上市公司社会责任信息披露的问题及对策

本文通过对公司社会责任信息披露内容的界定,结合公司社会责任理论,分析我国上市公司社会责任信息披露现状和存在问题,在借鉴国内外理论成果和实务经验的基础上,提出了建立和完善企业社会责任信息披露的建议。     

ISO26000对我国企业社会责任信息披露的影响和启示

ISO26000是继SA8000之后的又一项重要的社会责任国际标准,其出台对全球社会责任运动具有重要的现实意义,也必将对我国企业社会责任的信息披露产生重大影响。鉴于我国企业社会责任信息披露仍存在诸多问题,笔者在学习了ISO26000的相关内容后,得出了我国可以从建立信息披露体系、界定信息披露范围和建立社会责任鉴证制度等方面来完善我国社会责任信息披露的启示。     

我国企业社会责任信息披露问题的探讨

企业披露社会责任信息是企业对所承担的社会责任情况的反映,本文通过对一些上市公司的调查对我国企业的社会责任信息披露现状进行分析,并对企业社会责任信息披露的内容、模式及构建企业社会责任信息披露机制提出了建议。     

浅议企业社会责任信息披露

文章通过分析中联重科、云南白药以及康美药业的社会责任报告,总结出我国目前企业社会责任报告的主要内容,揭露了我国现阶段社会责任信息披露的问题现状,并对问题成因进行了分析,最后提出了几点完善我国社会责任信息披露的建议对策。     

采掘类上市公司社会责任信息披露分析

由于特殊的行业属性,采掘类企业在环境保护、劳动保护等方面具有更多的社会责任.本文以采掘类上市公司为研究对象,对其社会责任公开信息披露的形式、内容和质量等进行了分析,提出了我国采掘类上市公司社会责任信息披露方面的不足,并提出了对应的改进意见,希望能为相关政府部门和企业进一步的规范提供一些参考     

企业社会责任信息披露的研究述评

企业应承担的社会责任及其披露一直是理论与实务界关注的热点。学者们从不同角度对企业社会责任信息披露的内容、提出背景、披露的动机及现状、社会责任信息披露对企业业绩的影响和披露质量等问题进行了深入的研究。本文对已有的相关理论研究进行回顾与总结,希望对我国社会责任信息披露的研究有所帮助。     

企业社会责任信息披露问题的探讨

企业社会责任要求企业在追求经济效益的同时也要兼顾社会利益.为了使企业相关利益者了解企业是否履行了社会责任,企业必须披露有关社会责任信息.我国企业社会责任信息披露还处于初级阶段,缺乏企业社会责任信息披露的意识.因此,在进行企业社会责任信息披露时,应披露能源利用、环境保护、职工利益等方面的内容,并在年报附注中披露社会责任信息,编制企业社会责任白皮书等.     

内部控制信息披露中相关主体责任界定的现状及改进

根据上市公司现行规范的要求,上市公司内部控制信息披露中涉及的主体包括董事会、监事会及注册会计师,但在涉及企业内部控制信息披露的许多规范制度中缺少对相关主体责任的明确界定。本文在分析了商业银行内部控制信息披露规范及披露现状的基础上,对企业内部控制信息披露及相关主体的责任界定问题进行了讨论。本文认为,我国现实中内部控制信息披露相关主体的责任界定模糊,这一问题的存在会带来内部控制信息披露流于形式、相关主体面临诉讼风险等负面影响。因此,建议通过完善内部控制信息披露规范、完善内部控制评价规范体系、协调规范间的差…     

企业社会责任信息披露指标体系的构建

社会责任越来越受到经济社会的重视,如何计量和报告企业所承担的社会责任情况,成为了会计学科里一个新的研究热点,在分析和比较国外社会责任信息披露现状的基础上,结合国内的实际情况,参考了全球报告倡议组织（GRI）评价体系,试图从经济、社会、环境三个角度出发,分为六大类二十七小类构建出适合我国国情的企业社会责任信息披露指标体系。     

