A Corporate Social Responsibility Framework for Accounting Research

Over the past two decades, there has been growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) among accounting scholars. As a testament to this growing interest, two review papers on CSR were published last year in accounting journals. Implicitly guiding hypothesis development in CSR studies is the notion of a conflict between shareholders and stakeholders. We define CSR in terms of a win-win situation for shareholders and stakeholders: a CSR framework for strategic business purposes. We provide evidence supporting this outlook for CSR using cases pertaining to specific companies and findings from archival empirical studies. According to our CSR framework, resources allocated for CSR activity also help propel business strategy; as such, it is difficult to isolate CSR inputs and/or outputs due to problems of non-separability and multidimensionality. While measurement is a challenge, our framework nonetheless opens up various promising avenues for future research.     

我国上市公司社会责任会计信息市场反应实证分析

本文抽样分析了我国上市公司社会责任会计信息披露的现状,同时通过建立上市公司对利益相关者承担的社会责任贡献的指标体系,揭示了我国深市、沪市所有上市公司的真实社会贡献,并实证分析了市场对这一信息的反应。实证结果表明:现阶段这一信息与我国上市公司价值的相关性不强,但是,由于行业特色的存在,不同行业之间的价值相关性迥异。这一实证结果给我国社会责任会计的发展带来了一些有意义的启示。     

基于注册会计师关联关系的会计监管体系博弈分析

本文运用博弈分析方法 ,针对目前不同的注册会计师选择权关联关系对其独立性的影响 ,构建了不同的会计监管博弈模型 ,分析比较了各种模型的结构特征及其现实背景 ,提出了具有最优会计监管效果的路径选择。通过对模型的分析和现实的考察 ,本文对建立“三位一体”会计监管体系提出相应政策建议。     

加强会计指数研究 全面提升会计在经济社会发展中的影响力

会计信息对于真实、准确、完整地反映企业财务状况、经营成果和现金流量具有重要作用。2010年,财政部王军副部长将会计指数作为中国特色会计体系的重要组成部分,向世界会计同行做了阐述。会计指数作为经过提炼的企业会计信息,可以帮助政府及时深入地了解微观经济基础,把握宏观经济走势,做好宏观经济决策。本文立足于基本的会计理论与宏观经济理论,尝试构建基于企业会计信息的一套指数体系,这个指数体系包括宏观的价值创造会计指数、中观的行业评价会计指数以及微观的企业投资价值指数。最后,本文提出了推进会计指数研究工作的相关建议。     

基于动态发展视角的会计社会责任研究

时代变迁,科技进步,各行各业的生产力不断提高,极大促进我国经济高速发展,为了满足国内经济发展需求,作为经济核算工具的会计也在快速发展,提供经济发展决策所需的会计信息.在这一过程中,会计社会责任范畴也在不断外延和扩展.然而,纵观企业财务丑闻事件频繁发生,与会计的社会责任意识宣传不到位以及会计人不当行为息息相关.为了明确会计的社会责任,提高会计人履行社会责任意识,论文将从界定会计的社会责任范畴开始论述,其次阐述会计社会责任的发展和结构,再次描述会计社会责任履行现状并提出存在问题,最后提出对策,希望对推动会计社会责任更好的执行起到一定的推动作用.     

Teaching Innovative Accounting Topics: Student Reaction to a Course in Social Accounting

Accounting students experience degree programmes with a fairly ‘traditional’ range of topics that are taught with an emphasis on technique and learning the ‘status quo’. To the extent that a topic may challenge this pattern by emphasizing new concepts, questioning existing concepts, being more concerned with what accounting ‘might be’ rather than current practice, or some combination of these, some topics may be considered ‘innovative’ additions to the curriculum. Social accounting is an innovative accounting topic that has attracted considerable attention in the literature. This paper reports on an implementation dilemma encountered in a course on social accounting resulting from a clash between preferred student learning attributes and those embodied in social accounting. The use of action oriented teaching strategies to counteract this dilemma is identified. Similar problems and solutions may be applicable for other innovative accounting topics.     

企业社会责任会计信息披露体系构建的思考

社会责任会计的出现,极大地推动了企业从微观利益目标向宏观利益目标的转移,对社会经济的可持续发展以及构建和谐社会、环境友好型社会都具有很强的战略意义,揭示并报告社会责任相关信息,己经成为产业界、会计界的共识。文章着重分析了企业在社会责任信息披露的现状,并针对存在的问题提出了社会责任会计信息披露体系的构建和相应对策。     

Factors That Affect Understanding of Social Responsibility Accounting*

Many social responsibility/sustainable development (SR/SD) issues affecting accounting policies and standards will have to be addressed by present and future accountants. This paper investigates qualitative factors that may impede the learning of, and attitudes toward, SR/SD. While Gordon (1998) examined exposure to SR/SD, the present study contributes to the literature in several ways. First, to overcome one of the limitations of Gordon's study, noted by her, matched pair responses (n = 198) to pre‐ and post‐study questionnaires are employed in this study. These responses are analyzed using t‐statistics, cluster analysis, and multivariate analysis. Second, three factors not previously examined that may affect learning of SR/SD (number of economics courses taken, gender, and grade point average) are explored in this paper. The positive conclusion is that exposure to SR/SD had more influence on learning, understanding, and attitudes than did pre‐existing demographic and educational background variables with the exception of grade point average. As a surrogate for intelligence or ability to learn, grade point average was found to be highly significant in a multivariate model. An appreciation that ability to learn affects understanding and attitudes is important for instructors in both continuing professional education and university/college accounting.     

