民营企业内部审计的完善探析

民营企业作为社会主义市场经济的重要组成部分,对我国经济起着巨大的推动作用,建立健全内部审计制度是民营企业发展壮大的内在要求,本文分析了民营企业内部审计所面临的困难和问题,并提出了解决问题的对策。     

Locating audit expectations gap within a cultural context: The case of Saudi Arabia

This paper offers an insight into the types of ‘audit expectations gap’ that exist within a cultural context. Specifically, it investigates if the business and social environment affect the perceptions of audit performance of users and auditors. Using a combination of mail questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, the study reveals the existence of a ‘performance gap’ with respect to the roles specified in the statutory pronouncements and those that can reasonably be expected of auditors in Saudi Arabia. The results further indicate the ‘performance gap’ arises from four factors in the environment within which auditing is practiced: licensing policy, recruitment process, the political and legal structure, and dominant societal values. Interview results reveal the influence of institutional and cultural settings on the audit expectations gap and indicate that the inclusion of Islamic principles in auditing standards and the code of ethics would help reduce the expectations gap that exists in Saudi Arabia.     

General theory of cost minimization strategies of continuous audit of databases

The minimization of cost is an important issue in the domain of continuous auditing (CA) research [Pathak Jagdish, Chaouch Ben, Sriram Ram, 2005. Minimizing cost of continuous audit: Counting and time dependent strategies. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 24(1), 61–75]. This cited study of continuous audit of databases motivated us to work further and provide a general, complete and precise solution. In the present study, we propose an efficient algorithm in terms of long term cost for counting and periodic strategies of continuous auditing as suggested by Pathak et al. study. The improved algorithms contribute to accounting literature in general and continuous audit in particular in the form of general theory proposed for minimizing the cost of CA of databases.     

浅谈计算机会计信息系统下的审计

随着计算机技术在会计领域的广泛应用，对传统审计产生很大的影响，主要表现在两个方面，即外部环境的变化给审计带来的影响和内部控制的变化给审计带来的影响。审计工作者应采取相应措施以降低审计风险。     

浅谈财政性投资项目的工程结算审核

财政性投资项目的工程结算审核工作，作为财政职能的延伸，对提高财政资金使用效益，维护国家利益和建设单位、施工单位的正当合法权益起着非常重要的作用。分析了目前财政性投资项目，特别是一些小型项目在工程结算审核中存在的主要问题，就如何提高财政性投资项目工程的结算审核质量提出了对策。     

An experimental study of users’ responses to qualified audit reports in China

This paper presents the results of an experimental study on users’ responses to the qualification of audit reports in China. By employing the type of audit report (e.g., unqualified vs. qualified auditor opinion) as a manipulated variable in the experiment, we found mixed responses from the participants towards the perceived impact of a qualified audit report on users’ understanding and use of the financial statements. In general, Chinese users, credit and loan officers in particular, perceived a qualified auditor opinion as having a somewhat negative impact on the credibility of financial statements. However, no significant difference was found in users’ investment or credit decisions with respect to their exposure to the financial statements accompanied by an unqualified or a qualified auditor opinion. The study findings suggest that the U.S.-style qualified audit reports have fairly limited “information content” to users in the present Chinese auditing environment and that there is a need to further improve Chinese auditing standards and practices. In addition, the study provides some insights into recent auditing developments in China.     

试论新形势下我国银行内部控制建设

本文在我国银行业逐步走向国际化、市场化,金融工具不断创新,金融电子化规模不断扩大的新形势下,紧密结合金融运行实践,分析了内部控制建设面临的新情况及新问题;对如何加强银行内部控制建设进行了深入的研究和探讨;对于强化银行自我约束功能,防范金融风险有着重要指导作用.     

Controlling the incentive problems in real estate leasing

This paper develops a formal model that characterizes potential conflicts of interest between real-estate landlords and tenants. The model demonstrates a tenant's incentive to undermaintain or overuse (i.e., abuse) a leased property while highlighting the moral hazard problem as a cause of the failure of the lease irrelevance proposition. As a consequence, the lease irrelevance proposition's faiure implies that if tenant abuse incentives are left unrestricted, the market for leased real estate may cease to function.The efficacies of various lease arrangements suggested by Smith and Wakeman (1985) and other researchers in controlling the tenant abuse incentives are evaluated in this framework as a means of counteracting the inherent problems. Our analysis supports the greater use of variable lease schemes (e.g., security deposits and penalty clauses), which peg real-estate lease rates to the level of property abuse rather than more traditional fixed payment contracting arrangements.     

存货、应收账款与审计舞弊风险相关性的检验——基于我国上市公司的全样本和舞弊公司配对样本的检验

选取了2001年到2005年在上海和深圳证券交易所上市交易的A股公司作为研究样本,对样本采用两种方法进行处理,一种是采用全样本剔除极端值得到样本后进行检验,另一种是采用舞弊公司的配对样本进行检验。对相关公司违规处理数据的检验表明,上市公司应收账款越多,舞弊风险越大;存货与舞弊风险整体上没有明确的相关性,只是在部分行业呈现出显著的正相关关系。     

国外企业社会责任标准在中国的推行状况研究

自从上世纪90年代初跨国公司开始对中国企业进行社会责任相关验厂活动以来，越来越多的国外社会责任标准及相关的认证活动进入中国。但是，企业社会责任标准作为国际社会责任运动的一种基本方式，在中国虽取得一定的发展，整体推行效果却不甚理想。而国际标准化组织社会责任国际标准ISO26000的发布，又给这些标准的推行带来不确定因素，使社会责任标准推行面临新的考验。