诚信纳税:税收伦理的金规则

确立道德金规则的目的是寻求价值共识,提供解决价值冲突的道德思维方式,夯实各类制度的伦理价值基础。从税收伦理角度审视,诚信纳税是税收伦理的金规则。诚信纳税是各类纳税人的最普遍的一条价值共识原则,是解决税收领域价值冲突和制定各类税收政策法律的伦理基础。当诚信纳税伦理被培育成一种社会资本时,会提高社会纳税意识,降低税收治理成本。     

银行监管合规成本的测度方法研究

在银行监管成本中,合规成本对银行业的经营和发展影响甚大,也是衡量监管效率的主要因素。因此,本文借鉴国际上有关国家监管当局采用的前沿做法,研究舍规成本的测度方法问题。本文论述了合规成本的基本测度思路、测度方法、需剔除的重复因素、数据收集步骤和数据分析过程,并通过分析国外有关机构的调查情况,简要说明有关测度方法的可行性和测度结论的价值性。     

Compliance with flexible accounting standards

We examine to what extent firms adhere to the stated intent of noncompulsory accounting standards when reporting for intercorporate investments. The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in Norway strongly recommend that a 20-50% intercorporate investment is accounted for by the equity method rather than the cost method, if the investment is long-term, of strategic importance, and involves significant influence. Even so, we find that the actual use of the equity method is independent of the duration of the investment period, the fraction of equity held, its recent growth, and the investor's voting power. This lack of compliance suggests that one cannot use the observed choice between the cost method and the equity method to infer the underlying characteristics of the investment as specified by the accounting standard. Flexible GAAP may therefore not induce firms to disclose the information that the GAAP were designed to produce.     

金色阳光——包商艺术团维也纳演出随感

2010年2月1日晚7点半至9点半,维也纳金色大厅,包商艺术团草原放歌——2010年维也纳中国新春音乐会圆满成功。中外观众经久不息的掌声及现场欢快热烈的气氛,使我又一次身临其境地感受到了蒙古族音乐的巨大魅力。虽然我不是     

借鉴税收遵从理论提高纳税人税收遵从度

税收遵从体现了现代公共财政体制下税制优化目标,涵盖了现代社会公民自我意识与国家意识提升的基本思想,成为衡量现代税收管理绩效的一个关键标准。从理论和实践来看,研究税收遵从对于从根本上提高税收征管的质量和效率,促进税收事业的健康发展是有深远意义的。     

32条点金术

2010年6月12日,农历五月初一,宜:祭祀、交易、收财。这一天,山东省财税工作会议召开,确定山东省转方式、调结构、增财源攻坚战开战。山东一直是一个讲究稳重的省份。无论是财政政策上,还是财源建设上,一直是稳扎稳打,一步一步往前走,根基扎实。     

银行如何面对合规性挑战

合规风险正成为银行所面临的主要风险之一。创造一个最优的合规管理框架成为银行与监管部门向前迈进的最佳途径,发展和实施这种合规管理框架,对于金融机构和合规部门的挑战不亚于实施巴塞尔新资本协议所面临的挑战。     

Monitoring Legal Compliance: The Growth of Compliance Committees*

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations’ (COSO) framework outlines three objectives of internal control. This paper addresses the third and least emphasized component, compliance with laws and regulations. We address the growing importance of board‐level oversight of legal compliance and the emerging role of a separate board committee dedicated to the compliance function. A recent COSO project emphasizes the importance of the monitoring function; COSO observes that many companies are not conducting this function effectively. We examine the use of a board‐level compliance committee to monitor legal compliance. We also discuss the roles of corporate counsel and internal auditors in assisting with monitoring. Our results show that over the last 15 years a growing percentage of S&P 500 firms have adopted a board‐level compliance committee. Internal auditors’ specialized training and expertise in the areas of monitoring and prevention would complement the company’s legal expertise and be of significant value to boards of directors in helping them fulfill their compliance oversight responsibilities.     

Nonoptimality of the Friedman Rule with Capital Income Taxation

This paper studies the efficient taxation of money and factor income in intertemporal optimizing growth models with infinite horizons, transaction costs technologies, and flexible prices. Second‐best optimality calls for a positive inflation tax and a nonzero capital income tax when there are restrictions on taxation of production factors or profits/rents. Our cases of nonoptimality of the Friedman rule—which differ from those of Mulligan and Sala‐i‐Martin (1997) and extend substantially those of Schmitt‐Grohè and Uribe (2004a) —follow from the violation of the Diamond and Mirrlees (1971) principle on production efficiency.     

论道合规

目前,加强合规建设,规避合规风险受到许多商业银行的关注。本次银行家论坛邀请到几位上海银行业从事银行合规工作的专业人士,共同交流他们在合规工作中的经验,以飨读者。     

Monitoring Compliance with IFRS: Some Insights from the French Regulatory System

European Union Regulation 1606/2002 is aimed at improving the quality of financial reporting and developing a single capital market in Europe. Nevertheless, these goals cannot necessarily be achieved solely by making a requirement for EU companies to use International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and the EU has sought to create a mechanism to oversee the appropriate application of these standards. In this paper, we describe and comment on the methods used by the French stock exchange regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), for monitoring compliance with the national reporting rules as this bears upon the issue of enforcement of IFRS in Europe as from 2005. The AMF has been chosen in our study because of its extensive experience with the review of financial statements of listed companies. Our paper draws on qualitative interviews with people involved directly in scrutinizing financial information at the AMF as well as on the experience gained from attachment to the AMF's Accounting Division. While there is recent research that addresses the issues on enforcement of accounting standards, there is still a lack of studies which discuss the relevance and effectiveness of the methods used to monitor compliance with accounting standards. Our paper may be of interest to different groups of participants including regulatory oversight bodies, auditors, producers and users of financial information in the capital markets.     

