税收会影响外商投资吗?

记者:在全球利用FDI数量急剧下降的形势下,中国却成为世界上第二大吸引FDI的国家.您认为这其中税收因素对外商投资者的决策有多大的影响?     

注册会计师审计质量的影响因素探讨

随着现代经济社会的不断发展,注册会计师在经济生活中的监督鉴定作用越来越重要,这对审计工作的质量提出了更高的要求和标准.然而,近年来发生的一系列审计诉讼案件促使我们对审计质量给予更高的关注.     

Factors influencing plagiarism by accounting lecturers

This study examines the possible factors affecting plagiarism by accounting lecturers in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, a province in Indonesia. 108 completed questionnaires were quantitatively analyzed. The multiple regression analysis reveals that working pressure and unfair competition significantly influence the intention to undertake plagiarism. These results indicate that Fraud Triangle theory partially explains the phenomenon of plagiarism among accounting lecturers. The main implication of this research is that accounting lecturers have overload works in their daily activities so that they do not have enough time to write scientific works professionally. Another implication is the presence of an unfair competition among accounting lecturers so that in order to meet the publication target, plagiarism becomes a way. The important contribution of this paper is the finding regarding the influences of working pressure and unfair competition on plagiarism by accounting lecturers.     

Factors influencing the performance of foreign-owned banks in New Zealand

This article reviews factors affecting the performance of foreign-owned banks in New Zealand, where they control 99.2% of all banking system assets. Two sets of pooled cross-sectional time-series data—seven banks over the 10-year period 1991–2000 and eight banks over the 8-year period 1991–1998—provided the basis for the econometric analysis. The most important variables for bank performance were the length of time the foreign bank had been in New Zealand and the parent bank's return on assets. This suggests that parent-bank specific ownership advantages are the dominant factor in their subsidiaries’ performance in New Zealand.     

Factors influencing organizations to improve data quality in their information systems

Although managers consider accurate, timely and relevant information as critical to the quality of their decisions, evidence of large variations in data quality abounds. This research examines factors influencing the level of data quality within a target organization. The results indicate that management's commitment to data quality and the presence of data quality champions strongly influence data quality in the target organization. The results also show that the managers of the participating organization are committed to achieving and maintaining high data quality. However, changing work processes and establishing a data quality awareness culture are required to motivate further improvements to data quality.     

Factors influencing final examination performance in large versus small sectons of accounting principles

This study examines the relationship between certain student characteristics and final examination performance in small and large sections of Accounting Principles. Some of the analyses indicated that successful students in the large section had higher GPAs, were further along in their education, and had more experience with and a preference for large sections. Students in the large section, however, sought more outside assistance and believed the large section was detrimental to their learning. No significant success factors could be identified for the small sections. These results suggest that small sections met the needs of a greater variety of students, thus contributing to a lower withdrawal rate — but equal examination performance —of the small section students.     

Factors influencing the profitability of domestic and foreign commercial banks in the European Union

Using bank level data this paper examines how bank's specific characteristics and the overall banking environment affect the profitability of commercial domestic and foreign banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001. The results indicate that profitability of both domestic and foreign banks is affected not only by bank's specific characteristics but also by financial market structure and macroeconomic conditions. All the variables, with the exception of concentration in the case of domestic banks profits, are significant although their impact and relation with profits is not always the same for domestic and foreign banks.     

Factors influencing the role of management accounting in the development of performance measures within organizational change programs

Many companies are undergoing organizational changes encompassing innovative approaches to organizing production processes, restructuring work practices and developing new planning and control mechanisms. This paper explores the role that management accounting played in the development of performance measurement systems within five organizations implementing change programs. The major case study is of a large manufacturing firm undertaking changes which included the development of team structures, the adoption of a customer-focused strategy and the implementation of new performance measurement systems. In this company, a lack of integration of operational performance measures with strategic priorities contributed to poor integration of team activities with overall strategy. The paper proposes five interrelated factors that may help explain the extent to which management accountants contribute to the development of integrated performance measures and change programs. Case evidence drawn from a further four firms is presented to provide some validation of conclusions drawn from the primary case study.     

