The role of innovation in venture capital: empirical evidence from European Union and EFTA countries

This article investigates the effects of innovation attempts on the venture capital and investment activity in the cases of the selected European Union plus European Free Trade Agreement countries using annual panel data and by controlling for real income growth and business sophistication. Our findings suggest that innovation has positively significant effects on venture capital in the cases without opt-out countries (United Kingdom and Denmark); however, these effects become negative in the cases with opt-out countries. Policy implications are provided in the conclusion section of this study.     

Financial scandals: a historical overview

I examine the incidence of fraud from c.1720 to 2009 and relate it to the occurrence of significant financial scandals. Focusing on the UK, and US prior to Enron, and using a detailed dataset of significant events and news content, underpinned by examination of specific watershed scandals, the paper highlights the regulatory response to scandals and the implications for accounting and financial reporting. The evidence reveals the incidence of fraud and financial scandal to be historically contingent and skewed towards certain sectors, particularly banking and finance, facilitated by complex group structures and international capital mobility, and mediated by managerial incentives and ownership concentration. Financial reporting and auditing can mitigate fraud opportunities in all sectors and businesses without complex group structures, and the accounting profession achieved some success in this respect up to the mid-1970s. Since then, the profession has been increasingly challenged by, and to some degree implicated in, the development of interconnected and international business networks, which, combined with wider financial deregulation, has led to a resurgence of fraud and financial scandal not previously experienced since the mid-nineteenth century.     

Business groups,the financial market and modernization*

Business groups are an important aspect of the industrial organization of many developing countries. This paper develops a theory suggesting that they may be organizations that facilitate modernization in the presence of financial market constraints. An important function of the stockmarket is the diversification of risk that comes with specialized, productive technology. But in the face of serious information problems a well functioning stockmarket may fail to emerge, relegating the economy to a low productivity‐poverty trap. Bilateral links between a firm and a group of others may be a more cost effective way to achieve risk‐sharing. Such business groups may be feasible when a full‐fledged stockmarket is not. As modernization takes place, either because information problems become less severe or more firms enter the economy, business groups actually expand in size before being abruptly rendered obsolete by the stockmarket. This is consistent with empirical results from a number of emerging economies.     

加强会计诚信建设 提高会计信息质量

会计信息是国家的宏观经济管理部门、企业经济管理部门及其他方面进行决策的依据。会计信息真实客观与否，直接影响着企业经营管理、国家宏观调控、广大股东的投资决策，势必影响市场经济的有效健康发展。从根本上建立一套与市场经济相适应的会计信息质量保障体系势在必行，而整个体系的建立和健全是一个任重而道远的过程。在这个过程中，会计诚信也成了整个市场经济发展的职业道德规范，笔者就此谈谈几点看法。     

试论二元经济形态下的会计模式

本文分析了在知识经济兴起的环境下我国现行会计模式存在的缺陷,并根据知识经济发展的历程以及我国目前工业经济与知识经济并存的现状,提出了一种能适应两种经济形态的兼容性会计模式,最后指出了目前实施该模式尚存在的制约因素。     

高校财务实行内部会计控制的几点思考

分析了高校实施内部会计控制的背景和存在的主要问题,表述了对高校内部会计控制的方法和关键控制点,提出了解决目前高校内部会计控制存在问题的解决方法和主要对策.     

工商管理学科实验教学体系研究

在追溯工商管理学科实验方法发展历史进程的基础上,分析了工商管理学科4种实验教学模式的特点,系统研究了我国高校工商管理学科实验教学的具体构架。     

企业管理专业实验教学的实践与探索

通过实验室模拟系统和电子沙盘等实验工具和手段的使用,企业管理专业实验教学活动面临着新要求和新机遇。模拟系统和电子沙盘系统在实验教学中的应用,不仅改善了专业实验教学的条件和环境,也对专业实验教学工作提出了新的更高要求。这些新技术、新环境的应用将极大地改善企业管理专业实验教学的软件资源不足的现实困难,也是传统计算机单机条件下实验环境和实验条件的重要拓展。     

试析中小型民营家族制企业财务管理问题及对策

近几年来,民营经济在我国经济中的地位越来越突出。该文在分析家族制管理模式的利弊及其对企业财务管理影响的基础上,对中小型民营家族制企业财务管理存在的问题及改善对策进行了探讨。     

会计专业毕业生面向有色金属行业就业的探索和实践

有色金属行业是我国国民经济的重要组成部分，直接影响到国家经济的发展和社会的稳定。根据有色金属行业的特点，鼓励和引导优秀毕业生到基层，到祖国需要的地方去，满足有色金属行业对人才的迫切需求，探索一条会计专业毕业生面向有色金属行业就业新途径。