Acquirers’ abnormal returns and the non-Big 4 auditor clientele effect

I analyze the effect of auditor choice on acquirers’ values around merger announcements and the factors affecting the interaction between auditor size and the market reaction to merger announcements. I find that acquirers audited by non-Big 4 accounting firms outperform those audited by Big 4 firms. This effect is more pronounced when the targets are privately held and when the likelihood of the auditors playing a prominent advisory role increases. While the largest auditing firms are usually assumed to offer superior services, the study suggests that smaller firms have a comparative advantage in assisting their clients in merger transactions.     

Strategic pricing by Big 4 audit firms in private client segments

We examine how Big 4 auditors compete for new private clients. We find evidence suggesting that Big 4 auditors offer fee discounts to attract non‐Big 4 private clients to experience attributes of their brand name audit services. We also find that to attract clients from competing Big 4 suppliers, Big 4 auditors target fee discounts at clients in industries where they are the market leader. Our results further indicate that the Big 4 industry leaders target fee discounts to fast‐growing clients and are able to charge these clients significant price fee increases in the second mandate period (after 3 years).     

正确认识代理制对我国广告业发展的积极意义

分析了广告代理制这一国际通行的广告行业运作机制对发展我国广告业所具有的积极意义,指出推行广告代理制是理顺我国广告业内的各种关系、规范我国的广告市场、增强我国广告业国际竞争力的有效途径。     

注册会计师审计质量影响因素研究文献述评

近年来我国乃至世界范围内财务丑闻案不断发生，导致独立审计质量无从保证，由此引发了空前的审计行业诚信危机和道德危机，也引起了对审计质量及其影响因素相关关系的研究。本文采用述评结合的方法对国内外研究成果进行了全面、系统的梳理和归类整合。结果发现，审计质量及其影响因素之间存在因果相关关系，在一定条件下审计质量是多种因素共同作用的结果，而提高审计质量的关键是推行现代风向导向审计。     

河南富裕客户理财需求与私人银行发展

由于本土银行在内陆省份更有网点优势、品牌优势和情感优势,加之河南富豪参与金融理财的需求增加,当前发展河南私人银行业务十分必要。在发展过程中,应在细分需求的基础上,着力培养高素质的私人银行家团队、加强金融机构间的合作、建立高效的信息技术平台、积极发展客户。     

基于贷款偏好、企业规模和还贷行为的银企关系分析

中小企业融资难的一大原因是商业银行在选择授信对象时具有“授信给中小规模企业风险大”的贷款偏好．从而在信贷业务操作中表现出对中小企业的歧视。那么实际中小企业还贷履约行为如何？以商业银行和融资企业为对象,本文建立信贷交易博弈模型并实证检验融资企业的规模大小与其还贷履约行为的关系。结果表明：考虑到违约成本,相比较大规模企业的还贷履约情况,中小企业选择按时还贷履约的概率更大,还贷履约情况更好。     

良好的客户关系是电子商务时代企业获取财富的重要源泉

建立良好的客户关系是电子商务时代企业赢得重复业务和利润的基础,而重复业务和利润是电子商务企业成功之所在。良好的客户关系需要企业将“以客户为中心”的理念贯穿于全部经济运营活动中,并通过个性化的产品和服务以及优秀的品牌效应来赢得客户的信任和长久的合作关系,从而为企业更多的获取财富创造条件。     

中国城市商业银行的理财定位及现实选择

面对国内外银行理财业务的冲击，中国城市商业银行必须做出自己的理财抉择。根据目前我国城市商业银行的现状，中国城市商业银行的金融理财业务的市场定位应为中小企业客户作理财服务；发展初期的理财产品以代理他人产品或与人联合开发为主，实行发散式营销；目的以强化客户关系为主，坚持保本微利的原则，客户群稳定和壮大后才能以理财为盈利手段；目前的关键是金融理财人才的培养。     

Audit and non-audit fees and capital market perceptions of auditor independence

This study provides evidence on whether auditor independence-in-appearance, proxied by earnings response coefficients, is related to the non-audit fee ratio (non-audit to total fees from a client) or client importance (total fees from a client as a percentage of the total revenues of the audit firm). The results from large samples over the period 2001–2006 show, contrary to popular belief and the findings of some prior studies, that there is no evidence of a relation between perceived auditor independence and the non-audit fee ratio. However, perceived auditor independence is negatively associated with client importance, consistent with the economic theory of auditing. Our paper adds to the literature by examining the relative importance of non-audit fee ratios and client importance as determinants of independence-in-appearance.     

Thai girls and Farang men the edge of ambiguity

This paper examines the dynamics of the short-term and longer term relationship between prostitutes and tourists in Bangkok, Thailand. Based on fieldwork in one small area of Bangkok, it examines the expectations of the women and the foreign men who patronize their services. It concludes that for most of the women, prostitution offers a career marked by a pattern of upward and downward mobility, economic insecurity, often emotional instability, and no long-term solution to the economic conditions which made them join the profession in the first place.