上市公司社会责任审计的理论建构与实践问题探索

随着上市公司履行社会责任情况的信息披露日益受到利益相关者的密切关注,作为履行第三方鉴证责任的上市公司社会责任审计也越来越受到理论界和实务界的重视,因此通过理论建构与实践操作两个层面对上市公司社会责任审计问题进行有关探索十分必要。上市公司社会责任审计的理论框架可以从审计依据、审计原则、审计主体、审计内容、审计目标五个方面来构建;上市公司社会责任审计的实践问题可以从强化上市公司社会责任审计信息披露的监管、构建上市公司社会责任审计的标准、巩固上市公司社会责任审计的依据、探索上市公司社会责任审计的辅助机制和培养上市公司社会责任审计人员几个方面来探索。     

Monetary integration vs. real disintegration: single currency and productivity divergence in the euro area #

Productivity slowdown plays a prominent role in the build-up of the euro area crisis. This phenomenon affected member countries asymmetrically, causing divergence in their productivity trends. Recent research traces this divergence back to monetary integration. After reviewing the arguments that link real “disintegration” of the euro area to its monetary integration, we assess them empirically by modelling the evolution of labour productivity using a panel of sectorial data. The results indicate that monetary unification may actually have fostered divergence in productivity trends, and suggest some economic policy measures that could prevent further divergence.     

Biosimilars in North America

ABSTRACT

The United States (US) is the world leader in the development of biopharmaceutical products. These new drugs, numbering about 200, are now losing patent protection and imitators are entering the market of comparable drugs, called biosimilars. According to a popular belief, these producers of biosimilars (erroneously called copycats) are everywhere, except in the United States. In North America, on both sides of the US border, the increase in the number of biosimilar producers is evident. In addition, although the US federal government tries to erect barriers against the entry of foreign-made biosimilars in the country, many states are lobbying the federal government and allowing the use of biosimilars. And biosimilars represent a very convenient ladder for emergent and industrial countries to learn the enigmatic routines of the pharmaceutical industry. Where this segment of the industry will be located is another matter.     

论企业年金税收中的公平与效率

企业年金税收中的公平与效率是互相促进、互为条件的有机整体。在市场化的运行过程中,企业年金一般要经历缴费、投资和领受三个环节,每个环节在处理公平与效率时,其侧重点各有不同。未来的年金税收制度的发展应尽快出台统一的企业年金税收法,体现不同收入者、不同地区的税收优惠差别。     

当前我国征信体系建设需要明确的六个问题

从1993年第一张＂贷款证＂的首创,到＂银行信贷登记咨询系统＂的建立,再到＂全国统一的企业与个人征信系统＂的升级,我国征信体系已经走过18年风雨兼程的建设历程。当前我国征信体系建设正处在从信贷征信向社会征信方向扩展、从服务于金融机构向服务于政府和全社会转变的新的历史时期,如何借助历史赋予的力量更好更快地推动征信事业的更大进步,是摆在新一代征信事业建设人面前的新课题。结合我国征信事业的历史进程,对当前征信体系建设中的现实问题进行分析,并就如何做好下一步的征信工作提出一些看法。     

对现行会计信息系统教学的思考

乔治·索特教授提出的事项法及麦卡锡教授提出的REA会计模型将成为现行会计信息系统的发展方向。本文就现行会计信息系统（AIS）教学存在的问题及运用事项会计思想和方法的必要性和可行性进行了分析,同时主张大力倡导AIS内容的改革,引领高校会计教学向前沿发展,进而推进现行AIS体系结构的彻底变革。     

基于轴辐式系统的都市圈城际快递网络规划研究

分析了目前都市圈内快递企业的现状以及轴辐式系统的应用研究情况,根据都市圈内枢纽城市的地理分布特征,提出了两种轴辐式都市圈城际快递网络规划理论模型,旨在实现城际快递资源整合的基础上提高都市圈城际快递的运作效率,降低物流成本,减轻城市交通压力,并在此基础上提出了相应的政策建议。     

Strategic Issues in the Australian Tourism Industry: A 10-year Analysis of National Strategies and Plans

Predicting future events, trends and issues that may affect the tourism industry is not an exact science. Already the 21st century has seen a number of significant, radical and unexpected events, including September 11, SARS and, more recently, the worldwide economic downturn and natural disasters, such as earthquakes and cyclonic activity. Within this increasingly volatile global landscape, more than ever there is a need for the tourism industry to embrace a disciplined, structured and continuous approach to identifying and monitoring future trends and issues to inform policymaking and strategic planning. Yet in Australia it has been claimed that a preoccupation with marketing and short-term tactical planning, at the expense of long-term, strategic thinking, has led to limited planning perspectives for tourism. To explore these claims, this paper reports on a content analysis of 28 Australian national-level tourism strategic planning documents across a 10-year period (2000–2009 inclusive).     

Book Review

This research examines two modes of assessment of environmental health risks and the transformation of these risks into public health issues while relying on the specific case of well‐water toxicity and mega dose of electromagnetic radiation found in one prosperous town in the center of Israel – Ramat ha‐Sharon. Based on official and scientific documentation and interviews conducted at three time periods with randomly selected town residents from contaminated neighborhoods (N = 169), this study shows the discrepancy between the ‘objective’ experts’ standards for assessing environmental health risks and the public’s subjective perception and evaluation of the impact of these risks on their health and well‐being. Even though, by experts’ standards, the well‐water toxicity remained constant over the three interview sessions, Ramat ha‐Sharon town residents’ subjective levels of concern and perception of risk fluctuated as a function of news media and municipality announcements and residents’ perceived ability to minimize the risk. This study also shows the complex and multidisciplinary nature of environmental health risk assessments and the need to relocate them into the broader socioeconomic and political context in which they are embedded.     

城乡二元结构、三农问题与城镇化关系研究

1954年,美国著名经济学家刘易斯（W.A.Lewis,1915-1991）首次提出了二元经济结构理论。后经费景汉、拉尼斯和乔根森等人加以修改和发展,被认为是研究发展中国家经济的普遍理论。中国是个传统的农业大国,二元经济结构既包括工业与农业的对立,也包括城市与农村的对立。本文综合分析我国城乡二元经济结构的形成、城乡二元经济结构带来的＂三农＂问题与城镇化关系。城乡二元经济是现代化经济发展的阻碍,城镇化是解决我国城乡二元经济结构的根本出路。本文最后为加快城镇化建设、解决＂三农＂问题提出有效的建议。