我国企业社会责任会计信息披露研究

企业社会责任信息披露问题是当前国内外会计界研究的热点和难点问题。建立有效的企业社会责任会计信息披露体系,可以更好的督促企业自觉履行应承担的社会责任。企业社会责任要求实现利益相关者利益的最大化,而不仅仅只关注股东的权益。本文从企业利益相关者需求的角度来分析研究我国社会责任信息披露,采用指数评分法分析研究我国社会责任信息披露的现状和存在的问题,并提出构建以需求为导向的社会责任披露模式。     

Associations between social responsibility disclosure and characteristics of companies

Surveys have shown a trend of increased corporate disclosure of social responsibility information. This paper suggests some reasons why companies provide social responsibility information and examines the effects of four variables (size, systematic risk, social constraints and management decision horizon) on the social responsibility disclosure practices of Australian companies.     

Shareholder Requirements for Compulsory Environmental Information in Annual Reports and on Websites

Growing general concern regarding the natural environment may cause shareholders to require more accountability for environmental issues from the companies in which they invest. We do a survey of shareholders in three major Anglophone countries (Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to determine whether they require compulsory environmental disclosure and where they would prefer companies to disclose such information. In all three countries, shareholders prefer compulsory environmental disclosure in annual reports (preferably in a separate section addressing the issue), as well as disclosure on websites, whereas separate environmental reports are less popular as a disclosure medium. Overall, legislation is preferred as a method to mandate environmental disclosure, with accounting standards more popular among American shareholders. The implication is that regulators may have to reconsider their current stance regarding corporate environmental disclosure.     

Voluntary disclosures of intangibles information by U.S.-listed Asian companies

This paper provides evidence on the voluntary disclosure of intangibles information for U.S.-listed Asian companies. The paper examines the following issues: (1) the effect of firm size, ownership concentration, proportion of foreign revenue, and leverage on voluntary disclosures of intangibles information by U.S.-listed Asian companies; and (2) the use of international standards, and the effect of domestic and global culture on those disclosures. Results indicate that larger firms, firms with greater ownership dispersion, and firms with lower leverage provide more voluntary disclosure of intangibles information. The paper also documents that companies from countries that are more individualistic provide more voluntary disclosure of intangibles information than companies from countries that are collectivist. Therefore, it appears that domestic culture does affect the voluntary disclosure of intangibles information in the U.S. This paper uses the index developed for Portuguese companies by Oliveira, Rodrigues, and Craig (2006), to measure voluntary disclosures of intangibles information thereby providing external validity to their instrument.     

Do Financial Markets Care about Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure? Further Evidence from China

Corporations increasingly define their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as a part of their business. However, is this trend beneficial to investors? Based on an event study methodology and a sample of Chinese listed companies, we extend the literature on voluntary disclosure by exploring the role of CSR disclosure in reducing stock market information asymmetry, as proxied by share price volatility and liquidity. Our results show that the share price volatility after CSR disclosure is lower than before CSR disclosure; however, the trend is that it decreases first and then increases for three months following disclosure. Stock liquidity also significantly improves after CSR disclosure; however, it increases first and then decreases. Additionally, by dividing CSR disclosure into economic (hard) disclosure and generic (soft) disclosure, we find that the reduction in information asymmetry is higher for hard disclosure than soft disclosure, suggesting that although CSR disclosure does indeed have an impact on investors’ behaviour in China, an economic‐based disclosure contributes more substantially. Finally, to better understand the characteristics of the Chinese financial market, we also explore the role of marketisation with results that show that the effect in reducing information asymmetry is greater for companies located in a region with a higher degree of marketisation.     

Capital market liberalisation and voluntary corporate social responsibility disclosure: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

This paper investigates the impact of the Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) scheme on voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure in China. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) design, we find that companies that participate in the SHSC scheme are more inclined to voluntarily issue CSR reports. This effect is more pronounced for companies that have limited access to international markets and those with weak corporate governance. Additional analyses show that SHSC-connected firms also produce higher quality CSR reports and achieve a better CSR performance. Our findings imply that capital market liberalisation promotes voluntary corporate disclosure for investors.     

