中国审计实证研究:1999-2007

中国审计实证研究自1999以来,已经取得了长足的进展。本文拟对国内主要学术刊物发表的审计实证研究文献进行综述,主要考察审计实证研究所得到的结论以及审计实证研究中所存在的不足,以期能为推动中国审计实务工作与审计实证研究的发展提供依据。     

头脑风暴法在舞弊审计中的运用研究:回顾与启示

头脑风暴法有助于解决舞弊审计这一类非结构化问题,在舞弊审计中运用头脑风暴法成为美国注册会计师审计中的一项必要程序,头脑风暴技术也成为审计理论界和实务界关注的一个重点问题。本文对相关研究文献进行了梳理和回顾,总结文献研究发现:舞弊审计适合使用开放式头脑风暴法、循环头脑风暴法和电子头脑风暴法;头脑风暴法不仅有助于审计人员识别更多的舞弊风险因素和提高识别因素的质量,而且能够使审计人员表现得更加谨慎,调高了客户舞弊风险的预期水平;此外,头脑风暴讨论会还能够使审计人员更愿意修改拟实施的实质性测试程序,采取更为有效的舞弊风险应对程序。这些实践经验和研究成果对我国审计实践和审计理论研究都具有重要的借鉴作用。     

现代审计活动中的行为研究

审计作为一种独立的经济监督活动,具体表现为审计人员个体与群体组织的一系列有序的行为,而审计行为与其它行为一样,需要进行科学与合理的规划、领导、组织和控制。因此,在现代审计活动中,必须注重对审计行为的研究,把握个体行为、群体行为两者的内在联系和相互作用,充分调动审计人员的工作积极性和主观能动性,增加审计群体的凝聚力,促进审计组织活动的有效进行。     

IT审计:人民银行内审面临的新挑战

人民银行IT审计的目标应定位于：保证计算机系统的安全健康运行,有效控制系统风险。其审计步骤,大体上应分两步走：第一步,以IS审计为主,在此基础上不断探索IT审计途径;第二步,实现以IT审计为主。     

中国注册会计师审计实证研究:理论借鉴、本土特色与国际融合

实证会计研究在我国兴起的二十余年来,经常被讨论的一个问题是理论借鉴有余、本土特色不足.本文围绕注册会计师审计实证研究领域探讨了理论借鉴与本土特色的适配问题,列举了该领域若干较为突出的本土特色.我国新兴的资本市场以及尚处于起步发展阶段的审计职业决定了研究者在借鉴西方市场的理论时,宜充分评估我国制度背景是否与拟借鉴理论的实践基础相匹配.本文还讨论了如何辩证看待本土特色与国际融合的关系.     

审计与组织学习:国家审计建设性作用视角的分析

审计最初被赋予查错纠弊的监督职能,审计署成立初期国家审计主要扮演着国有资产保值增值的守护者角色。随着社会经济环境的变化和人们对审计本质认识的深化,国家审计许多潜在的功能逐渐被人们在实践中所发掘和发现。刘家义审计长提出审计是保障国家经济社会健康运行的免疫系统,突出了审计的建设性作用。本文首先回顾社会变革环境下中国国家审计功能及其演进,然后以组织学习理论和契约经济学理论作为审计建设性作用的理论依据,最后在理论分析的基础上提出基于组织学习的审计建设性功能制度创新。     

审计职业怀疑研究综述

职业怀疑是注册会计师从事审计工作应有的重要素质,也是影响审计质量的重要因素,尤其是审计职业界日益强调在审计计划和执行工作中应该保持职业怀疑态度的今天,这一问题就显得更为重要。然而,国内外关于这一问题的研究都相对比较薄弱。本文首先对已有的关于审计职业怀疑内涵的不同观点进行了分析,按照时间脉络介绍和分析了在发展过程中逐步形成的四个审计职业怀疑模型,在此基础上从审计职业怀疑与审计人员的个体特征、审计职业怀疑与职业怀疑行为两个方面,梳理和评述了目前国外对审计职业怀疑的研究成果,最后结合上述研究成果和审计实践,指出了这一领域未来可能的研究方向,以期为我国审计职业怀疑的理论研究和实践活动提供借鉴和参考。     

Configural Information Processing in Auditing: Further Evidence

An important issue in audit judgment research has been how auditors combine information in order to make judgments and, in particular, whether auditors ‘judgments involve configural cue usage. Some recent research (Brown and Solomon, 1990; 1991) has found that under certain conditions, many auditors were able to configurally process information. This paper extends this research by examining some conditions that may facilitate the development of auditors’ ability to configurally process available information. The study found that: (a) the proportion of auditors processing the information configurally was greater than chance; (b) for those that processed the information configurally, the form of the interaction was as predicted, that is, ordinal with a compensatory form; (c) increasing depth of processing by requiring subjects to provide explanations for their judgments did not have a significant effect on the number of auditors processing configurally; (d) the level of consensus was higher for auditors who processed configurally than for those who did not; and (e) the analysis of the explanations provided by configurai cue processors indicated that they saw the relevant cues as being substitutable.     

