CFO背景特征对企业财务重述的影响——审计质量的调节效应

不同背景特征的CFO出具的财务报告质量可能存在差异,同时CFO工作容易受到企业管理者的干预,被迫增加后期财务重述的风险。通过选取2011—2018年全部A股上市企业数据,回归分析了CFO个人、专业和身份背景特征对企业财务重述发生概率的影响,发现高年龄、高学历、具有审计背景、不具有政治关联、CFO相对于CEO的权力差距小的CFO所在公司发生财务重述的概率相对更低。研究还发现审计质量仅对年龄特征、政治背景特征、CFO相对于CEO的权力差距对财务重述的影响产生调节作用,随着审计质量水平的提高,CFO年龄特征对企业财务重述的负影响将进一步增强,而CFO政治背景、与CEO权力差距对企业财务重述的正影响将得到进一步遏制。     

Why and how firms use operating cash flow in compensation**

This study considers the choice of operating cash flow (OCF) in contracts and further examines the sensitivity of the CFO's and CEO's compensation to OCF performance, conditional on our stylized indicator of the importance of working capital management (WCM). The analysis depicts OCF as conveying distinct information about WCM, and predicts that firms for which WCM is an important source of value are more likely to contract on OCF. The importance of WCM is instrumented by firm conditions that create strong demand for WCM, including large working capital, rapid growth in working capital, highly volatile working capital, and large debt relative to total assets. Using a sample of firms whose incentive plans explicitly include OCF measures and a control sample of firms without such plans, we show that all four indicators of the importance of WCM have positive association with the likelihood of contracting upon OCF, individually and collectively. In compensation regressions, we find that WCM importance has a pronounced positive effect on the weight of OCF, but muted effect on the weight of accrual earnings. The results suggest that firms include measures of OCF performance in contracts largely to provide incentives for WCM and internal cash generation.     

CFO权力与企业债务违约

本文从组织权力、专家权力、声誉权力、所有权权力四方面构建CFO综合权力指数,基于2008~2017年沪深A股数据,分析了CFO权力对企业债务违约概率的影响及作用机制。研究结果显示,CFO权力越大,企业债务违约概率越低,在控制内生性影响后,该结论仍然成立。进一步研究发现,具有较大权力的CFO通过降低业绩波动性和缓解融资约束来抑制企业发生债务违约。本文从CFO权力视角拓展了债务违约影响因素研究,对企业完善人力资源制度安排和降低债务违约风险具有一定的借鉴价值。     

CEO/CFO turnover and subsequent remediation of information technology material weaknesses

Adding to prior research on internal control material weaknesses (ICMW), our study investigates whether information technology material weaknesses (ITMWs) are associated with CEO/CFO turnover, and whether their turnover will promote subsequent remediation. We find that disclosures of ITMW are positively associated with CEO/CFO turnover; however, only CEO turnover promotes subsequent remediation. Our findings on ITMW are different from the prior findings on ICMW – aligned with prior research on ICMW, ITMWs are associated with CEO/CFO turnover; however, unlike prior research on ICMW suggests, dismissals of CFOs do not promote subsequent remediation of ITMW. Thus, future research should consider ICMW and ITMW separately in the examination of their consequences and remediation.     

Compensation practices in the lodging industry: Does top management pay affect corporate performance?

The current study examines the relationship between executive compensation and firm performance in the U.S. lodging industry. It is not clear-cut whether performance leads to compensation or compensation drives firm performance. Our contention is that cash and lagged equity-based compensation drive the firm performance. Our findings suggest that chief executive officer's (CEO) contemporaneous cash-compensation and one-year lagged equity-compensation positively affect the accounting performance measures return on assets and Tobin's Q; but neither compensation components affects the market-performance measure, stock returns, in the lodging industry. Quantitatively similar findings are found for the chief financial officer (CFO). Further robustness test show that further lags of equity compensation of both named executives do not result in increased stock performance in the lodging industry.     

Predicting earnings in a poor information environment

Financial intermediaries, such as analysts, play an important role in providing information to investors. However, a large segment of the market (about 39% of CRSP firms between 1992 and 2009) is not served by financial analysts, leaving investors in a poor information environment. In this paper, we examine whether other publicly available information signals, such as insider trades, institutional holdings, and firms’ stock repurchases, can be used to predict information about earnings for these firms. We find that CFOs’ trading decisions are associated with new information contained in the annual earnings reports for firms with no or scant analyst coverage. In contrast, for firms with multiple analyst coverage, insider trading decisions are not predictive of new information in earnings reports. Our results suggest that some public information signals, such as insider trades, can be used to alleviate the poor information environment faced by investors. However, the market may not have fully priced the information contained in these signals.     

Executive Turnover,Gender, And Earnings Management: An Exploratory Analysis

This paper examines the relationship between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) turnover and earnings management. Based on cross‐sectional panel regressions on a three‐year sample of the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 1500 firms, the following findings are reported: (1) CFO turnover is accompanied by income‐decreasing earnings management; (2) discretionary accruals tend to become more negative when a male CFO is replaced by a female; (3) earnings management increases income if the outgoing CFO is a female and the incoming is a male and in the case of male–male CFO changes. Overall, these results indicate that the firms who hire a female CFO after a male tend to shift toward more conservative financial reporting practices.     

不同发展阶段新创企业创业者胜任力与创业团队成员信任关系研究

基于胜任力理论和创业动态观,实证检验了不同维度创业者胜任力对创业团队成员认知信任和情感信任的差异性影响效应,以及可能随着新创企业不同发展阶段而呈现的阶段性特征。结果表明,创业者的创业胜任力和管理胜任力有助于提升创业团队成员的认知信任,而创业者的社交胜任力,包括社交知觉与社交适应力可以促进创业团队成员情感信任的发展。此外,随着新创企业从初创期进入早期成长阶段,创业者的创业胜任力对创业团队成员认知信任的影响有所下降,而管理胜任力对创业团队成员认知信任的影响有所提高。     

非标准审计意见与高管更换的相关性检验——基于2002年—2009年中国A股上市公司的实证研究

运用统计分析及Logit模型回归,以2002年—2009年中国上市公司高管CEO、CFO更换数据为依据,研究了CEO、CFO更换和非标准审计意见的相关性,发现CEO、CFO更换与全样本非标准审计意见呈显著正相关;CEO、CFO更换与上市公司首次被出具非标准审计意见呈显著正相关;CEO、CFO更换与上市公司第二次被出具非标准审计意见的相关性不显著;CFO更换与CEO更换呈显著正相关。同时还检验了CEO、CFO更换与各控制变量的相关性。     

论企业财务总监职能定位及实现

企业资本的不同特点、公司治理结构的功能、企业的契约关系等决定将财务总监的职能定位为财务监督、参与决策、协调关系。为了保证财务总监职能的充分实现,使其发挥出最大的作用,需要采取以下措施:尽量选择稳定的中小股东作财务总监或使财务总监成为股东;完善对财务总监的激励和监督;划清财务总监与经营者的权责,并将责权利相结合;提高财务总监素质;改善企业环境。