The turnover intentions of information systems auditors

The turnover rate of Information Systems auditors is an emerging problem for the profession. In his study of factors affecting resource allocations to Information Systems Audit departments, Lucy [Lucy, R.F. Factors affecting information systems audit resource allocation decisions. Thesis, The University of Texas, Arlington, 1998.] found that the average Information Systems (IS) auditor has four years of IS Audit experience. Dunmore [Dunmore D.B. Farewell to the information systems audit profession. Internal Auditor 1989; February:42–48.] argues that this high turnover of IS auditors will limit systems audit knowledge. Unlike prior research investigating turnover intentions of IS auditors, this study specifically includes factors that reflect the higher level needs of IS audit professionals. The need to satisfy personal and professional growth exerts a particularly strong influence on IS auditors' turnover intentions. Further, our study confirms that IS auditors' share similar characteristics to other IS professionals rather than with general accountants and auditors. Organizations wanting to retain their IS auditors should provide regular opportunities for their IS auditors to satisfy their personal growth needs.     

The best advice I ever got

A young manager faces an impasse in his career. He goes to see his mentor at the company, who closes the office door, offers the young man a chair, recounts a few war stories, and serves up a few specific pointers about the problem at hand. Then, just as the young manager is getting up to leave, the elder executive adds one small kernel of avuncular wisdom--which the junior manager carries with him through the rest of his career. Such is the nature of business advice. Or is it? The six essays in this article suggest otherwise. Few of the leaders who tell their stories here got their best advice in stereotypical form, as an aphorism or a platitude. For Ogilvy & Mather chief Shelly Lazarus, profound insight came from a remark aimed at relieving the tension of the moment. For Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella, it was an apt comment, made on a snowy day, back when he was a medical resident. For publishing magnate Earl Graves and Starwood Hotels' Barry Sternlicht, advice they received about trust from early bosses took on ever deeper and more practical meaning as their careers progressed. For Goldman Sachs chairman Henry Paulson, Jr., it was as much his father's example as it was a specific piece of advice his father handed down to him. And fashion designer Liz Lange rejects the very notion that there's inherent wisdom in accepting other people's advice. As these stories demonstrate, people find wisdom when they least expect to, and they never really know what piece of advice will transcend the moment, profoundly affecting how they later make decisions, evaluate people, and examine--and reexamine--their own actions.     

企业并购的最优化支付结构博弈

并购支付结构的合理安排,在很大程度上对该并购行为的财富效应与成功概率有着深刻的影响。无论对于主并公司还是目标公司而言,支付工具的选择及其支付组合不同工具比重的安排,从很大程度上决定了并购交易的增值目标是否能够得以顺利实现。但是,给基于不同交易主体的不同利益基点,主并企业和目标企业在支付结构设计的目标上却不尽相同。     

银行业监管信息采集的最优模式选择

当前,我国银行业监管在方法、技术、广度和深度方面与发达国家相比有较大差距.中国银监会成立后,为了在监管理念、监管方式和监管手段上有新突破,不断缩小与金融发达国家的差距,提出了"采取数据大集中的模式,建设与我国银行业总体状况相适应的银行业监管信息系统"的目标.监管信息采集作为整个系统运行的起点,是信息处理、分析和风险预警的基础,其采集标准、传递路径等模式的选择直接影响着监管信息系统的效率和质量.本文从分析监管信息采集现状和存在的问题入手,力求找到监管信息采集的最优模式,为"大集中"监管信息系统的构建提供参考.     

How the best of the best get better and better

What is the real key to elite performance? According to sports psychologist turned executive coach Graham Jones, star athletes and businesspeople share one defining trait: mental toughness. People who become champions aren't necessarily more gifted than others; they're just masters at managing pressure, meticulously tackling goals, and driving themselves to stay ahead of the competition. Jones, who has advised Olympic medalists and Fortune 500 executives, sees many parallels between the arenas of business and sports, especially in the behavior of people who rise to the very top. These stars have learned to love pressure because it spurs them to achieve. Inner-focused and self-directed, they concentrate on their own excellence and forget the rest. They don't get distracted by others' victories or failures--or even by a personal tragedy off the field of competition. Like Darren Clarke, the golfer who inspired his team to a Ryder Cup victory shortly after the death of his beloved wife, elite performers are masters of compartmentalization. Superstars rebound from defeats more easily, Jones observes, because they don't engage in self-flagellation. One of the keys to their success is a relentless focus on the long-term and the careful planning of short-term goals that will help them attain major milestones. Competition doesn't daunt elite performers; they just use it to challenge themselves--and they never stop striving. Even after becoming benchmarks in their fields, stars keep their edge by reinventing themselves. Star business people and athletes also recognize the importance of celebrating their wins. It's not just the emotional reward that's important, however: The very best performers also analyze the factors underpinning their success. That helps them build their expertise and their confidence.     

