Evaluating a method of integrating generic skills with accounting content based on a functional theory of meaning

This paper documents and evaluates an intervention designed to integrate the learning of selected generic skills, particularly analytical thinking and written communication skills, with the learning of accounting content. The method used was to scaffold practice in analytical thinking skills through specially designed writing activities. Content‐focused learning materials adapted from task‐types currently used to teach language skills were used to facilitate the analysis and interrelation of accounting concepts, principles and problems in interpersonal communicative contexts typical of actual accounting practice. The materials, in three assignments, were designed to incorporate: (i) selected generic skills, taken from those listed by the professional accounting bodies; (ii) writing, both as communication and as an instrument for analytical thinking and learning; (iii) knowledge of accounting concepts and principles; and (iv) awareness of the interpersonal dimensions of professional communication. Overall, students showed improved learning outcomes, with improvements of 19 percentage points for non‐Australian students over the three assignments. We were also able to show significant positive relationships between the assessments of assignments 2 and 3 and performance in the knowledge‐based final examination. Improvements in the quality of learning were shown in students’ improved ability to assess their own work.     

信息熵与灰关联度评价方法在电信重组中的应用

电信业存在的问题需要通过重组来解决.电信业的特点,适合采用信息熵和灰关联分析方法来评价重组方案.以构建有效竞争格局为目的,介绍了信息熵与灰关联度方法的建模步骤,并以例子说明了该方法的具体应用.     

我国开征不动产税与增强地方政府公共服务能力的思考

在物质生活基本得到满足的情况下．老百姓对医疗、教育、社会保障、公共安全以及环境保护等公共产品和公共服务的需求越来越突出，对地方政府的目标要求也不再是发展经济这一单一目标，而是更加强调其公共服务的能力。地方政府的公共服务能力在很大程度上取决于其收入能力。本文将探讨不动产税改革将如何在增强地方政府公共服务能力中发挥作用，并针对开征不动产税过程可能遇到的难点问题，提出相关对策建议。     

评审专家抽取中的时间距离约束分析

针对现有评审专家抽取中距离约束存在的不足,本文提出了一种新的时间距离约束。本文介绍了时间距离的含义及其提出的必要性,并给出了基于GIS技术的时间距离计算方法,具体包括相关假设、计算步骤、解决方案以及实现过程。时间距离约束的提出不仅可以保证所有被选专家都可按时到达评审地点,而且还能打破行政区域的限制,合理调配专家资源,具有重要的现实意义。     

The UK technology foresight programme: An assessment of expert estimates

Since the early 1990s, ‘Technology Foresight’ exercises with special emphasis on the use of Delphi surveys have played an important role in science and technology (S + T) policy across Europe in an effort to focus resource allocation. Yet, none of the estimates made in the European Delphi surveys have been formally assessed in retrospect, while this process has been incorporated into the Japanese surveys since 1996. Taking the UK Technology Foresight Programme, this research sets out to assess the estimates of three of the fifteen panel Delphi surveys. Whilst on average 2/3 of Delphi statements were predicted to be realised by 2004, it will be shown that only a fraction of these statements had been realised by 2006. Based on the evidence collected from the published panel reports, the ‘Hindsight on Foresight’ survey conducted by OST in 1995 and interviews with panel members, it will be argued that the overwhelming majority of estimates were overly optimistic. While optimism and strategic gaming of experts is the most convincing explanation for these results, process factors were also explored, including the quality of expert panels used, the Delphi statements and the respondents of the Delphi questionnaire. It is argued that at least the issue of short-range optimism and strategic gaming of experts should be addressed in future Delphi exercises, as decision makers relying on expert advice cannot deal with this issue alone.     

构建基于逻辑模型的财政支出绩效评价体系——以农业财政支出为例

现有评价指标较少对财政支出的整个过程进行评价,难以全面反映财政支出的真实绩效。将逻辑模型引入指标设计中,从“投入—产出—中短期结果—长期结果”四个层面构建财政支出绩效评价指标体系,可更好地体现绩效评价的经济、效率和效果原则。     

从竞争战略角度评估城市商业银行价值

由于商业银行是一个经营货币的服务型企业,其盈利模式、资产负债结构与生产型企业及非银行金融企业有很大不同,而且银行的行业性质非常特殊。因此,从战略角度评估银行价值是非常必要的。     

新疆城镇居民国内潜在出游力的地区差异分析

本文在分析潜在出游力的影响因素基础上,用主成份分析法简化影响因素的结构,得出了收入水平、交通通讯水平与消费水平是影响各地区城镇居民潜在出游力的基本因素。并通过综合评价法来描述新疆各地州市城镇居民潜在出游力的差异状况,从而为旅游企业开展客源市场提供可靠依据。     

A model to evaluate the effectiveness of enterprise training programmes

This paper describes a model developed to measure customer satisfaction with enterprise training programmes. Based on developments in customer satisfaction and quality measurement, it is proposed as an alternative to the training evaluation model developed by Kirkpatrick (1959). A single indicator, a Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI), quantifies the level of satisfaction with each training programme. The model also measures the individual parameters that contribute to the CSI, as well as their relative importance. It facilitates a benchmarking process regarding these parameters and between training programmes. The development process of the model is described, as is its use in practice.     

日本独立行政法人制度与企业制度比较研究

本文就日本的独立行政法人制度与企业制度,从运行机制、资金来源与管理、人事制度以及评价机制等几个方面进行了探讨。