自发性会计变更、公允价值变动损益与调减利润

本文以2008年1592家上市公司为总体样本,对34家发生调减利润自发性会计变更和249家发生负的公允价值变动损益公司的特征及动机进行了检验,发现这些公司进行调减利润的变更,造成与当年强制性会计变更相关性不复存在是高盈利公司平滑盈余和大亏公司的大清洗所致。     

基于新会计准则的上市公司会计政策组合选择分析

本文以2007年沪深股市发行A股的1461家公司为样本,对我国上市公司会计政策组合选择进行了分析。研究发现：2007年上市公司会计政策组合既有增加盈利的极端组合,又有减少盈利的极端组合;大部分上市公司选择的会计政策组合是混合程序,基本维持新会计准则实施之前的会计政策选择;采用极端组合的公司主要是扭亏公司、高盈利公司,扭亏公司一般不会选择减少盈利的极端组合;盈利能力相对于偿债能力仍是制约上市公司会计政策选择的主要因素,并且证券市场监管规定仍然在发挥效用。     

上市公司利润操纵的会计诱因及防范

上市公司由于面临市场对其盈利预期的压力而进行“利润操纵”，已经成为我国证券市场不可回避的事实，会计信息披露和监管所出现的种种问题也已成为证券市场各界关注的焦点。事实上，多数上市公司的利润操纵行为属于“会计造假”———通过变更会计政策、利用会计准则和会...     

2006年上市公司自发性会计政策变更特征分析

本文分析了2006年上市公司自发性会计政策变更的特征,认为上市公司随着强制性会计政策变更的进行适时调整了自发性会计政策变更策略,但未做出变更的证券市场监管政策依然发挥同样效力。     

2006年上市公司自发性会计政策变更特征分析

本文分析了2006年上市公司自发性会计政策变更的特征,认为上市公司随着强制性会计政策变更的进行适时调整了自发性会计政策变更策略,但未做出变更的证券市场监管政策依然发挥同样效力.     

投资者保护执行、监管政策与会计政策选择

本文以新会计准则实施前的2004年至2006年度报告了三项减值准备（存货跌价准备、短期投资减值准备和长期投资减值准备）的上市公司为研究样本，考察了投资者保护执行与证券市场的监管政策对会计政策选择的影响。研究发现，在控制了其它因素的影响后：投资者保护执行对会计政策的选择有显著影响且符号为负；配股政策与扭亏政策对会计政策选择没有显著影响，而证券市场的ST规定对会计政策选择有显著影响。     

上市公司会计政策选择多样性研究

本文以2001年沪深股市发行A股的公司为样本,对我国上市公司会计政策选择多样性进行了描述和解释。结果发现:我国上市公司会计选择受多种因素的影响,其中证券市场监管占主导因素,强制性会计变更也会影响企业的会计选择。具体到每种会计程序,还会受其他各种因素的影响。同时还发现,选用不同类型会计程序公司净资产收益率均值均大于零,资产负债率均值均小于50%。     

投资者保护执行、监管政策与会计政策选择

本文以新会计准则实施前的2004年至2006年度报告了三项减值准备(存货跌价准备、短期投资减值准备和长期投资减值准备)的上市公司为研究样本,考察了投资者保护执行与证券市场的监管政策对会计政策选择的影响。研究发现,在控制了其它因素的影响后:投资者保护执行对会计政策的选择有显著影响且符号为负;配股政策与扭亏政策对会计政策选择没有显著影响,而证券市场的ST规定对会计政策选择有显著影响。     

会计估计变更趋势与特征分析

本文对A股上市公司2003年到2009年会计估计变更的趋势与特征进行了分析。结果发现:A股上市公司变更会计估计的现象较为普遍,从2003年到2009年,发生会计估计变更的公司占到上市公司总数的7.00%;企业利用会计估计变更调减当期利润的现象多于调增当期利润或不影响当期利润的现象;上市公司变更会计估计,很多是公司主动进行的,且变更所采用的方式相对单一,主要是调整坏账准备计提比例或者变更固定资产折旧年限;新企业会计准则实施之后,企业变更会计估计的行为明显减少。     

公允价值计量是否成了盈余管理工具——基于上市公司2007～2009年财务数据的分析

本文选择2007～2009年沪深两市A股上市公司为研究样本,按照亏损公司、小额盈利公司和扭亏公司三类企业进行对比分析,结果表明:具有调减利润动机的亏损公司确实存在少计公允价值变动收益以调低利润的情况;对于具有调增利润动机的小额盈利公司和扭亏公司,无充分证据证明其利用公允价值变动收益进行盈余管理,但部分小额盈利公司和扭亏公司的公允价值变动收益对其利润总额的巨大贡献仍然值得信息使用者和监管部门关注。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

Introduction of New Technology with a Sound Transition of the Input-Output Structure

We examine the general equilibrium repercussions associated with the introduction of new technologies, using the generalized Leontief system that allows technological substitutions. We show that an untested introduction of cost-increasing technologies in any industry may result in creating a non-productive technological structure that does not satisfy the Hawkins-Simon condition, following the autonomous dynamic adjustment process with structural transitions in the economic system. Therefore, we propose a practicable control scheme of introducing cost-increasing technologies that strictly avoids the creation of non-productive structures in all periods of structural transition, using the available information on the ex ante technological structure.     

The Creation of the Office for National Statistics

A new Office for National Statistics was created in the United Kingdom in 1996 following a series of developments designed to strengthen the relevance and integrity of statistics. This paper describes these fundamental changes and sets out a blueprint for future progress. It also sets current developments in the United Kingdom in an historical and international context.     

What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on

We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group of British women engineers in two FTSE 100 companies account for “staying on” in their male‐dominated work settings. We delineate four specific forms of help that facilitate women's retention in the field. We argue that exposure to help leads to women developing a habitus that enables them to continue working in engineering. To conclude, we draw on our findings to outline HR practices that will facilitate supportive relationships in the workplace and pave the way towards developing more positive organisational climates.     

论现代物流企业的发展观

物流业经过诸多年的发展目前已经成为最热门的行业之一,物流企业的注册数量也与日俱增,达到前所未有的规模。毋庸置疑,任何企业都希望自己迅速做强做大,并成为真正现代物流企业的典型代表,要实现这一目标一个首要问题就是要解决现代物流企业的发展观问题。