The next best thing to an audit practice set

The article describes an assignment used as a substitute for a practice case in the first auditing course. The assignment requires students to examine a model set of audit working papers and answer twenty questions relating to the working papers. The assignment appears to accomplish many of the teaching objectives of a practice case, yet it takes students only about two hours to complete.     

The impact of undergraduate personal finance education on individual financial literacy,attitudes and intentions

Financial literacy education features prominently among the policy options available to improve personal financial decision‐making. Notwithstanding calls to expand delivery of financial literacy units at university level, such offerings are relatively rare with little evaluation. We provide an evaluation of the impact on financial literacy, financial attitudes and financial behaviour intentions of a semester unit in personal finance delivered to undergraduates at an Australian university, carefully controlling for confounding effects in the analysis. We report increases in objective and subjective financial literacy and an additional gender effect. Contrary to previous speculation, we do not find overconfidence as an associated outcome.     

The impact of flexible benefits plans on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intentions

This study assesses the dimensionality of employee attitudes toward flexible benefits plans and the impact of these plans on measures of job satisfaction, commitment and turnover intent. The study points to the need for more work on the measurement of employee attitudes toward flexible benefits and on the nomological framework of flexible benefits as a construct in compensation research.     

Making the best of best-of

This paper extends the analytical valuation of options on the maximum or the minimum of several risky assets in several directions. The first extension consists in including more assets in the payoff and making the latter more flexible by adding knock-in and knock-out provisions. The second extension consists in pricing these contracts in a multivariate jump-diffusion framework allowing for a stochastic two-factor term structure of interest rates. In both cases, explicit formulae are provided which yield prices quasi instantaneously and with utmost precision. Hedge ratios can be easily and accurately derived from these formulae.     

发挥劳动模范作用 建设国际一流银行

劳动模范是时代的楷模，员工的旗帜，是先进生产力和先进生产关系的代表，是国家、民族和企业的宝贵财富。劳动模范代表的不是一种个人行为，是一种品牌，一种文化，一个时代的记录；劳模精神是企业文化的核心和精髓，是一种能够代表社会大多数具有拼搏与创新精神的力量。     

Beliefs affecting additional investment intentions of mutual fund clients

In this article, we aim to examine mutual fund investors’ behaviour in decision-making situations and to analyse future investment decisions via a path model approach. Investors were divided into different groups based on the risk and distribution channel used, and the differences in their investment intentions were examined. The study used empirical survey data collected from the clients of a mutual fund company owned by a Finnish banking group. Loyalty to the common banking group dominated the explanation in the whole model. The safety of the investment was important for branch office investors, whereas obtaining a good return was important for internet investors. Ultimately, explanatory power was highest for the branch office investors and lowest for the internet investors with equity funds. Most investors intended to invest more, and thus there was little variance to be explained. The results indicate that branch office investors with money market funds require more information about the investment business, although it is difficult to see who would be responsible for providing that information. This study has implications for both the theory and management of financial services.     

Sponsoring departments: Good intentions,poor performance

The National Audit Act does not provide quite the role for the Comptroller & Auditor General that the original St John Stevas bill envisaged. Nevertheless, his recent investigation of the methods used by Departments to monitor and control the industries for which they are responsible shows that even his restricted remit can carry him into some hitherto unexplored areas. In the first report of this kind, covering the Departments of Energy, Industry, and Transport, Gordon Downey concentrated on the limited question of how well the system of control based on the 1978 White Paper was actually working.

As David Heald and David Steel argue in PUBLIC MONEY, June 1981, that system has come to be dominated by the essentially short‐run control mechanism, external financing limits. Not surprisingly, therefore, the investigation concentrated heavily on that. What it reveals is just how elastic this system of control is and just how weak a grip it affords Departments over what the industries actually do.     

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寻求最佳解决方案

一场九小时的谈判 2012年4月1 7日晚上九点半,中国出口信用保险公司(简称:中国信保)会议室仍是灯火通明,会议桌上凌乱地放着一瓶一瓶的空矿泉水瓶,会议室内的白板上,写满了一个一个的谈判方案.谈判室外,不时开门从会议室内走出谈判的人员,或私下讨论,或是电话对外请示.     

