CEO's financial experience and earnings management

We study whether Chinese CEOs with financial experience engage in more earnings management or less earnings management than those without such experience. In doing so, we distinguish between accrual-based earnings management and real earnings management. Overall, we find that CEOs with financial experience tend to do less real earnings management, while we find no evidence that they do either more or less accrual-based earnings management. Our findings tend to confirm that CEOs with financial experience provide more precise earnings information and higher quality financial statements.     

Consistency and asymptotic normality of maximum likelyhood estimators

Abstract

Let the random variable X denote the time taken in completion of a process. For a fixed a, if the observed value of X is less than a, the X is observable, but if X is greater than a, the process is tampered with and is accelerated or decelerated at time a by some unknown factor α, and Y=a+α(X-a) is observed. If the experimenter has only partial control over the experiment, it may be difficult to get several observations on Y corresponding to the same a value. Thus we have a set of independent but not identically distributed observations. The large sample behavior of m.l.e. of the unknown parameters based on tampered random variables Y ^b1 , ..., Y ^bn is studied. If X follows an exponential distribution with mean (1/--), ... the consistency and asymptotic normality of the m.l.e. of α and -- is established under mild conditions on a ^b1, a ^b2, ... The conditions needed for establishing the consistency of m.l.e. of lX are given when X follows a uniform distribution U(O, --) or when X has any known distributional form     

国有企业工作经历、企业家才能与企业成长

人力资本的高效配置和企业家才能的充分发挥关系到经济的可持续发展,制度建设如果能促进资源合理流向具有企业家才能的企业家,就能创造更多就业和社会财富。基于全国1997—2016年的私营企业调查数据,本文考察企业家的国有企业工作经历对企业成长的影响。研究结果显示,企业家的国有企业工作经历使得企业在市场扩张和盈利能力等方面表现更好,带来了更高水平的企业成长。机制讨论表明,企业家行为带有明显的烙印效应,国有企业工作经历为企业家带来了更多的社会资本和更高的公司治理水平,从而促进了企业成长。为了缓解由于选择性偏误等带来的内生性,本文采用倾向得分匹配、处理效应模型、代理变量、双差分模型等方法进行处理,结论仍然稳健。中国经济要向资源配置效率改善型模式转变,企业家才能的发挥至关重要,国有企业改革不仅应注重产权等方面的改革,同时也要充分重视国有企业改革带来的人力资本溢出效应。在不断深化国有企业改革的大背景下,本文从企业家才能培育和人力资本配置效应的角度考察国有企业改革问题,倡导国有企业改革进程中进一步营造企业家才能发挥的空间和制度安排,提高人力资本配置效应,从而促进中国经济健康可持续发展。     

利率市场化对商业银行影响的经验及启示——以台湾为例

利率市场化的加速推进给国内城商行的经营发展带来深刻的影响。国内利率市场化遵循渐进改革思路,与台湾地区利率市场化具有相似之处,经历14年的利率市场化改革,台湾银行业在低利差的环境下通过推进组织流程优化来提升运营效率;强化金融服务手段来改善资金来源结构,从而降低资金成本;依托金融控股公司平台,发挥整合行销效益,扩大客户基础;积极调整优化资产结构,大力拓展民营企业和消费金融业务等举措实现发展转型及安全稳健经营。台湾银行业的发展经验值得国内城商行借鉴。     

美国货币市场基金发展及商业银行应对的经验和启示

美国货币市场基金在利率市场化进程中扮演了非常重要的角色,成为利率市场化的助推器。本文回顾了美国利率市场化完成阶段货币市场基金的发展过程和商业银行的应对措施,分析了利率市场化对货币市场基金和商业银行的影响,吸取其经验和教训,对我国适时适度地推进利率市场化改革,防范利率市场化进程中的金融风险,有效加强货币市场基金监管和促进商业银行健康发展具有重要的借鉴意义。     

The effectiveness of interactive professional learning experiences as a pedagogical tool: Evidence from an audit setting

This paper describes an interactive professional learning experience (IPLE) and provides guidance for implementing an IPLE in an audit classroom. The IPLE described in this paper exposes students to a realistic practice environment within the classroom by bringing practitioners together with students in a professional supervisory setting. Practitioners review students’ work and then meet with students one-on-one to provide feedback on their work. We also document evidence of the pedagogical value of an IPLE by using a between-subjects experimental design in which learning outcomes for participants are compared to a control group that received the same instructions and completed the same written assignment, but did not participate in the professional interaction. In addition, pre- and posttests of students’ audit knowledge allowed for a within-subjects self-assessment of knowledge acquisition. The results strongly suggest that participation in the IPLE improves students’ performance on a skills test of relevant audit material and increases their self-perceptions of knowledge gained. In addition, results indicate that both students and audit professionals consider the IPLE a positive professional learning experience.     

会计师事务所人力资本特征与审计质量——来自中国资本市场的经验证据

人力资本在会计师事务所中具有十分重要的意义。本文利用2009年我国会计师事务所及其非金融类上市公司客户的数据,以操控性应计额度量审计质量,检验会计师事务所中注册会计师所占比重以及注册会计师的学历、年龄、参加行业领军人才培训情况等人力资本特征对审计质量的影响,结果发现,在我国本土事务所中,注册会计师的年龄以及入选行业领军人才培训计划的人数与正向的操控性应计额之间存在显著的负向关系,这表明,会计师事务所中注册会计师的经验丰富程度和对培训的重视程度对于抑制客户的正向盈余管理行为、提高审计质量具有积极作用。文章没有发现会计师事务所中注册会计师的比重以及注册会计师中高学历者所占比重与审计质量之间存在显著关系的证据。     

农产品自主品牌塑造探究

本文采用SWOT分析法进行农产品分析,从美学体验、象征性体验及情感体验来解析品牌表现的多种可行性,对农产品资源的特点进行品牌设计体验特征解析,从而得到从生态特点、旅游产业、历史文化中塑造自主品牌的途径。     

Is prior director experience valuable?

Previous studies have investigated the effectiveness of directors in performing their monitoring and advising functions by examining characteristics such as independence, qualifications and professional expertise. In this study, we propose a more direct measure of director effectiveness – prior experience as a director. Using hand‐collected data from Australia, we find that both the depth (number of prior years) and breadth (number of current directorships) of a new appointee’s director experience is valued by shareholders at appointment. In particular, the market reaction is highest for appointees with the most prior director experience (two or more other current directorships in listed companies and four or more years of director experience) and when experienced appointees join less‐experienced boards.     

Performance management 40 years on: a review. Some key decisions and consequences

This paper reviews the past four decades of experience of performance management (PM). Beginning with a brief history of its international spread and development, a short section on conceptual issues is followed by a strategic analysis of the research thus far. From this analysis is extracted a set of key decisions which must be made for any PM system. Each decision has significant consequences, and none are purely technical (though they may occasionally be represented as such). In many cases difficult trade-offs are inevitable.