Do goodwill impairments affect audit opinions? Evidence from China

There has been a steady growth of goodwill impairments in the Chinese stock market since the adoption of the impairment approach in accounting. The influence of goodwill impairments on a firm’s financial position and profitability give reason to doubt its current and future performance. We examine whether auditors, as a crucial external monitor, identify the information risks of goodwill impairments and express their concerns about financial reporting quality in their audit opinions. Using a sample of firms listed on China’s A-share market from 2007 to 2017, we test the association between goodwill impairments and the type of audit opinion received in the same financial period. Our findings are as follows. First, the probability of receiving a modified opinion increases with the amount of goodwill impairments. Second, the positive association between goodwill impairments and modified audit opinions is driven primarily by earnings management risks. Third, this positive association is more salient when auditors are industry experts and there is no auditor–client mismatch. Fourth, auditors are more sensitive to the amount of goodwill impairments than to their mere existence. Overall, we document that auditors perceive goodwill impairments as a signal of information risks and communicate their concerns to investors to avoid litigation.     

现代企业制度下的内部控制机制研究

内部控制是企业为了提高会计信息质量，保护资产的安全和完整，确保有关的法律法规和规章制度的贯彻执行而制定和实施的一个控制系统。本文从我国企业内部控制中存在的问题，针对这些问题提出了相应的对策。     

解安全管理不等式

截止到2005年4月30日,山东省平度电网连续安全运行5271天,创造了安全运行的历史最高纪录。5271天,不仅仅是个时间概念、数字概念,它是平度供电公司800余名干部职工用心血和汗水铸成的丰碑。平度的经验说明:要实现安全长周期,关键要对管理机制进行不断创新和提练,实现在继承中发展,在发展中超越。我们的安全生产之所以创下历史新高,主要是找到了农电安全管理四个不等式的最佳解。     

小议“混同于一个普通老百姓”

近来，随着我国反腐败工作力度的加大，一批身居部委级的贪官如成克杰、胡长清、王怀忠、刘方仁等纷纷落马，受到党纪国法的严厉惩罚。可笑的是这些贪官在谈到落马的教训时，几乎无一例外的言道：“由于放松了思想政治学习，把自己混同于一个普通老百姓，才使自己贪欲膨胀……”云云。     

中小企业成长的理论

概根据相关文献资料对中小企业成长的理论观点,本文作了归纳、整理,目的在于识别影响和决定其成长的关键因素,理解和把握其生存发展的规律,以有助于从事创业的企业家和中小企业经营管理者借鉴,为政府制订面向中小企业的支持体系建设提供理论依据。     

恒久感动

9月17日,北京2008年残奥会在全世界的震撼与感动中完美落幕.回首过去的11天赛程,那些流逝的瞬间成为历史,那份刻骨的感动却成为永恒. 11天里,北京2008年残奥会完美地诠释了"超越、融合、共享"的北京残奥会理念,体现了残疾人与健全人在奥林匹克运动与社会生活中事有平等权利,共享奥林匹克运动的欢乐与友谊、共享人类文明的成果.让全世界共同见证了精神的强健、生命的坚韧和人性的伟大.     

Asymmetric volatility in the foreign exchange markets

We examine the presence or absence of asymmetric volatility in the exchange rates of Australian dollar (AUD), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP) and Japanese yen (JPY), all against US dollar. Our investigation is based on a variant of the heterogeneous autoregressive realized volatility model, using daily realized variance and return series from 1996 to 2004. We find that a depreciation against USD leads to significantly greater volatility than an appreciation for AUD and GBP, whereas the opposite is true for JPY. Relative to volatility on days following a positive one-standard-deviation return, volatility on days following a negative one-standard-deviation return is higher by 6.6% for AUD, 6.1% for GBP, and 21.2% for JPY. The realized volatility of EUR appears to be symmetric. These results are robust to the removal of jump component from realized volatility and the sub-samplings defined by structural-changes. The asymmetry in AUD, GBP and JPY appears to be embedded in the continuous component of realized volatility rather than the jump component.     

企业评价创新——从绩效评估到基于战略聚焦的价值管理

新经济时代的企业环境促使企业管理战略发生了巨大变化,同时又为企业组织与运营模式的创新提供了先进手段。在这种环境下,传统绩效评价模式呈现出诸多方面的缺陷和不适,因此必然要求相应的改变。本文分析了企业绩效评价的研究现状,探讨绩效管理的发展趋势,最后就两种面向战略聚焦的价值管理模式进行评述。