Audit education role in decreasing the expectation gap

The need for change in the accounting and audit profession is a topic discussed and accepted by both regulators and accounting professionals. The authors aimed to investigate whether audit education has an effect on the existence of the audit expectation gap. To achieve this objective, they administered a survey on students, used as proxies for different categories of stakeholders. The results highlight that audit education is impactful in covering the audit reasonableness gap, thus more action in this direction is necessary.     

关于建筑项目工程跟踪审核的特点与重要性的探索

跟踪审计作为现代审计的一种重要方式,已经在大中型建设项目审计中应用,并且取得了明显的管理效益和直接的经济成果.但建设工程跟踪审核在实施过程中仍存在着很多问题亟待进一步探索.但是只要科学合理地选择审核跟踪点,准确掌握审核参与管理的程度,相信跟踪审核会逐步步入程序化、规范化、市场化的轨道.     

产业政策、盈余信息质量与审计意见

宏观经济政策对微观企业行为影响是当前经济和管理学领域的一个热点话题。文章以2006—2015年沪深两市A股上市公司为样本，理论分析与实证检验了宏观产业政策对微观企业审计意见的影响及其内在机理。实证结果发现，产业政策显著降低了受支持企业被出具非标准审计意见的概率，并且路径分析揭示，产业政策对审计意见的影响通过提高受支持企业的盈余信息质量得以实现，在通过双重差分（DID）控制潜在的内生性之后，仍表明产业政策能显著提高受支持企业的盈余信息质量。进一步探究其内在机理发现，产业政策会降低受支持企业的融资约束程度，从而降低企业市场融资动机下的盈余操纵行为，进而提升其盈余信息质量；同时产业政策会通过降低受支持企业大股东的掏空行为，从而降低其为掩盖掏空而进行的盈余操纵，进而提升盈余信息质量。这些发现揭示了产业政策影响审计意见的内在机理，不但为产业政策的积极经济后果提供了支持证据，也丰富了审计意见研究的相关理论。     

Where the twain shall meet? A study of best practices to resolve retailer–supplier acrimony in post-audit recovery of trade promotion dollars

Abstract

Deductions and claims to recover trade promotions incentives through post-audit of previous years’ transactions is a highly contentious but prevalent practice in the industry. Retailers, given their low margins of operations, are motivated to seek every opportunity to obtain extra incentives from suppliers to boost their profits. They often hire third-party post-auditors to scrub through all their transactions and “deal sheets” or supplier agreements to search for potential unclaimed trade promotion dollars promised by suppliers in prior years. Third party auditors have an incentive to also make dubious claims as they are compensated on contingency fees of a percent of claims recovered. Such practices lead to acrimony between retailers and suppliers. They often have differing viewpoints and opinions about the contextual terms of the trade promotion deals itself leading to an opinion “chasm” that is sometimes difficult to bridge. The resulting tension among retailers and suppliers, along with regulatory compliance under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, and prevailing questions on the role and practices of post-auditors, motivated this study. Conducted over a 24-month period with extensive collaboration and research discussions between the study team and responsible managers from leading US retail and manufacturing companies. The distinctive mix of academic rigor and practitioner relevance was the hallmark of this study that involved three retail summits conducted with industry participants to discuss the research method and its resultant findings. Evidence suggests that transactional discrepancies will continue to happen, despite technological advances, because of large volume of transactions and multiplicity of complex trade promotion methods in vogue in the retail world. So, as long as there are claim opportunities, post-audit recovery practices will continue, confounding the darker side of the retailer–supplier relationship. Through a multi-stage and multi-level study, and data from a variety of sources, we identify best practices in post-audit recovery and suggest ways to reduce associated conflict and improve relationship satisfaction.     

浅谈内部审计沟通问题

沟通是人与人之间互相传递信息的过程,可以满足彼此信息的需要。良好的沟通能够有效提高工作水平并改善工作质量,能够使团队合作更加融洽。当然,在内部审计工作中,沟通的重要性和必要性也毋庸置疑。沟通在工作中可以起到枢纽的作用,将彼此的想法不断融合、不断进步。本文主要分析了在内部审计工作中沟通的重要性、沟通存在的问题以及相关问题的解决策略,以供日后研究内部审计沟通问题时参考。     

我国会计师事务所信息化发展现状及对策研究

互联网的普及和信息化时代的到来让每个行业的数据快速增长,大数据时代的接踵而至更是让各行各业的数据呈指数型增长。会计师事务所与各个行业都有接触,其日常接触的数据量之大是很多行业所不能相比的,其信息化程度的高低有时直接影响审计效率和审计效果。然而我国会计师事务所信息化程度与国际大型会计师事务所相比依然有较大差距,我国会计师事务所信息系统审计发展并不是很高。本文将我国会计师事务所信息化发展的现状与国际会计师事务所信息化现状进行对比,尝试阐释导致这些现象发生的原因并提出相关的改进措施。     

基于审计全覆盖的政府审计购买社会服务研究

审计机关的资源不足严重制约着审计全覆盖的实现,政府审计利用社会审计的资源成为实现审计全覆盖的重要路径。文章对政府审计购买社会服务的必要性、可行性、存在的问题及原因进行分析,并为促进审计机关向社会购买审计服务提出相应对策。     

内部审计增值问题研究——以武汉钢铁公司为例

新时代背景下,我国的经济转型工作正处于重要时期,市场竞争愈来愈激烈,在修订后的一系列企业法律法规的约束下,企业会面临产业调整和经营理念转变等各项机遇和挑战。内部审计作为总体审计工作和公司治理的重要环节,对企业风险控制和危机管理等方面都起到了关键作用,有利于企业增值。国家审计署于2018年1月22日颁布了《审计署关于内部审计工作的规定(审计署令第11号)》并于同年3月1日开始施行,这就意味着增值型内部审计将在我国正式展开。内部审计将在市场经济中扮演怎样的角色以及如何发挥其增值的职能显然成为内部审计工作的关注重点。本文将从内部审计的定义和发展趋势入手,通过介绍增值型内部审计的优势层面,结合我国内部审计的现状以及武汉钢铁集团的现实应用,提出有关增值型内部审计实现路径的建议。     

Understanding gay consumers’ clothing involvement and fashion consciousness

This study’s primary objective was to provide a better understanding of gay consumers’ clothing involvement and fashion consciousness. Personal in‐depth interviews were conducted with 13 gay professionals in Canada. One hundred and forty‐five usable survey questionnaires were also collected from gay consumers. The Fashion Involvement Index Scale (FII scale) was adapted for this study. Interview participants indicated that, in general, gay men tend to be more fashion conscious than heterosexual men. Survey results also indicated two dimensions, fashion interest and fashion awareness that were found to be stronger for this group of gay consumers than for heterosexual men. The FII value for the survey participants also resulted in a sum score mean value of 11.2, a medium level of fashion involvement that is a slightly higher level than has been found for heterosexual consumers. Interestingly, this study does not provide strong evidence of gay consumers’ involvement in cutting‐edge fashion trends.     

我国效益审计问题浅析

当前我国效益审计发展比较迟缓,其主要原因是受现行审计体制的束缚。现行审计体制限制了审计机关对公共资金使用情况的监督,限制了审计重点从财务审计向效益审计的转移,限制了审计监督与人大立法监督的结合。而我国具有发展效益审计的客观必要性和有利的政治条件,应进一步改革和完善政治体制、审计体制,促进效益审计真正全面发展起来。