项汉平先生是浙江青田县人,在欧洲从事餐饮业的华人中,80%是青田县人.比如,西班牙的马德里是华人最多的地方,其中青田人最多,当地的警察不会讲普通话,但会讲青田话.     

The supply of charity services by nonprofit hospitals: motives and market structure

This article studies provision of charity care by private, nonprofit hospitals. We demonstrate that in the absence of large positive income effects on charity care supply, convex preferences for the nonprofit hospital imply crowding out by other private or government hospitals. Extending our model to include impure altruism (rivalry) provides a possible explanation for the previously reported empirical result that both crowding out and income effects on indigent care supply are often weak or insignificant. Empirical analysis of data for hospitals in Maryland provides evidence of rivalry on the supply of charity care.     

南非投资机会诱人

21世纪属于新兴经济国家。对亚洲的跨国公司而言，非洲是一个极有潜力的投资目的地。在过去4年里，非洲大陆经济增长率持续超过5％。食品加工、纺织及服务业正吸引着越来越多的来自中国的投资者。南非是非洲市场的桥头堡，在南非的投资将成为打开非洲市场的绝佳机会。     

雾里看花：云计算中的投融资机会

云计算存在着巨大的投融资机会,但是不确定因素同样巨大     

1亿美元贷款支持中国广东省开展节能试点项目

亚洲开发银行（亚行）贷款支持广东的一项节能试点项目。广东省工业化程度高,该项目将为该省的高耗能用户提供节能技术以促进节能。     

The impact of nonprofit taxes on foreign direct investment: evidence from German multinationals

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the impact of taxes other than profit taxes on both investment and location decisions of multinationals. Besides effects of corporate income taxes, the results confirm significant adverse effects of nonprofit taxes such as property taxes, sales taxes and VAT, and import duties on the level of FDI. However, once country-specific fixed effects are included, most of the effects of nonprofit taxes vanish. This is supported by the analysis of location decisions, where taxes other than corporate income taxes are not found to exert any adverse effects on the location probability in a setting with country-specific fixed effects.      

The Whip Cancer Walk: A case of real earnings management in the nonprofit sector

The Whip Cancer Walk case is designed for students currently learning about nonprofit accounting. Based on a real scenario, you are introduced to an organization that reports only the net proceeds from a series of fundraising walks, instead of both the funds raised and the related costs. The case explores the applicable accounting standards and asks you to consider the appropriate accounting treatment. In this case, you will be asked to consider how the accounting treatment of the walks affects the reported financial numbers, and as a result the rating received from Charity Navigator and the ability to pass the Better Business Bureau’s standards for accountability.     

Making futures research useful: The practitioner's opportunity

Futures research has a vital and practical contribution to make to the business world, to the improvement of marketing strategy. However, futures researchers need to have increased experience in a business environment to be fully aware of the multiplicity of factors to be considered in formulating a plan for marketing strategy and forecasting business events. Ultimately the futurists' greatest contribution is not one of accurate prediction but of orchestration and coordination of ideas from disparate sources.     

金融教育百年大计--大学校长谈金融人才培养

编者按: 教育是根本,这句老话都不知道被说了多少遍.可是,除了大会小会作报告时想起它,真有几个"父母官"当真过、动脑筋过?如今外资进来了,我们才有所悟了.我们终会为过去的"只打雷不下雨"而付出代价.金融业概莫能外.人才的捉襟见肘使我们要重拾这个老问题.本刊特约记者日前采访了我国几所大学的负责人,请他们就中国金融人才教育问题坦诚相见.