会计与审计：理论渊源与发展路径

会计与审计总是如影相随,20世纪50年代管理会计兴起的同时,管理审计也开始萌芽。现在看来,会计与审计发展的根本动因是受托责任,两者的终极目标是价值增值,财务会计和管理会计的融合是大势所趋,最终走向以价值链会计为核心的“泛会计”;财务审计和管理审计同样走向融合,最终走向以风险和治理为导向的增值审计。     

深化经济责任审计 促进领导干部科学履职

经济责任审计在促进领导干部践行科学发展观、科学履行领导职责方面发挥着重要作用。如何深化经济责任审计,促进领导干部科学履职：一要调整审计目标以适应科学发展观的要求;二要拓展审计内容以突出科学发展观的理念;三要创新审计方法以体现科学发展观的内涵;四要完善评价指标体系以促进科学发展观的践行。     

Public-Sector Accounting and E-Governance in Developing Countries: Case of Sri Lanka

This article analyzes how new public financial management system should address the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector and the emerging accrual basis accounting with e-governance for greater e-transparency on public-sector accounting in Sri Lanka. Despite the setting up of e-framework in 1983, the Sri Lankan public-sector accountancy environment during the last two decades raises concerns about efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the e-framework. The findings provide evidence of the importance of the economy and efficiency in the usage of public funds to provide more convenient access to government accounting information for citizens in Sri Lanka.     

Economic Governance,Accountability and Accounting Change in East Asia

The development of economic governance is now thought to require the remaking of respective accountabilities along with significant corresponding accounting change. On the basis of key discourses about a particular ‘critical’ period in East Asia's recent history, this article considers whether certain regional and individual country accountabilities were actually remade and whether the role of accounting changed accordingly. It finds that the preferred strategies governing economic recovery after the East Asian crisis were partial and incompletely realized. It concludes that ‘higher order’ governance has been unexpectedly problematic and requires more East Asian sourced research in future.     

完善连带责任制度建设的顶层设计探讨

完善连带责任制度的顶层设计,对制度的建设和发展具有极大的推动作用。连带责任制度的适用领域和数量会越来越广和越来越多,其结构会越来越完善、内含会越来越成熟。对于他可能带来的负面影响,会得到有效克服。文章从顶层设计的视角,对完善连带责任制度建设的多个问题进行了探讨,供法律工作者参考。     

我国环境执法不力的原因及对策

环境执法不力是当前污染排放居高不下的一个重要原因,环境执法不力既有主观原因,也有客观原因。应从5个方面改变环境执法不力：树立科学的发展观和正确的政绩观,落实环境目标责任制和责任追究制,加速环境管理体制改革,加强环境保护的刑事立法,对环境执法人员实行连带责任。     

Safeguarding public accountability in horizontal government

Abstract

The trend towards horizontalization in government prompts a debate on safeguarding public accountability. This article contributes to the debate by presenting categories of horizontalization in government, types of horizontal accountability and criteria for judging the appropriateness of arrangements for public accountability. Accountability arrangements must meet the requirements of the democratic constitutional state to provide adequate checks and balances. This implies, among other things, that responsibilities must be clear and the information supply, debate and sanctioning options must all be established. A discussion of existing mechanisms for horizontal accountability indicates that the requirements of a democratic constitutional state are generally not sufficiently met. This makes it imperative to establish more balanced arrangements for public accountability that fit more horizontal forms of government.     

基于受托责任视角的公司治理与内部审计关系分析

建立和完善公司治理结构是当前深化国有企业改革,建立现代企业制度的一项重要任务,健全和完善内部审计的监督机制是良好公司治理结构的内在要求。从所有权和经营权分离的角度,对受托责任的根源和内涵进行了分析探讨,以此为基础,分析了公司治理、内部审计与受托责任的本质关系,并从受托责任角度探讨了公司治理与内部审计的关系。     

Accountability in Crisis: The Sponsorship Scandal and the Office of the Comptroller General in Canada

For much of the last 50 years, a key platform animating public sector reform in Canada and elsewhere has been that efficiency and effectiveness can be achieved by adapting private sector financial management methods and practices. We argue that the recent re-establishment of the Office of the Comptroller General (OCG) of Canada represents a key element of a program of strengthening financial accountability that has emerged within the Canadian Federal Government. Although this program is longstanding and is associated Canada’s implementation of new public management initiatives, it has recently drawn particular sustenance from the sponsorship scandal in Canada. We demonstrate that the reincarnated OCG, re-established amid a rhetoric of “modernization” and of “strengthening” accountability, has a wide-ranging mandate to enhance financial and audit controls, create financial standards, nurture professional development, and oversee government spending. We explore some of the consequences of this development and of the broader financial accountability mechanisms introduced in response to the Sponsorship scandal within the Canadian public sector.