企业社会责任会计信息披露的研究

社会责任会计是会计学的一个新分支,它要求企业在追求经济利益的同时,也必须注重社会效益。我国应尽快建立社会责任会计准则和制度,实施企业社会责任审计制度,编制独立的社会责任会计报告,以促进我国经济与社会的和谐发展。     

论社会救助法对纵向府际关系的调整

社会救助作为一项全国性公共物品,其主要的供给责任属于我国各级人民政府。社会救助法的公共治理应对国家权力的社会化,对该领域纵向府际关系的调整应当树立的理念是协同合作而非管制竞争。我国现行社会救助法制体系对纵向府际关系的调整呈现“事权与财力倒置”的趋势。这既造成行政权力错位,也给公共资源配置均等化带来挑战。建立合作型社会救助纵向府际关系需要明确各级政府具体职能,建立纵向府际协同机制,规范财政转移支付法定程序,这也是社会救助法实现公共治理的必经之路。     

社会保险关系转移接续问题研究

近年来,社会保险关系转移接续出现困难.本文剖析了当前养老保险关系转移难深层次原因,分析基本养老保险关系转移与劳动者权益保护的关系,揭示养老保险关系"转移难"对于劳动者权益可能的损害以及对人力资源市场一体化的不利影响;运用经济学原理分析养老保险关系"转移难"的制度原因以及相关的经济利益关系.本文从政策层面上提出养老保险关系转移接续可操作性办法,并提出了几点建议:提高社会统筹层次,较大范围的保障社会保险关系转移顺畅;明确中央和地方责任,建立中央财政社会保险关系转移结算机构;制定符合农民工特点的养老保险关系转移政策;注重解决机关企事业人员流动引发的养老保险关系接续问题;加快"金保工程建设"步伐,建立全国社会保障网络中心.     

企业会计舞弊的社会环境因子探析

社会活动存在于社会环境之中，社会环境制约着社会活动。同样，企业会计舞弊萌芽、产生、蔓延于一定的社会环境之中。当社会环境利于企业会计舞弊生存发育时，企业会计舞弊便不以人的意志为转移，来势凶猛，甚至愈演愈烈；当社会环境不利于企业会计舞弊生存发育时，企业会计舞弊就会自然枯竭。所以，研究企业会计舞弊的社会环境因子，对于遏制企业会计舞弊有着重要的意义。     

Multi-Period Lead Relations between Price-to-Book Ratios and Accounting Rates-of-Returns: Korean Evidence

Using a sample of Korean firms, this paper investigates the relations between price-to-book ratios and their determinants identified by Ohlson's (1995) accounting-based valuation model. A particular emphasis is placed on thequestion of whether and how the impact of future accounting rates-of-returns on current price-to-book ratios decays within a finite time horizon. Our results reveal that any current price-to-book ratio is significantly relatedto current and future accounting rates-of-returns over the five subsequent years.The relation between the two is stronger when accrual earnings are used for measuring accounting rates-of-returns than it is when cash flows or dividend flows are used. Further, the strength of this multi-period lead relation tends to decrease substantially in magnitude and significance with the time horizon, and becomes insignificant beyond a certain time horizon.     

社会责任信息披露、会计稳健性与融资约束——基于产权异质性的视角

目前关于社会责任信息披露与融资约束之间关系的研究还较少,且未有研究将社会责任信息披露与会计稳健性联系起来,考察二者对融资约束影响的交互效应,这不利于在实务上为企业的决策提供理论指引。本文以我国A股上市公司为样本,区分民营企业和国有企业考察了社会责任信息披露、会计稳健性及融资约束之间的关系,研究发现:(1)社会责任信息披露有助于缓解融资约束,且这种影响主要体现在民营企业中,在国有企业中并不显著;(2)由于资源约束的限制,企业社会责任信息披露与会计稳健性在对融资约束的影响上主要呈现出替代关系;(3)社会责任信息披露对融资约束的影响及其与会计稳健性之间的替代效应主要存在于经济发达地区,在经济发展水平较低的地区并不显著。     

基于企业社会责任的管理会计框架重构

企业社会责任(CSR)的概念是不断演进的。无论围绕风险管理关注CSR对企业价值的影响,还是投资者结合社会责任投资(SRI)再造投资管理新模式,以及结合CSR与SRI的相关性来重新定位公司治理的作用等,均需要完善管理会计系统,进而重构管理会计的新框架。当前,从CSR的伦理观考察管理会计的框架结构是一种比较现实的选择。     

企业社会责任、市场评价与盈余信息含量

社会责任报告可以间接反映企业社会责任的管理水平和投入水平,反映企业的可持续发展能力和责任风险.本文研究发现:社会责任的履行会影响投资者对企业盈利持续性的判断,企业社会责任表现越好,市场评价越高,会计盈余的信息含量也越高.而社会责任战略的制定与实施、社会责任行为的履行以及社会责任信息的披露都将影响市场对企业发展以及盈余信息含量的评价.因此,企业也需要在社会责任战略实施以及信息披露上有所提高.