A comprehensive guide to China's public, private, and internal audit system Study on the Auditing Theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics provides a comprehensive overview of China's auditing practices. Recent years have seen the National Audit Office of China (CNAO) making remarkable headway not only in China by guaranteeing the healthy operation of the economy and society and improving national governance through government auditing, but also in the international arena by carrying out audits with the United Nations. With constant development in the practice, an audit theory with socialist Chinese characteristics has taken shape, centering on the premise that government auditing serves as the cornerstone and safeguard of national governance. At the XXI INCOSAI held in 2013 in Beijing, the theme of national audit and national governance proposed and chaired by CNAO, was met with widespread approval by participants from over 160 countries, and led to the endorsement of the Beijing Declaration, which makes it a priority and target for audit institutions to promote good national governance. To explore the nature and development of government auditing, this book probes into the history and reality, and theories and practices of auditing in various countries, and puts forward the assertion that, as a cornerstone and important safeguard for national governance, government auditing is an immune system endogenous within the synthetical system of national governance, with functions of precaution, revelation and defense. Furthermore, China s socialist auditing theory has been elaborated in nine aspects, nature, functions, goals, features, methods, management, framework of regulations and standards, IT application and culture, covering the new concepts, methodologies, techniques and achievements of China's government auditing. This book is highly relevant, practical, and readable. Jiayi Liu, the chief author, is the Auditor General of China and the current Chairman of INTOSAI Governing Board. In 2013 he won the United Nations Peace Prize in recognition of his auditing work for UN peacekeeping operations.

The disciplines of accounting and finance have been rapidly changing in recent years. The methods and techniques now being used have created a new language for managers, students, practitioners, academics and all those who are connected in some way with business and investment activities. To understand and work within an environment that is in a constant state of flux can be challenging and this book provides a resource of information and guidance. The Guide focuses specifically on the terms used in accounting and finance. Important terms and phrases are identified but with a much longer, in-depth explanation than you would normally find in a dictionary. Not only does each entry gives a thorough explanation of each term, most entries provide two or more references to academic articles that go into much greater depth. Hence, the entries give the reader immediate access to the literature. The Guide also comments on the contribution of the articles which adds to our knowledge. This approach allows the reader to obtain a much deeper level of understanding much more quickly than is available from the usual dictionary. At the end of the book, the full reference to all the articles that have been cited in the text is given including a list of the many acronyms used in the world of accounting and finance.

Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of cost-benefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on cost-benefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

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Mit dem BilMoG hat der deutsche Gesetzgeber das reformierte Handelsgesetzbuch gezielt als Gegenentwurf zum International Financial Reporting Standard for small and medium-sized entities positioniert. Die IFRS for SME richten sich speziell an kleine und mittelstandische Unternehmen, die auch der deutsche Gesetzgeber im Sinn hat, wenn er mit dem BilMoG das bewahrte HGB-Bilanzrecht zu einer dauerhaften und im Verhaltnis zu den internationalen Standards vollwertigen, aber kostengunstigeren und einfacheren Alternative entwickeln will. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert die Arbeit kritisch, ob und inwieweit der deutsche Gesetzgeber den im Kontext der Rechnungslegung relevanten Interessen und Bedurfnissen des Mittelstandes tatsachlich besser gerecht wird als die IFRS for SME. Die Beantwortung dieser Forschungsfrage erfolgt unter Ruckgriff auf die Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie.

Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of cost-benefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on cost-benefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.

Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist die anhaltende Hinwendung der kapitalmarktorientierten Rechnungslegung zur fair-value-Bewertung. Dieser Paradigmenwechsel gibt Anlass zu zwei Fragestellungen. Zum einen wird auf Grundlage einer Analyse der US-GAAP und der IFRS die Konzeption des Wertmassstabes fair value herausgearbeitet und dessen Niederschlag in gegenwartigen Standards dargestellt. Die Rechnungslegung zum fair value wird in einem zweiten Schritt einer umfassenden Zweckmassigkeitsuntersuchung unterzogen, um den Beitrag zur Informationsfunktion zu eroertern. Auf Basis informationsoekonomischer, investitions- und bilanztheoretischer Ansatze werden grundlegende Aussagen zur Informationsqualitat des fair value, zur Begrundbarkeit einer bilanziellen fair-value-Bewertung und zu den Eigenschaften eines fair-value-Gewinns gewonnen. Die Ergebnisse zeichnen ein differenziertes Bild der Entscheidungsnutzlichkeit der Rechnungslegung zum fair value. Wesentliche Vorzuge, wie sie in der Debatte insbesondere von Standardsetzern vorgebracht werden, werden aus konzeptioneller wie empirischer Sicht relativiert.

There are many webinars and training courses on Data Analytics for Internal Auditors, but no handbook written from the practitioner's viewpoint covering not only the need and the theory, but a practical hands-on approach to conducting Data Analytics. The spread of IT systems makes it necessary that auditors as well as management have the ability to examine high volumes of data and transactions to determine patterns and trends. The increasing need to continuously monitor and audit IT systems has created an imperative for the effective use of appropriate data mining tools. This book takes an auditor from a zero base to an ability to professionally analyze corporate data seeking anomalies.

This collection of essays deals with the situated management of risk in a wide variety of organizational settings - aviation, mental health, railway project management, energy, toy manufacture, financial services, chemicals regulation, and NGOs. Each chapter connects the analysis of risk studies with critical themes in organization studies more generally based on access to, and observations of, actors in the field. The emphasis in these contributions is upon the variety of ways in which organizational actors, in combination with a range of material technologies and artefacts, such as safety reporting systems, risk maps and key risk indicators, accomplish and make sense of the normal work of managing risk - riskwork. In contrast to a preoccupation with disasters and accidents after the event, the volume as whole is focused on the situationally specific character of routine risk management work. It emerges that this riskwork is highly varied, entangled with material artefacts which represent and construct risks and, importantly, is not confined to formal risk management departments or personnel. Each chapter suggests that the distributed nature of this riskwork lives uneasily with formalized risk management protocols and accountability requirements. In addition, riskwork as an organizational process makes contested issues of identity and values readily visible. These 'back stage/back office' encounters with risk are revealed as being as much emotional as they are rationally calculative. Overall, the collection combines constructivist sensibilities about risk objects with a micro-sociological orientation to the study of organizations.