资本市场开放能否提高企业信息披露质量？——基于“沪港通”和年报文本挖掘的分析

提高信息披露质量对于改善上市公司治理结构和保护股东权益具有重要意义。本文利用2014年开通的“沪港通”机制这一准自然实验,研究资本市场开放是否提高了企业的信息披露质量。从2010-2019年A股上市公司年报文本中提炼可读性指标衡量信息披露质量,使用匹配和双重差分方法进行实证研究,发现“沪港通”机制实施以后,标的公司(纳入“沪港通”的A股上市公司)的信息披露质量显著提高。这一结论对不同的估计方法、样本区间及控制变量组均保持稳健。异质性分析表明,对于盈余操纵水平较高、股价信息含量较低的企业,资本市场开放能够更好地改善其信息披露质量。本文丰富了资本市场开放对企业行为和绩效影响的实证研究,为继续推进资本市场开放政策提供了理论依据。     

上市公司自愿性信息披露对股票流动性影响的实证研究

以2007～2008年沪深两市A股上市公司年报作为研究基础,运用描述性统计和两阶最小二乘法分析了自愿性信息披露对上市公司股票流动性的影响。验证了自愿性信息披露会促进上市公司股票的流动性,同时发现自愿性披露信息中财务方面信息对上市公司股票流动性的提高作用最大。     

A framework for the analysis of firm risk communication

In this paper, we propose a framework for the analysis of risk communication and an index to measure the quality of risk disclosure. Mainstream literature on voluntary disclosure has emphasized that quantity can be used as a sound proxy for quality. We contend that, in the analysis of the disclosure of risks made by public companies, attention has to be paid not only to how much is disclosed but also to what is disclosed and how.We apply the framework to a sample of nonfinancial companies listed in the ordinary market on the Italian Stock Exchange. To verify that the framework and synthetic index are not influenced by the two factors recognized in the literature as the most powerful drivers of disclosure behavior for listed companies, we use an OLS model. The regression shows that the index of disclosure quantity is not influenced either by size or industry. Thus, the synthetic measure can be used to rank the quality of the disclosure of risks.     

An international study of carbon information asymmetry and independent carbon assurance

Protecting the environment is now a major aspect of corporate social responsibility. However, voluntary carbon disclosure includes private information on future sustainability that external stakeholders cannot easily verify. Drawing on information asymmetry theory, we predict that companies with higher carbon information asymmetry between insiders and outsiders have a greater incentive to voluntarily engage an external party for the independent assurance of their greenhouse gas statements. Using data from the CDP, we test this hypothesis and find that our proxies for carbon information asymmetry (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, energy structure) are significantly associated with the adoption of carbon assurance. Further analyses suggest that the probability of carbon assurance is enhanced when carbon disclosure is inadequate to diminish information asymmetry. Finally, our sample companies adopted carbon assurance in addition to financial auditing. This highlights the key point that resolving carbon information asymmetry requires carbon assurance, which cannot be substituted for by financial auditing.     

上市公司信息披露与投资者信息获取的成本效益问卷调查分析

本文分别对上市公司信息披露的成本效益和投资者信息获取的成本效益网上问卷调查进行分析 ,结果表明 ,上市公司信息披露工作的费用呈逐年上升态势 ;投资者为获取公开信息所负担的费用较多 ,总体呈上升趋势 ;投资者普遍认为对投资决策极重要的公开信息项目有年度报告、利润分配及转增股本实施公告、首次发行或二次发行招股说明书及发行公告等。投资者认为最重要的定期报告项目是主要财务指标 (中报 )和会计数据和业务数据摘要 (年报 )、股本变动和 (主要 )股东 (持股 )情况以及财务报告。对机构投资者而言 ,其在作出投资决策时最关注的财务指标依次是上市公司成长性指标、盈利数量指标、盈利质量指标。而对偿债能力指标、资产状况指标、营运状况指标、现金流量指标和利润分配指标则关注程度不是很大。