我国上市公司CFO的现状及成长研究

在现代公司治理之中,CFO是一个不可或缺的职位,担任着公司的管理者以及总管家的角色,是企业日常经营和重大决策时不可缺少的高级参谋。一种观点认为CFO这个职位理应由财务人员担任,想当然地认为CFO中多数都是精通财务的老会计。本文研究CFO的成长之路上,什么才是最重要的。研究的结果发现,在样本选取的范围内,具有会计背景的CFO仅占了总数的18%。也就是说CFO这个职位并不是主要由财务人员担任,这主要是由于财务人员和CFO的工作重心存在着很大的不同,因此两者对任职人员的素质要求也存在很大不同。最后本文对CFO的成长之路上比较重要的要素做了总结,并对有志成为CFO的人士提出了建议。     

CFO在公司治理中的角色定位

CFO正在使公司财务管理的传统地位发生革命性的变化：他们参与公司经营的全过程，并以一种真正的伙伴关系与CEO一起进行决策。CFO立足于股东和经营管理者之间，是公司重要战略决策的制定者和执行者之一。CFO制度是现代企业制度的重要组成部分并保证现代企业制度的执行效果。本文从原始的公司治理理论入手，探寻现代公司治理对CFO的要求、CFO的责任及相应的角色定位。     

论企业科学管理中首席财务官的角色定位

文章从国内外CFO现状入手,提出了中国CFO的角色需要重新定位,并从我国国情、改善法制环境、加强行业监管、提高CFO自身素质等方面,提出了逐步完善我国CFO制度的措施.     

CFO的背景特征与会计信息质量——基于中国财务重述公司的经验证据

文章以财务重述公司为低会计信息质量的研究样本,探讨了CFO背景特征与会计信息质量的关系。研究发现,CFO的财务专长(是CPA)与会计信息质量正相关,CFO是女性的企业会计信息质量更高。进一步的研究发现,CFO的财务专长(是CPA)不仅有助于降低会计差错发生的概率,而且有助于降低会计差错发生的频率。研究结论肯定了CFO在财务报告中的作用,为监管部门治理会计信息失真提供了经验佐证。     

Chief financial officer demographic characteristics and fraudulent financial reporting in China

We investigate whether management's cognitions, values and perceptions are associated with fraud for 18 863 firm‐years for Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2014. Demographic characteristics of the chief financial officer (CFO) are used as proxies for management's cognitions, values and perceptions. We find that fraudulent financial reporting is higher when CFOs are younger, male, and have lower education backgrounds. An analysis of inflated earnings, fictitious assets, material omissions and other material misstatements provide similar results, with the exception that CFOs with higher education levels are associated with more inflated earnings.     

Seeing is believing? Executives' facial trustworthiness,auditor tenure,and audit fees

Psychology and neuroscience studies document that facial trustworthiness perceptions may affect observers' decision-making process. Our study examines whether auditors' perceptions of client executives' facial trustworthiness are associated with their audit fee decisions. We employ a machine-learning-based face-detection algorithm to measure executives' facial trustworthiness. We find that auditors charge 5.6% less audit fee to firms with trustworthy-looking CFOs than to those with untrustworthy-looking CFOs in initial audit engagements. Auditor tenure weakens the negative association between CFOs' facial trustworthiness and audit fee. Further evidence shows that CFO's facial trustworthiness is associated with neither financial reporting quality nor litigation risk.     

CFO gender and financial reporting transparency in banks

We investigate the effect of CFO gender on the timeliness of loan loss provision (LLP) reporting using a large sample of US banks from 2007 to 2016. Our findings show that women CFOs are associated with timelier forward-looking provisioning than men counterparts, suggesting that they follow a more transparent approach to financial reporting policies. Our results hold under different model specifications, including the use of bank and CEO fixed effects. We further address endogeneity concerns by showing that the timeliness of LLP reporting improves significantly for banks experiencing a man-followed-by-woman CFO transition. Overall, our study supports the notion that women CFOs are associated with higher financial reporting transparency and provides further insights into how CFO gender affects risk-aversion and ethics in banks, with wider implications about the importance of women’s representation in the finance-based industry.     

Does Concentrated Founder Ownership Affect Related Party Transactions? Evidence from an Emerging Economy

This study examines the impact of concentrated founder ownership on related party transactions (RPTs) for Indian firms. We find that concentrated founder ownership is positively related to RPTs and is more likely to encourage RPTs that are beneficial for the minority shareholders. We also observe that RPTs are associated with higher firm value. This relationship is more pronounced for business group firms and firms with more highly concentrated founder ownership. We show that the reputation incentive plays a very important role in founders’ decisions, and they use RPTs as an efficient transaction mechanism.     

战略管理背景下的CFO角色定位与素质提升

随着企业内外部环境的变化和战略管理理念的风靡,传统的财务管理已不能满足企业战略管理的需要,因此不少学者提出了战略财务管理以适应新形势的发展。而CFO作为企业财务的主要管理者,必须从基本职能层面上进行变革,重新定位,注重素质提升以满足企业战略发展的需要。笔者结合长期的金融从业背景和多年的CFO工作经验,谈谈在新环境、新背号下任职CFO的心得和体会。     

风险资本对家族企业成长绩效的影响

基于代际传承视角,利用2006-2014年A股上市家族企业年度数据,检验风险资本对不同代际家族企业成长绩效的影响,并进一步分析这种影响在不同外部条件下是否存在差异以及存在何种差异。结果表明,风险资本对创始家族企业和后代家族企业成长绩效的影响存在显著差异,对创始家族企业成长绩效的消极作用显著低于后代家族企业。进一步检验发现,当风险资本持股比例较低、在企业扩张期与获利期进入以及企业所在地区市场成熟度较高时,风险资本对创始家族企业成长绩效的积极作用显著高于后代家族企业。