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In Audit Analytics in the Financial Industry, editors Jun Dai, Miklos A. Vasarhelyi and Ann F. Medinets bring together a cast of expert contributors to explore ways to integrate Audit Analytics techniques into existing audit programs for the financial industry. Separated into six parts, the contributors take a variety of approaches to this exploration. In Part One, the contributors present two articles illustrating the process of applying Audit Analytics to solving audit problems. Part Two contains four studies that use various Audit Analytics techniques to discover fraud risks and potential frauds in the credit card sector. In Part Three, the chapter focus on the insurance sector and show the application of clustering techniques in auditing. Part Four includes two chapters on how to employ Audit Analytics in the transitory system for fraud/anomaly detection. Finally, Parts Five and Six illustrate the use of Audit Analytics to assess risk in the lawsuit and payment processes. For students, researchers, and professionals in the accounting sector, this is an unmissable read exploring the latest research in Audit Analytics.

Kaum ein Themenkomplex wird in der steuerpolitischen Diskussion so kontrovers diskutiert, so regelmassig vorubergehend beerdigt und anschliessend wiederbelebt wie die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer. Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob eine Vermoegensteuer uberhaupt in verfassungskonformer Weise wiedereingefuhrt werden kann und, falls dies der Fall ist, welche verfassungsrechtlichen Grenzen die Politik dabei zu wahren hat. Hierbei geht die Arbeit insbesondere der Frage nach, ob der so genannte Halbteilungsgrundsatz aus dem Grundgesetz abgeleitet werden kann und wie er zu operationalisieren ist. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass eine substanzentziehende Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich unzulassig ware und dass selbst eine als so genannte Sollertragsteuer ausgestaltete Vermoegensteuer verfassungsrechtlich schwerwiegenden Bedenken unterliegt. Selbst wenn man diese Bedenken ignoriert, ist auf Basis der - verfassungsrechtlich erforderlichen - Anwendung des Halbteilungsgrundsatzes im derzeitigen Steuersystem uberhaupt nur dann Platz fur eine Vermoegensteuer, wenn die Vermoegensteuerschuld bei den Ertragsteuern angerechnet wird. Zustandig fur die Wiedereinfuhrung einer Vermoegensteuer waren derzeit - entgegen der allgemeinen Annahme in Politik und Rechtswissenschaft - die Lander.

The audit environment continues to change in dramatic ways, and Johnstone/Gramling/Rittenberg's AUDITING: A RISK BASED-APPROACH, 11E prepares you for that fast-changing world by developing professional and ethical decision-making skills. AUDITING integrates the latest in standards, including new guidance from the PCAOB on audit reports, fraud risks, emerging topics such as data analytics, and ethical challenges facing today's financial statement auditors within a framework of professional skepticism. Extensively re-written to be more engaging and reader friendly, AUDITING includes features include: "What You Will Learn" and "Let's Review" sections that highlight important points in each chapter, and integrated true/false and multiple-choice questions throughout the chapter and "Check Your Basic Knowledge" to ensure understanding as you read. Finally, new end-of-chapter problems and new cases provide valuable hands-on experience. Trust AUDITING, 11E to help you master the full range of auditing issues in today's evolving global environment.

Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit Periodenabgrenzungsmodellen (accruals models), die zur Messung von Bilanzpolitik eingesetzt werden. Bestehende Ansatze wie das Jones- oder das McNichols-Modell weisen ein Endogenitatsproblem auf, wonach die erklarenden Variablen mit dem Fehlerterm einer Regressionsschatzung korrelieren. Dieses Problem wird zum Teil durch simultane Kausalitat der Rechnungslegung hervorgerufen, die bei doppelter Buchfuhrung durch das Beruhren jeder Transaktion von mindestens zwei Konten vorliegt. Der Autor entwickelt zur Berucksichtigung dieses Aspekts ein Mehrgleichungsmodell, das auch Rechnungslegungsidentitaten erfasst. Er zeigt in einer Simulationsstudie fur Unternehmen der EU mit Daten von 1995 bis 2011 durch den Modellvergleich, dass Periodenabgrenzungsmodelle nur bedingt zur Messung von Gewinnsteuerung geeignet sind.

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Das Ausscheiden von Unternehmen aus dem Konsolidierungskreis und die damit zusammenhangenden Massnahmen einer durchzufuhrenden Endkonsolidierung unterliegen keiner expliziten gesetzlichen Regelung. Vor diesem Hintergrund und den gestiegenen Anforderungen an die Aussagefahigkeit und Objektivitat der Konzernberichterstattung, verfolgt die Arbeit das Ziel, sachgerechte eund zweckadaquate Regeln fur die erfolgsrechnerische und bilanzielle Abbildung der Endkonsolidierung im Konzernabschluss abzuleiten. Basierend auf einem konsistenten und den Grundsatzen ordnungsmassiger Konsolidierung entsprechenden Grundsatzsystem werden die Erfolgswirkungen analysiert, wobei die Berucksichtigung des Totalerfolgskonzeptes im Konzernabschluss von zentraler Bedeutung ist. Darauf aufbauend wird dargestellt wie die Massnahmen der Endkonsolidierung buchungstechnisch im Konzernabschluss abzubilden sind.