Elicitation of Expert Opinion in Benefit Transfer of Environmental Goods

Benefit transfer is a method for estimating the value of environmental goods that involves the use of past information on identical or similar goods. This paper considers the extent to which benefit transfer can be based on prior distributions elicited from expert opinion. We propose two alternative methods to elicit the parameters of a prior distribution from experts on environmental valuation. An experiment is carried out on the value of National Parks in Spain. The results from the elicited distributions are compared with the information provided by onsite samples of visitors. The results indicate that individual experts made different predictions about the potential value of the policy areas that were diverse and unable to accurately predict the value for each policy site. However, the average across the elicited distributions approaches the estimated distribution with empirical data and accurately predicts the relative values for the two policy sites considered.     

Audit opinion improvement and the timing of disclosure

Companies have been found to report positive information more quickly than they report negative information (i.e., good news early, bad news late). This paper investigates the potential impact of audit opinion change on the timeliness of financial disclosures, with improvements in audit opinion considered to be “good news.” We take both the direction and the magnitude of audit opinion change into consideration, with magnitude measuring how far the opinion is from an unqualified opinion (i.e., an unqualified opinion with explanatory paragraph is closer to an unqualified opinion than a qualified opinion is). We find that firms experiencing an improvement in their audit opinions disclose their financial results earlier, while those with audit opinion deteriorations report their financial results later, and that these effects were related to the magnitude of the opinion change. What's more, there is an asymmetric response to good audit opinion news vs. bad audit opinion news, with bad audit opinion news having a larger effect on earnings timeliness than the effect on earnings timeliness of good audit opinion news. Overall, our results support the “good news early, bad news late” notion. Finally, we also find that overall earnings timeliness has improved in China since the enactment of new reporting regulations in 2006.     

中期财务报告自愿审计的动机和市场反应分析——基于中国上市公司的经验数据

作为外部治理机制的审计是公司信息披露质量的重要保证,目前法规对上市公司中期财务报告的审计并无强制性法规要求,许多上市公司选择中期财务报表自愿审计,其行为是一种主动传递信息的过程。本文通过对我国上市公司2007至2010年证券市场自愿中报审计的经验数据分析,对公司自愿中报审计的动机和市场反应进行了实证研究。研究发现:公司中期财务报表自愿审计与公司的成长性和公司规模显著相关,且公司的财务状况和股权性质对公司的自愿审计有一定影响;同时,市场对上市公司中期财务报告自愿审计行为有一定的正面反应,但这种反应效力不足,且持续力较低。     

论高校经济责任审计

近年来,高校腐败现象时有发生,腐败案件呈现多发态势,高校领导干部的经济责任审计作为新时期干部监督管理的重要组成部分,对加强高校的党风廉政建设,改善经济管理,提高办学效益,正发挥越来越重要的作用。通过对高校经济责任审计现状与存在主要问题的剖析,从完善法律法规、规范评价标准、审计关1：2前移、加强队伍建设、组织协调配合、建立审计成果共享制度等方面提出了完善经济责任审计的建议和对策,在高校建立一套科学合理的经济责任审计长效机制,进一步推进高校经济责任审计工作的开展。     

论网络民意兴起的现实价值

网络民意是互联网时代民意表达的新形式,是现实民意在虚拟空间的延伸。网络民意的生成和流通依托于互联网与网络传播技术,网络媒介的传播结构和传播属性决定了网络民意具有民意表达主体的匿名性与平等性、表达方式的便捷性与符号性等特征。网络民意表达具有优化传统民意表达的主体结构,鼓励公众参与社会管理的积极性等现实价值。     

高校原始凭证的审核

原始凭证的审核是高校财务的基础工作,同时对会计人员来说是一项艰巨且具有挑战性的工作。原始凭证作为会计信息的基本信息源,其真实性、合法性、合理性、完整性、正确性、及时性对会计信息的质量具有至关重要的影响。会计人员应通过＂先看后想再计算＂的步骤对原始凭证进行严格审核。     

审计意见影响因素实证研究

基于2004-2007年上市公司财务数据,研究了审计意见的影响因素。公司的盈利能力、偿债能力对于审计意见类型有较大影响;ST公司及违规公司更可能获得非标准审计意见;而会计师事务所的规模与审计意见并不显著相关。     

云计算环境下的审计业务模式变革研究

云计算环境下的审计业务模式是未来审计信息化发展的必然趋势。在归纳了IT环境下审计业务模式演变并从IT和审计两个角度诠释“云审计”及其国内外研究应用现状的基础上,以审计业务流程为主线,从云服务与审计结合的技术场景、云计算环境下的审计业务流程实现步骤以及云计算应用所引起的审计业务风险变化三个方面出发,分析云计算环境下的审计业务模式变革,为掌握云计算应用所带来的审计业务流程变革、迎接云审计时代的到来提供理论基础。     

Understanding online firestorms: Negative word-of-mouth dynamics in social media networks

Social media are, on the one hand, a highly beneficial environment for word-of-mouth (WOM) propagation of new ideas and products, and this has increasingly made them a focus of marketing communications. On the other hand, companies and their brands as well as politicians, governmental institutions, and celebrities have increasingly been facing the impact of negative online WOM and complaint behavior. In reaction to any questionable statement or activity, social media users can create huge waves of outrage within just a few hours. These so-called online firestorms pose new challenges for marketing communications. In this article, we group observations from recent online firestorms, identify related social and economic science theories, and derive generalized factors that form the basis for the proliferation of these dynamics. Furthermore, we discuss the consequences of online firestorms for marketing communications, and offer courses of action for marketers to navigate through crises of negative online WOM.     

企业内部审计与外部审计趋同的机理研究

本文以史、论为经纬,以内生变量与外生变量为分析工具,通过推理,提出内部审计与外部审计存在趋同性的观点,揭示审计发展的内在规律,以此为实务部门充分利用内、外部审计的整合发展规律,提高现阶段总体审计质量与公司治理水平提供理论基础。