Financial reporting consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from the impact of resource constraints at audit offices on non-affected clients

Disaster-affected clients demand significant additional effort from their audit office, and hence strain the audit office’s resources available to other non-disaster-affected clients. We consider audit offices with disaster-affected clients to be strained offices and find that, compared with clients audited by non-strained audit offices, non-disaster-affected clients audited by strained audit offices are more likely to have their financial statements restated. This result suggests the financial reporting quality of companies not directly exposed to disasters could also be negatively affected by the disasters, due to their auditors’ strained-resource issue. We further find such a negative effect is more pronounced when the degree of resource constraints is greater and when the audit office lacks client experience or industry expertise. We offer novel evidence of financial reporting consequences of natural disasters, focusing on the externality of disasters on companies not directly affected by disasters. The findings have important implications for regulators in making disaster-related policies, for auditors in managing their client portfolios, and for companies in making auditor choice decisions.     

SERVCON: development and validation of a multidimensional service convenience scale

As customers have demanded greater convenience in service exchanges, researchers have responded by incorporating the convenience construct into their conceptual models and empirical studies, but a comprehensive, formally validated measure of convenience remains lacking. This study conceptualizes service convenience as a second-order, five-dimensional construct that reflects consumers’ perceived time and effort in purchasing or using a service. Service convenience dimensions are salient at different stages of the purchase decision process. Given this conceptualization, the study presents the development and validation of the SERVCON scale, a comprehensive instrument for measuring service convenience. The five dimensions are independent within a nomological network that illustrates distinct antecedent and consequent effects, and the results reinforce the multidimensional representation, offering insight into the distinctive relationships between each service convenience dimension and its antecedents, such as competitive intensity, and consequences, such as repurchase behavior. The findings help researchers and managers understand a fully conceptualized convenience construct and facilitate the measurement of convenience in future empirical studies.     

我国当前就业形势、成因与对策

我国当前就业形势非常严峻,城镇失业率已超过7％的警戒线,并有继续加大的趋势,其根源在于劳动力供给与需求失衡。我们应实行积极的就业政策,一方面增加劳动力需求,保持国民经济持续增长,调整经济结构;另一方面减缓劳动力供给,发展多层次教育,完善职业培训制度,建立劳动力流动的市场机制,完善社会保障制度等。     

人力资本对非农就业收入的影响——基于村庄内外的视角

利用山西省2004年3 506名农村居民的抽样调查数据,比较分析了人力资本对劳动力村内、村外非农就业收入的影响。在进行OLS估计,考虑到可能出现的选择性偏误,使用Heckman二阶段模型进行纠正后发现,无论是在村内还是在村外,受教育年数对非农就业收入均有显著的正向影响;受过职教培训与劳动力村内非农就业收入具有显著的负向关系,但其对村外非农就业收入的促进作用却十分明显;拥有技术职称在村内取得了显著的收入回报;健康对于村内非农就业收入的影响并不十分明显,但在村外,健康成为重要的影响变量。     

天津商业大学本科教学质量监控体系的构建与实践

本文对天津商业大学本科教学质量监控体系的构建和实践进行了阐述。构建一个系统化、科学化的教学质量监控体系必须坚持人和管理的指导思想,充分考虑构建教学质量体系的目标性、全员性、系统性和全程性原则。依据构建教学质量监控体系和原则,学校构建了由教学管理指挥系统、教学评估系统和教学监督系统组成的教学质量监控体系,经过多年的实践取得了良好的效果。     

美国高校教师聘任制的研究与启示

从实际操作流程、主要形式、评审考核等方面对美国高校教师聘任制进行了认真的剖析和研究,以期对我国的高校教师聘任制有所启示与借鉴。     

基于偏离度分析法的江苏省旅游就业潜力预测

当前，旅游业的就业功能受到广泛关注和普遍重视，预测和把握旅游就业潜力对促进一个国家和地区旅游业的发展乃至国民经济的发展意义重大。在借鉴已有相关研究成果的基础上，以江苏省为例，运用偏离度分析法对其旅游就业潜力进行了具体测算，以期对江苏省旅游就业工作的发展有所裨益。     

中国OFDI影响出口的质量效应与成本效应研究——基于异质性产品价格分解模型

基于异质性产品价格分解模型，运用联合国UN Comtrade 2003-2016年产品-目的国层面出口数据，考察中国OFDI影响本国出口的质量效应和成本效应。研究发现：中国OFDI显著提升了出口产品质量，并对出口产品成本产生降低作用。从目的国收入看，金融危机前，中国OFDI对出口质量的提升以及对出口产品成本的降低作用，主要通过对高收入和中高收入国家的投资实现；而金融危机后，则主要通过对中低收入国家的投资实现。从产品类型看，中国OFDI显著提高了差异性产品和中间产品的出口质量，并对两类产品的成本产生降低作用；但对同质性产品和最终产品，只对其出口产品成本存在显著降低作用，对出口质量的提升作用不显著。因此，以投资带动贸易仍然是推动中国外贸高质量发展的有效举措。     

素质教育中高校班主任工作的思考

应试教育向素质教育转变，给高校班主任工作和班主任素质提出了要求。高校必须重视班主任素质提高，不断开创班主任工作新的局面。     

提高新建本科院校教学质量水平的探讨

教学质量是高校得以生存和发展的关键之所在。该文以嘉兴学院教学质量建设为个案,探索了加强新建本科高校教学质量建设的有效途径。