The effects of decision aid structural restrictiveness on cognitive load,perceived usefulness,and reuse intentions

As accounting environments become increasingly automated through information technology support systems, the underlying systems are increasingly restrictive in an effort to direct user behavior and decision making. However, consistent with the theory of technology dominance, restrictive systems have been found to dominate users' decision processes and to have a detrimental effect when decisions require knowledge from outside the system's capability. This study expands upon this research through an examination of users' preferences for more (less) restrictive systems based on their own level of domain knowledge. Incorporating theory on task technology fit, we theorize that users with less knowledge will prefer to be dominated by the system, while users with greater levels of knowledge will prefer a system that provides the user with a level of control over the decision process rather than submitting entirely to the decision aid's control. These theorizations are empirically tested through an experimental design that varies the level of systems restrictiveness across groups of novice and experienced participants. The results confirm that novice (experienced) participants find a highly restrictive system substantially (minimally) reduces cognitive load, increases (decreases) usefulness of the decision aid, and strengthens (weakens) the intention to reuse the system in the future. The results add an important piece to understanding the effect of restrictive systems in that the users that are most susceptible to dominance by decision aids are the users most willing to adopt a restrictive system that reduces the effort they must put forth and in turn reduces the knowledge they accrue from using the system.     

Towards a conceptual model of whistle-blowing intentions among external auditors

Whistle-blowing has received considerable attention in the ethics literature. However, following the collapse of Arthur Andersen in the Enron debacle, whistle-blowing within audit firms has taken on greater importance. Given the profession's requirements to be confidential, independent and to act in the public interest (e.g. Sarbanes–Oxley Act, 2002), there is a need for a model that is specific to the audit profession (e.g. Louwers, Ponemon, & Radtke, 1997), and in particular, that addresses auditors' whistle-blowing intentions. This paper presents a conceptual model on whistle-blowing intentions among external auditors where an auditor's individual factors (attitudes toward whistle-blowing, perceived behavioural control, independence commitment, personal responsibility for reporting and personal cost of reporting) have a direct influence on his or her intentions to whistle-blow, but are moderated by isomorphic factors (perceived organisational support and team norms) and issue-specific factors (perceived moral intensity). Using justice and institutional theories, the proposed model anticipates that whistle-blowing within an audit firm produces both positive and negative consequences to society, the audit firm and the individual whistle-blower. However, where audit firms have adequate formal supporting mechanisms for reporting wrongdoings to internal and external parties, the negative effects and personal costs of reporting will be minimised.     

Factors affecting investment intentions: A consumer behaviour perspective

The purpose of this study is to examine investors’ decision-making from the perspective of a consumer using constructs commonly found in the consumer behaviour field. An investment intentions model incorporating product knowledge, product involvement, risk and uncertainty avoidance, and mediated by perceived risk and uncertainty, was developed and analysed using structural equation modelling. The research found that product knowledge and product involvement had the greatest impact on intentions, suggesting the applicability of these constructs in finance research. Perceived risk was the only mediating construct. The model explained more than 60 per cent of the variation in intentions. A major contribution of this research came from the development of an investment intentions model to examine retail investors’ investment decision-making processes from a consumer behaviour perspective. It helps practitioners to develop a better understanding of the factors that impact on their clients’ intentions to invest in the stock market. This study is the first to include a set of consumer behaviour constructs in an investment intentions model that was not examined before, despite the close relationship between behavioural finance and consumer behaviour that includes elements of psychology and sociology in individual decision-making.     

Students' beliefs,attitudes and intentions to major in accounting

This study extends the literature that uses the theory of planned behaviour in examining the factors that impact on students' intentions to major in accounting and non-accounting disciplines. A survey of a sample of business students enrolled in an introductory accounting course in a New Zealand University was conducted to gather data about their intended academic majors, and their beliefs and attitudes towards majoring in accounting and non-accounting. The results show that three factors (personal, referents, and control) are determinants of students' intention to major in accounting or other business disciplines. Further analysis revealed that the students' major intentions are influenced by important referents' perceptions. In particular, parents appear to have a stronger influence on students' intentions to major in accounting. Comparisons of differential personal perceptions by accounting and non-accounting majors revealed that accounting majors hold positive perceptions of some of the qualities of the study of accounting and the accounting profession. Significant differences were also found in the control perception between accounting and non-accounting major students.     

“新国九条”的最大亮点在于强制退市

＂新国九条＂能够明确提出＂对欺诈发行的上市公司实行强制退市＂,这就表现中国政府清楚地看到了股市问题所在     

危机中坚持做最好的自己

2008年以来,全球经历了一场前所未有的金融危机,其波及范围之广、影响程度之深、冲击强度之大为20世纪30年代以来所罕见.在过去两年里,由美国次贷危机引发的金融危机穿透资本市场、货币市场和信贷市场,从金融领域扩散到了实体经济领域,从局部发展到全球,给世界各国经济发展和人民生活带来了严重影响.受全球金融危机的影响,国内银行面临着很大的风险和压力,银行信用卡业务也面临着严峻的市场挑战.信用卡坏账和风险增加,跨国银行卡公司对国内信用卡市场的争夺更为激烈,因经济景气程度降低造成社会消费意愿下降,信用卡交易增速放缓.