Compliance with goodwill-related mandatory disclosure requirements and the cost of equity capital

Theory suggests that increased levels of corporate disclosure lead to a decrease in cost of equity via the reduction of estimation risk. We examine compliance levels with International Financial Reporting Standard 3 Business Combinations and International Accounting Standard 36 Impairments of Assets mandated goodwill-related disclosure and their association with firms’ implied cost of equity capital (ICC). Using a sample of European firms for the period 2008–2011, we find a median compliance level of about 83% and significant differences in compliance levels across firms and time. Non-compliance relates mostly to proprietary information and information that reveals managers’ judgement and expectations. Overall, we find a statistically significant negative relationship between the ICC and compliance with mandated goodwill-related disclosure. Further, we split the sample between firms meeting (or not) market expectations about the recognition of a goodwill impairment loss in a given year to study whether variation in compliance levels mainly plays a confirmatory or a mediatory role. We find the latter: higher compliance levels matter only for the sub-sample of firms that do not meet market expectations regarding goodwill impairment. Finally, our results hold only in countries where enforcement is strong.     

保险投资和实物黄金投资的抗通货膨胀能力比较

通货膨胀是现代经济的一个普遍现象,也是投资者在投资过程中面临的重要风险之一.通货膨胀的主要危害是削弱投资者实际购买力,从而使投资者对投资产品的信心减弱,购买投资产品意愿降低.近年来,我国经济呈现不稳定状态,CPI指数的跌宕波动显示出通货膨胀的压力,因此,如何在不同时期选择不同投资方式来抵抗通货膨胀对个人投资的影响尤为重...     

CSFB:黄金时代的巨人

今年1月18日,瑞士信贷第一波士顿(Credit Suisse First Boston,简称CSFB)宣布,同意出售旗下的珀欣金融服务公司(Pershing Financial Services)给纽约银行(The Bank of New York),纽约银行斥资20亿美元现金收购;珀欣金融服务公司是美国第二大交易处理和清算银行,因连年亏损已经成为其母公司瑞士信贷第一波士顿的严重负担.瑞士信贷第一波士顿行政总裁约翰·麦克表示,出售珀欣公司,将会令该集团更集中核心服务.     

开展银行合规管理工作的几点思考

美国的次贷危机引发的全球金融危机,其原因是多方面的,最主要的是美国新自由主义自由放任的政策主张,过度发展虚拟经济、金融衍生品泛滥和监管缺失,导致资本的贪婪、华尔街的道德风险,最终引发危机。危机说明了银行监管的重要性,同时更加说明了银行自身经营管理过程中加强合规管理显得尤为重要。本文结合建设银行的合规工作实践,分析银行合规管理工作存在的问题,并对应用科学发展观指导银行开展合规管理工作提出解决意见。     

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

Golden parachutes (GPs) have attracted substantial attention from investors and public officials for more than two decades. We find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative abnormal stock returns both during and subsequent to the period surrounding their adoption. This finding raises the possibility that even though GPs facilitate some value-increasing acquisitions, they do have, on average, an overall negative effect on shareholder wealth; this effect could be due to GPs weakening the force of the market for control and thereby increasing managerial slack, and/or to GPs making it attractive for executives to go along with some value-decreasing acquisitions that do not serve shareholders' long-term interests. Our findings have significant implications for ongoing debates on GPs and suggest the need for additional work identifying the types of GPs that drive the identified correlation between GPs and reduced shareholder value.     

“黄金分割”与领导力

在自然界中,有许多现象人们已经感知了,但不一定完全掌握其规律,有的已经掌握了的规律也不一定完全自觉地运用好,黄金分割定律就是这样一种让许多人痴迷,而又有许多人不甚了解的定律。黄金分割的科学价值不可低估黄金分割又称黄金律,是指事物各部分间一定的数学比例关系,即将整体一分为二,较小部分与较大部分之比等于较大部分与整体之比,其比值为0.618,这种比例关系最能适应人的感受,引起人的美感,适合地球上多数动植物的生长要求,因此被称为黄金分割。     

呼唤金色的开放

如果你选择在一个交易日步入中国外汇交易中心二楼的交易厅,你会看到挂于墙上的大屏幕出现一条黄金价格和成交量的曲线,这是对从上午10时始的模拟交易的记录.你会看到这样一些随机数据:Au99.99品种,当前价73.45元;Au99.95品种,当前价72.81元--这就是以市场规则界定、随市场而动的即时价格,这个价格以后将成为中国金价的重要参考指标.这里正是上海黄金交易所的所在地,根据交易所的记录,从确定的"指导价"启动,现在交易的收盘价和国际市场的金价已经十分接近.