基于规模经济和代理成本的“审计盈亏平衡点”探讨

会计师事务所审计质量与规模正相关这个观点在国外理论和实证领域已得到了广泛支持，在我国却并非如此。本文在分析规模经济和代理成本封会计师事务所审计质量影响的基础上，建立了关于事务所规模和审计质量控制完善程度的审计质量函数，通过分析推导得出在我国目前审计市场中存在“审计盈亏平衡点”，在该平衡点处审计质量最高。本文认为在我国目前审计质量控制不完善的审计市场申，中等规模的会计师事务所理论上拥有最高的审计质量。     

Legal Liabilities, Audit Accuracy and the Market for Audit Services

In quality-differentiated audit markets with client-firms of unknown types, insider-managers of client firms strategically select auditors who respond to legal liabilities to decide their care level. In this signaling game, uninformed-investors use the audit report and the auditors' identity for firm valuation. The analysis shows that increased legal liability increases the auditor's effort and audit accuracy but reduces the demand for high quality auditing because, apart from the increased audit costs, the adverse selection benefit of the worse type reduces with increased accuracy. Furthermore, alternative legal regimes and damage allocation rules alter informational efficiency of the financial market.     

担保链中企业审计报告--持续经营审计状况及一种新的审计意见变通行为

一种新的审计意见变通行为虽然不试图改变审计意见的性质，但是却用相对较轻微的事实代替实际已经存在的较为严重的问题作为发表审计意见的依据。这显然会误导投资者。     

批评报道采写过程中应坚持的原则

批评报道与“以正确舆论引导人”的正面报道同等重要。但由于主客观原因 ,批评报道往往困难重重。为此做好批评报道这篇文章需坚持七项原则 :认识正确 ,出发点明确 ,用事实说话 ,反面文章正面做 ,把握分寸 ,注意语言表达和顶住说情风。     

The Market for External Audit Services in the Public Sector: An Empirical Analysis of NHS Trusts

This study investigates the market for audit services in the UK National Health Service (NHS). The market has a number of interesting features, including the presence of the Audit Commission as a regulator, appointer and provider of audit services. Following a theoretical overview of audit pricing in the NHS, evidence is provided on the behaviour of private sector auditors in an environment where audit risk characteristics differ from the private sector. The research also investigates, for the first time in the public sector, the relationship between audit fees and non–audit (consultancy) fees. Comparisons are also drawn between audit fees in the public and private sectors in an analysis of audit fees by industry. Despite some key similarities, the study shows that a number of differences exist between private and public sector audit fee models. In particular, we find no evidence of Big 6 (or mid–tier) auditor premiums, but we do find a significant negative relationship between audit and consultancy fees providing support for the 'knowledge spill–over' hypothesis. In addition, the fees charged to trusts appear significantly lower than their private sector counterparts, despite trust auditors having additional duties to perform. Possible explanations for this finding are offered in the paper.     

Internal governance structures and earnings management

This paper investigates the role of a firm's internal governance structure in constraining earnings management. It is hypothesized that the practice of earnings management is systematically related to the strength of internal corporate governance mechanisms, including the board of directors, the audit committee, the internal audit function and the choice of external auditor. Based on a broad cross‐sectional sample of 434 listed Australian firms, for the financial year ending in 2000, a majority of non‐executive directors on the board and on the audit committee are found to be significantly associated with a lower likelihood of earnings management, as measured by the absolute level of discretionary accruals. The voluntary establishment of an internal audit function and the choice of auditor are not significantly related to a reduction in the level of discretionary accruals. Our additional analysis, using small increases in earnings as a measure of earnings management, also found a negative association between this measure and the existence of an audit committee.     

论委托人与独立审计关系的变革

审计关系中委托者的选择是影响独立审计质量的根本因素。本文研究发现审计关系随着社会经济、企业制度的发展而变化，当今的审计关系较独立审计产生之时已发生了严重变异，公司管理层既是委托者又是被审计者的双重角色，被审计者与审计者的直接利益关系，使独立审计名不副实。只有变革现行的审计关系，以代表公众利益的政府作为委托人，才能做到公正客观、不存私心，使独立审计主体真正独立。     

浅析内部审计与外部审计的协调

本文在分析内部审计与外部审计关系的基础上,探讨了内部审计与外部审计协调的必要性和可行性。     

证券市场审计有效需求不足与审计失败的分析

本文从审计需求方的角度,分析了我国证券市场审计失败的重要原因在于缺乏有效的审计需求,并对其进行了深层次的分析,为治理审计失败、提高审计质量提出了相关的政策建议。     

非现场审计的理论框架研究

非现场审计于20世纪在国外兴起,我国90年代后期率先在金融系统应用。它既是新经济时代条件下的产物,也是审计现代化的必然要求。它产生于企业的自发需求,因而应加大其在国家审计、民间审计、内部审计中适的应用。为了有效地运用和推广非现场审计,业界首先必须在理论上对其定义、目标、职能、方法、程序等进行准确定位。本文试图对这些问题进行探讨,并提出了一系列的建议仅供参考。