Evaluating a method of integrating generic skills with accounting content based on a functional theory of meaning

This paper documents and evaluates an intervention designed to integrate the learning of selected generic skills, particularly analytical thinking and written communication skills, with the learning of accounting content. The method used was to scaffold practice in analytical thinking skills through specially designed writing activities. Content‐focused learning materials adapted from task‐types currently used to teach language skills were used to facilitate the analysis and interrelation of accounting concepts, principles and problems in interpersonal communicative contexts typical of actual accounting practice. The materials, in three assignments, were designed to incorporate: (i) selected generic skills, taken from those listed by the professional accounting bodies; (ii) writing, both as communication and as an instrument for analytical thinking and learning; (iii) knowledge of accounting concepts and principles; and (iv) awareness of the interpersonal dimensions of professional communication. Overall, students showed improved learning outcomes, with improvements of 19 percentage points for non‐Australian students over the three assignments. We were also able to show significant positive relationships between the assessments of assignments 2 and 3 and performance in the knowledge‐based final examination. Improvements in the quality of learning were shown in students’ improved ability to assess their own work.     

信息熵与灰关联度评价方法在电信重组中的应用

电信业存在的问题需要通过重组来解决.电信业的特点,适合采用信息熵和灰关联分析方法来评价重组方案.以构建有效竞争格局为目的,介绍了信息熵与灰关联度方法的建模步骤,并以例子说明了该方法的具体应用.     

提升中国企业所得税制竞争力的探讨

税制竞争力是指税制吸引经济资源和促进国内企业及产品参与国际竞争的能力。本文通过构造社会利益集团之间争夺税收优惠的委托代理模型,剖析了我国税制决策机制的缺陷,提出了以增强税制的立宪性、公平性、效率性为目标,通过统一税制、优化税收政策、强化税务管理的路径,提升中国企业所得税制竞争力的建议。     

The reference model of competitiveness factors for SME medical sector

The paper presents the issue of SME competitiveness in terms of determining their competitive position on the market. The proposed reference model, focused on the evaluation of the competitiveness of a selected group of SMEs on the market of medical services, was developed to support strategic decision-making. The usefulness of the model is verified in the process of determining the competitive position of a selected group of participants, applying research methods of strategic analysis. Relationships, observed during the study, occurring between the competitiveness factors and the competitive position taken by a company, provide knowledge, whose utilization directs the company's business to improving its market performance, organizational and economic conditions.     

日本的环境立国战略及其启示

2007年6月,日本内阁会议通过了《21世纪环境立国战略》。该战略进一步明确了通过发展环境、能源技术和改革社会经济系统以实现经济发展与环境保护的双赢,走经济社会可持续的发展道路,奠定了日本对内对外环境政策的基础。环境交流与合作是我们与环境先进的发达国家互利共赢的一个结合点。因此,我们应当充分利用国际环境合作的平台,积极引进环境先进国家的环保节能技术和经验,以推动我国资源节约型和环境友好型社会建设。     

评审专家抽取中的时间距离约束分析

针对现有评审专家抽取中距离约束存在的不足,本文提出了一种新的时间距离约束。本文介绍了时间距离的含义及其提出的必要性,并给出了基于GIS技术的时间距离计算方法,具体包括相关假设、计算步骤、解决方案以及实现过程。时间距离约束的提出不仅可以保证所有被选专家都可按时到达评审地点,而且还能打破行政区域的限制,合理调配专家资源,具有重要的现实意义。     

城市竞争力研究综述

本文对城市竞争力的相关概念进行了辨析。这些概念主要有：比较优势、竞争优势、核心竞争力等。在梳理这些概念的同时对这些概念与城市竞争力的关系进行了分析，确定了本文研究的城市竞争力概念。     

The UK technology foresight programme: An assessment of expert estimates

Since the early 1990s, ‘Technology Foresight’ exercises with special emphasis on the use of Delphi surveys have played an important role in science and technology (S + T) policy across Europe in an effort to focus resource allocation. Yet, none of the estimates made in the European Delphi surveys have been formally assessed in retrospect, while this process has been incorporated into the Japanese surveys since 1996. Taking the UK Technology Foresight Programme, this research sets out to assess the estimates of three of the fifteen panel Delphi surveys. Whilst on average 2/3 of Delphi statements were predicted to be realised by 2004, it will be shown that only a fraction of these statements had been realised by 2006. Based on the evidence collected from the published panel reports, the ‘Hindsight on Foresight’ survey conducted by OST in 1995 and interviews with panel members, it will be argued that the overwhelming majority of estimates were overly optimistic. While optimism and strategic gaming of experts is the most convincing explanation for these results, process factors were also explored, including the quality of expert panels used, the Delphi statements and the respondents of the Delphi questionnaire. It is argued that at least the issue of short-range optimism and strategic gaming of experts should be addressed in future Delphi exercises, as decision makers relying on expert advice cannot deal with this issue alone.     

劳动力成本提高条件下如何保持竞争力

近年来我国劳动力成本呈上升趋势,许多人担心我们在国际市场上的竞争优势将被削弱。文章认为,对此既要防止无所作为,又要避免反应过度。只要能够实现增长方式的转变,仍然可以获得动态比较优势的收益,寻找到新的经济增长源泉。应通过改善就业、再就业环境,挖掘劳动力供给的制度潜力,延缓劳动力成本上升趋势;避免对劳动力市场的过度干预;通过发展教育和培训,有效扩大人力资本存量,减少劳动力成本带来的冲击。     

保险产业集聚效应及其竞争力探源

产业集聚反映着保险业市场主体的价值链上下游整合与空间布局关系。由于保险业产业自身特性及国际金融以混业经营为其主流，国际上很少形成单一的保险业集群，保险业集聚寓于金融集聚之中；又由于传统保险业的技术专用性较低，故而保险业产业价值链比较简单，保险业的地域集中具有优于保险业前后向整合，打通产业链的竞争优势。保险业集聚有利于产品业务创新，业务外包和保险产业资产结构轻型化，可从根本上提升整体产业的竞争力。