扭亏、审计师变更与审计意见购买

本文中使用了修正的Lennox审计意见估计模型．对2001年到2003年有扭亏行为的上市公司的审计师变更和审计意见购买的关系进行了研究；并分析了变更后的审计意见同盈余管理之间的关系。研究发现：扭亏与审计师变更显著正相关；上期出具非标准无保留审计意见且本期发生事务所变更的公司不但不能实现审计意见的购买，而且有加重审计意见的趋势；盈余管理程度与审计意见的改善负相关。     

管理层风险偏好与审计意见购买

基于审计意见购买模型,考察管理层风险偏好对审计意见购买的影响及其引发的经济后果,结果发现:管理层风险偏好越强,上市公司越倾向于通过审计意见购买获得更有利的审计意见;在审计师变更时机和变更方向上,审计意见购买在审计师晚变更、降级变更方面体现得更明显;审计意见购买行为降低了审计质量.结论扩展了资本市场审计意见购买影响因素方面的研究,并为审计意见购买的经济后果研究提供了经验证据,对监管政策制定与利益相关者决策具有重要的参考价值.     

审计师变更、审计意见购买与政策监管——研究评述与中国的实践

本文主要从审计师变更的原因、审计师变更与审计意见购买之间的关系、市场与政府对审计师变更反应等方面,对西方实证研究进行了综述。对在我国特定制度背景下审计师变更的实证研究,我国上市公司审计师变更的实务等,作了简略地评述。     

审计师变更、审计意见购买与政策监管——研究评述与中国的实践

本文主要从审计师变更的原因、审计师变更与审计意见购买之间的关系、市场与政府对审计师变更反应等方面,对西方实证研究进行了综述。对在我国特定制度背景下审计师变更的实证研究,我国上市公司审计师变更的实务等,作了简略地评述。     

非标准审计意见与自愿性审计师变更研究

国内外证券市场经验表明,上市公司可能通过变更审计师行为以规避对自身不利的审计意见,因此,研究公司审计师变更的影响动因,对避免变更行为导致的不利后果,提高审计质量具有重要的理论和实际意义。文章探讨了审计师变更中自愿性审计师变更的动因及规律,研究发现非标准审计意见是导致审计师变更的首要因素。     

再融资资格、异常审计收费与审计意见变通

增加审计收费是上市公司改善审计意见的重要手段,但能在多大程度上改善审计意见需要进一步研究.以2008-2010年间被出具非标审计意见的上市公司为研究对象,进一步将非标审计意见细分,考察这些公司在随后会计年度审计意见的改善程度与审计收费的关系,结果显示:变更审计师不能改善审计意见,上市公司审计收费水平异常增加,可以引起审计意见的改善,但改善的幅度有限,难以通过增加审计收费达到购买标准审计意见的目的.特别值得关注的是,上市公司通过增加审计费用成功地将带强调事项段的审计意见变更为标准审计意见,实现了再融资目的.     

上市公司审计师变更行为研究——基于2011～2013年A股市场的经验数据

本文通过整理2011～2013年中注协公布的年报审计快报中审计机构变更的相关信息,从审计师变更方向、审计师变更日期、审计师变更前后的审计费用变化、审计意见改变、前后任审计师报备状况及陈述的变更原因这些角度,对近年来我国A股上市公司审计师变更行为进行剖析,并提出些许规范性的建议。     

上市公司审计师变更问题研究

随着我国证券市场的不断发展,上市公司变更审计师的现象频频发生,恶意变更审计师的行为不胜枚举,这其中可能潜藏着相当数量的不正当竞争和审计独立性减损问题。本文将结合我国上市公司在年度报告中披露的审计师变更数据,选择可能影响审计师变更行为的若干因素,对2004—2008年上市公司审计师变更进行了分析,发现非标准审计意见,是审计师变更的根本原因,企业财务困境也相关。     

审计师变更之管理层与审计师博弈：模型与抉策

审计师的变更具有经济后果。管理当局通过变更审计师,购买有利的审计意见或是通过提出变更审计师威胁审计师的独立性,都将有损审计质量。本文通过构建管理层与审计师的博弈模型,分析可能影响其行为决策的因素,以期对我国审计师变更监管政策的制定有所帮助。     

审计师变更原因分析及其对策研究

审计师变更是当前国内外审计领域研究的热点问题，其探讨主要集中在审计师变更原因的分析和相关应对措施方面。本文认为，我国审计市场集中度过低为审计师的变更提供了环境基础；购买审计意见是引起审计师变更的原因；地方保护的存在也是审计师变更的重要原因。针对这些问题，笔者提出了规范审计师变更的建议。     

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.     

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。     

浅谈大体积混凝土裂缝的控制

大体积混凝土的裂缝问题是实际工程中长期困扰工程技术人员的问题,其控制技术的研究是混凝土结构研究的热点问题,具有重大的学术价值和潜伏的工程背景。     

Supply Chain Strategies in the UK Fashion Industry—The Rhetoric of Partnership and Realities of Power

This paper focuses on the fashion industry, one characterised by issues such as dramatic shifts in the scale and power of major retail buyers in the market, the advent of retailer own brands, and the nature of sourcing and supply chain decisions, issues that are increasingly global in nature. The aim of this research is to explore the nature of relationships between UK high street multiple fashion retailers and their contracted suppliers, many of whom are entrepreneurial firms by most definitions of the term. Four core themes emerge from the literature and provide a framework for the research, namely, power, process, partnership, and people. The research approach was qualitative, and conducted over a period of twelve months. The paper ends with an agenda for future research.