Bond durations: Corporates vs. Treasuries

We compare the durations (the percentage price sensitivity with respect to the default-free short rate) of corporate and Treasury bonds in the reduced-form, intensity-based credit risk modeling framework. In a frequently used intensity-based model for corporate bond valuation we provide an example showing that, given the parameter estimates found in empirical studies, the duration of a corporate coupon bond may very well be larger than the duration of a similar Treasury bond. This finding contrasts with conclusions of previous studies. In a general, intensity-based recovery of market value framework we provide a simple sufficient condition for when the duration of a corporate bond will be smaller than that of a similar Treasury bond. We also provide an upper bound on the duration of the corporate coupon bond.     

中美货币供应与经济增长的比较研究

20世纪90年代,中国和美国的经济都实现了持续较快增长.经济增长离不开货币供应的支持,通过对20世纪90年代中国与美国金融发展中货币供应与经济增长的相关关系进行比较研究发现:两国的各层次货币供应量均与GDP高度相关,且都有显著的线性依存关系;但程度却不相同,货币流通速度也有差异.我国应充分有效地利用金融资源服务于经济、金融的发展.     

Auditing in the United States: a historical perspective

This article reports several archival auditing discoveries and episodes, including significant previously unpublished ones, in a context that relates auditing to early corporate enterprises in the United States. While the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's reliance on its audit committee of directors from its inception in 1827 and the functions of the auditing committee of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in the 1850s are the principal subjects of the article, other railroad examples are also provided. These uses of auditing in the early corporate United States provide materials which provide a useful perspective for today's accounting researchers and practitioners as to the fundamental control and governance values of the auditing function. The article advances the basis for explaining the origins and development of auditing in the United States.     

People vs. poverty: Powering through partnership

Poverty continues to outwit the means to eradicate it. Despite post-World War focus on fighting poverty across the globe, poverty with its manifestations has continued to chart a distinct course. The adoption of the UN Millennium Development Goals only underscores the reality that the war on poverty has been far from won. As forces of globalization blur national boundaries, the need for fighting poverty has become serious than ever before. Innovative financing mechanisms engaging diverse stakeholders for developing poverty reduction strategies have been engineered as possible neo-institutional structures to counter the world's most daunting problems.     

Fire sale acquisitions: Myth vs. reality

We provide empirical evidence on the conjecture that in economic crises, firms could be forced to sell at deep discounts, or fire sale prices. Using the conventional stock price near the announcement date, we find instead distressed firms in crisis periods receive a 30% higher offer premium than distressed firms in normal periods; they also receive a 34% higher premium than non-distressed firms in crisis periods. Acquirers also do not gain, at announcement and over the long-term. Acquirers, however, may perceive they realize fire sale discounts if the reference is the targets’ highest price in the previous 52 weeks.     

Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory

A thorough understanding of internal incentive structures is critical to developing a viable theory of the firm, since these incentives determine to a large extent how individuals inside an organization behave. Many common features of organizational incentive systems are not easily explained by traditional economic theory—including egalitarian pay systems in which compensation is largely independent of performance, the overwhelming use of promotion-based incentive systems, the absence of up-front fees for jobs and effective bonding contracts, and the general reluctance of employers to fire, penalize, or give poor performance evaluations to employees. Typical explanations for these practices offered by behaviorists and practitioners are distinctly uneconomic—focusing on notions such as fairness, equity, morale, trust, social responsibility, and culture. The challenge to economists is to provide viable economic explanations for these practices or to integrate these alternative notions into the traditional economic model.     

欧元vs美元:并非零和博弈

欧元的实行提供了一种更完善的公共产品,它将被证明对欧元区内外的使用者都有利,包括所有在欧元区内和与欧元区有商业往来的部门。欧元具有改善欧元区国家经济表现的作用,从更广泛的意义上,欧元也是合作与和平一体化的标志,从这两方面,所有非欧元区的国家都可以间接得益。     

浅谈翻译实践中的形合与意合

英汉两种语言在句法结构上的主要差别为“形合”与“意合”，这种差别对翻译的影响较大，译者在双语转换的过程中要有意识地分析双语的特点，发挥译语的优势，灵活运用各种翻译技巧。     

The Politics of Accountability: Institutionalising Internal Auditing in Israel

Israel's attempt at strengthening public sector internal audit is found to have limited success, conforming with experiences of other countries. The adopted internal audit policy had little more than symbolic value, being devoid of stipulations to affect significant change. This is confirmed by implementation data that reveal low scores for most organizations across dimensions of structure, process and outcome. Politics of accountability and policy change models help to explain the causes of ineffectual internal audit legislation and of weak implementation. Findings suggest that top–down approaches to strengthening public sector internal audit are misplaced.     

Risk premia: Exact solutions vs. log-linear approximations

We derive exact expressions for the risk premia for general distributions in a Lucas economy and show that the errors when using log-linear approximations can be economically significant when the shocks are nonnormal. Assuming growth rates are Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) and fitting the distribution to the data used in Mehra and Prescott (1985), the coefficient of relative risk aversion required to match the equity premium is more than halved compared to the finding in their article. We also consider a standard long-run risk model and, by comparing our exact solutions to the log-linear approximations, we show that the approximation errors are substantial, especially for high levels of risk aversion.