Factors influencing the preparedness of large unlisted companies to implement adapted International Financial Reporting Standards in Portugal

The Sistema de Normalização Contabilística [SNC] is the Portuguese title for the corpus of International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS] that have been adapted for use in Portugal by unlisted companies. Based on an analytical framework that draws on aspects of new institutional theory, we surveyed 116 large unlisted Portuguese companies in September 2009 to identify factors associated with their preparedness to implement the SNC. Generally, their degree of preparedness was low. Institutional factors that influenced the degree of preparedness positively included the participation of a parent company in conversion procedure decisions, the presence of exclusively Portuguese shareholders, the conduct of export activities, and mimetic behaviors. The results reveal that important insights can be obtained from complementing a study of isomorphic influences with the concepts of resistance and institutional logic. Though coercive and mimetic institutional factors influenced levels of preparedness positively, the preparedness process was undermined by resistance within the Portuguese accounting profession and by the embeddedness of code-law practices in the prevailing logic.     

Managing the demand for health services by adopting patient-centered programs

Recently, the trend to managing the demand of health care services has become more prevalent. Standalone types of demand management programs are patient-centered and support appropriate health care decision making by the consumer. The author examines these types of programs including their benefits and risks.     

The effects of adopting the Balanced Scorecard on shareholder returns

Many firms have adopted the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) as a way to implement strategy and measure firm performance. This paper uses a long-horizon event study methodology to examine the relationship between BSC adoption and shareholder returns. Using a matched pair design, we show that firms who adopt the BSC significantly outperform firms that do not adopt the BSC over a three year period beginning with the year of adoption. Our results are robust for different matching criteria. There is also evidence that firms earn greater excess returns after adoption of the BSC than before. These results provide strong evidence that the BSC is an effective strategic management tool that leads to improved shareholder returns.     

Factors influencing corporate governance disclosures: evidence from Alternative Investment Market (AIM) companies in the UK

This study examines the relationship between company and ownership characteristics and the disclosure level of compliance with Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) recommendations on corporate governance in Alternative Investment Market (AIM) companies. We report clear evidence that compliance increases with company size, board size, the proportion of independent non-executive directors, the presence of turnover revenue, and being formerly listed on the Main Market. However, we find that shell and highly geared AIM companies disclose relatively lower levels of corporate governance than recommended under QCA guidelines. Our findings suggest that market regulators should review the potential impact of the quality of corporate governance in these companies on the future vibrancy of AIM. We find no evidence that ownership structure or the type of Nominated Advisor is related to disclosure of compliance with QCA guidelines. Overall, in a lightly regulated environment such as the AIM market, it seems that companies will ultimately pursue a cost–benefit strategy in voluntarily complying with good corporate governance practice.     

The value-relevance of adopting IFRS: Evidence from 145 NGAAP restatements

Firms listed on stock exchanges within the European Economic Area are required to report consolidated financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) since 2005. The firms that adopted IFRS in 2005 were also required to restate their 2004 financial statements from national GAAP to provide comparable accounting figures. These two sets of financial statements for 2004 are thus based on identical underlying economic activities and are fully specified according to two different reporting regimes. Our sample consists of 145 restatements from Norwegian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (NGAAP) to IFRS for firms listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in Norway. We test whether the IFRS accounting figures correlate more strongly with stock market values than the corresponding NGAAP figures. We find little evidence of increased value-relevance after adopting IFRS when comparing and evaluating the two regimes unconditionally. On the other hand, when evaluating the change in the accounting figures from NGAAP to IFRS, we find evidence that the reconcilement adjustments to IFRS are marginally value-relevant due to increased relevance of the balance sheet and the normalized net operating income. By weighting our sample by firm size, intangible asset intensity and profitability, we learn that the increased value-relevance of the net operating income stems from different reporting of intangible assets. Since more intangible assets are capitalized according to IFRS than NGAAP, our finding is consistent with the view that capitalizing intangible assets is more value-relevant than expensing them as incurred or through goodwill amortization.     

关于外汇金宏系统试点工作的几点思考

目前，国家外汇管理局正在进行外汇金宏系统的试点工作。外汇金宏系统是“金宏工程”（国家重点规划的十二大电子政务系统之一）的外汇局子项，作为国际收支平衡管理信息系统，其主要功能是对企业外汇收支数据的采集、综合查询和统计分析。     

实行消费型增值税必须强化征管

在汇入经济全球化潮流中，我国增值税由生产型转型，已基本形成共识，各国在选择增值税类型时有一定的原则依据和背景。目前我国增值税改革的重要问题应是研讨消费型增值税运行过程中要加强征收管理。增值税的征收管理应包括纳税人登记管理、发票管理、出口退税管理、审计管理等方面。     

Machine learning in individual claims reserving

Machine learning techniques make it feasible to calculate claims reserves on individual claims data. This paper illustrates how these techniques can be used by providing an explicit example in individual claims reserving.