How Do Investors Regard ESOs?

All top‐50 and more than 80% of the top‐500 Australian listed companies now reward their executives with stock options (ESOs) of one kind or another.₁ We address the question: “Which method of accounting for ESOs — current practice, the US FASB's recommended practice or the AASB's preferred position — most closely reflects investors' pricing decisions?” We answer the question using models that relate a company's stock price to its earnings and book value of equity calculated according to these three choices of accounting treatment.     

Employee Reload Options: Pricing, Hedging, and Optimal Exercise

Reload options, call options granting new options on exercise,are popularly used in compensation. Although the compound optionfeature may seem complicated, there is a distribution-free dominantpolicy of exercising reload options whenever they are in themoney. The optimal policy implies general formulas for numericalvaluation. Simpler formulas for valuation and hedging followfrom Black–Scholes assumptions with or without continuousdividends. Time vesting affects the optimal policy, but numericalresults indicate that it is nearly optimal to exercise in themoney whenever feasible. The results suggest that reload optionsproduce similar incentives as employee stock options and sharegrants.     

Unit initial public offerings: Staged equity or signaling mechanism?

We investigate the use of unit (i.e., package) initial public offerings by Australian industrial firms and conclude that their use reflects their role as a signaling mechanism (Chemmanur and Fulghieri, 1997), as distinct from the agency–cost explanation offered by Schultz (1993). From a sample of 394 IPOs between 1976 and 1994, the 66 firms making unit offerings are typically riskier, use less prestigious underwriters and have a lower level of retained ownership than other IPO firms. While these results are also consistent with Schultz's agency cost explanation, other results we report are not. We find no difference in underpricing etween unit IPOs and other IPO firms, nor are there any significant differences in the planned uses of proceeds reported in the prospectus, post–listing failure rates or secondary equity offerings of the type predicted by Schultz. We do however, report evidence consistent with a prediction unique to the signaling explanation. After controlling for the level of ownership retained by insiders, the proportion of firm value sold as warrants is increasing in IPO firms' riskiness.     

Discussion of “Differential Market Reactions to Revenue and Expense Surprises”

Ertimur et al. (2003, this issue) study the difference in the market;s reaction to revenue versus expense surprises. The discussion first reviews their main findings and assesses the paper's potential contributions. Alternative explanations are then considered for the base-line result that the market reacts more to revenue surprises than to expense surprises. The hypothesized reasons for revenue surprises to matter more are critiqued, as are the tests of the hypotheses, and potential extensions that would link these test to financial statement analysis are suggested. Finally, two aspects of the assessment of how the reaction to revenue and expense surprises differs across value and growth firms are discussed: The definitions of value and growth firms and the potential benefits of assessing why analyst revenue forecasts are (not) observed for many value (growth) firms.     

我国政府会计模式构建过程中主体界定问题初探

我国政府会计体系改革的起步相对较晚,有些方面滞后于财政预算管理体制的改革,而且与国际惯例之间也存在着一定的差距,因此适应我国经济体制和财政体制改革的需要。特别是适应我国加入WTO的新形势,积极推进政府会计体系的改革,将是我国下一步会计改革的重要内容。在这个过程中,我们认为首先应当思考这样一个问题,即未来政府会计体系的界限应当在哪里划定?或者说,究竟什么样的经济主体属于“政府”,应当纳入到未来的政府会计体系中?本文在借鉴GASB成功经验的基础上从“组织性质”和“资金来源与用途”两个角度提出了“双主体”模式的初步设想。     

内外资企业所得税分设存在的主要问题及改革选择

近年来,统一内外资企业所得税的呼声越来越高,这一问题解决得好坏关系到内资企业的生存与发展。我国现行内外资企业所得税分设的税制模式是在特定的历史条件下形成的,经过10多年的运行,曾经促进了我国经济的快速发展。但是这种企业所得税制度也有其不足,尤其是我国加入世界贸易组织后,随着经济环境的变化,这种税制暴露的问题日益突出。因此,必须对我国现行的企业所得税制度进行改革,以适应经济的发展。     

论一人有限责任公司课税模式的选择——仅从"自然人股东"角度出发

新《公司法》明确规定一人有限责任公司为我国一种新的企业形态。按照我国目前的税制,一人有限责任公司的所得,不仅要以公司的名义缴纳企业所得税,自然人股东从公司所得中获得的收入还需要缴纳个人所得税,这有违量能课税原则。征税所考虑的首要因素应是纳税主体是否具有负担能力,而非是否具有独立人格。在我国的税制中,更是要求公司具有特别的税收负担能力,而这正是以自然人为股东的一人公司所缺乏的。     

绿色金融发展与产业结构优化升级研究 —基于江西省的实证

近年来,随着绿色金融体系建设上升为国家战略,我国绿色金融发展取得了不少 令人瞩目的成果。在我国经济发展进入新常态和大力倡导供给侧结构性改革的时代背景下,江 西省作为首批建设绿色金融改革创新试验区,研究江西省绿色金融发展促进产业结构调整升 级对加快生态文明体制改革和建设美丽中国具有重要的现实意义。在分析绿色促进产业结构 调整升级的机制之后,通过构建灰色关联模型对江西省2008~2016年绿色金融与产业结构关联 度进行实证分析。最后,结合江西省绿色金融发展的实际情况,提出了相应的对策建议以促进 江西省产业结构调整升级。     

食品中内源性甲醛的产生机理及控制技术

甲醛属于致癌、致畸物质,添加到食品中会对食用此食品的人造成伤害。本文综述内源性甲醛在各类食品中的来源、形成机理、影响因素及其毒性控制技术。以期在食品安全生产过程中,更好地减少和控制各类食品中内源性甲醛的含量。