This research measures the reliability of audit firms in predicting bankruptcy for United States （US） listed financial institutions. The object of analysis is the going concern opinion （GCO）, widely considered as ...This research measures the reliability of audit firms in predicting bankruptcy for United States （US） listed financial institutions. The object of analysis is the going concern opinion （GCO）, widely considered as a bankruptcy warning signal to stakeholders. The sample is composed of 42 US listed financial companies that filed for Chapter 11 between 1998 and 2011. To highlight the differences between bankrupting and healthy firms, a matching sample composed of 42 randomly picked healthy US listed financial companies is collected. We concentrate on financial institutions, whereas the existing literature pays considerably greater attention to the industrial sector. This research imbalance is remarkable and particularly unexpected in the wake of recent financial scandals. Literature points out two main approaches on bankruptcy prediction： （1） purely mathematical; and （2） approaches based on a combination of auditor knowledge, expertise, and experience. The use of data mining techniques allows us to benefit from the best features of both approaches. Statistical tools used in the analysis are： Logit regression, support vector machines （SVMs）, and an AdaBoost meta-algorithm. Findings show a quite low reliability of GCOs in predicting bankruptcy. It is likely that auditors consider further information in supporting their audit opinions, aside from financial-economic ratios. The scant predictive ability of auditors might be due to critical relationships with distressed clients, as suggested by recent literature.展开更多
Nowadays, China has entered the aging countries sequence, reform and development of the social insurance system is facing more opportunities and challenges, which give the social insurance audit work of the new requir...Nowadays, China has entered the aging countries sequence, reform and development of the social insurance system is facing more opportunities and challenges, which give the social insurance audit work of the new requirements. In practice, the social insurance audit work has encountered new conflicts and problems. Due to the socio-economic composition, organizational forms, forms of employment, interest, distribution relations have had a dramatic and profound change, labor relations was diversified, contract, complex features, social insurance premium is difficult, concealed drain Daily contribution base, have occurred impersonator false and social insurance benefits behavior. Loss of the social insurance fund is now urgently containment dike, to further regulate the social insurance audit work has become an important issue in the New Social Insurance Development. Therefore, we must establish a sound social security audit system, and promote the integration of social security audits, and thus be able to maintain the smooth progress of China＇s social insurance work.展开更多
文摘This research measures the reliability of audit firms in predicting bankruptcy for United States （US） listed financial institutions. The object of analysis is the going concern opinion （GCO）, widely considered as a bankruptcy warning signal to stakeholders. The sample is composed of 42 US listed financial companies that filed for Chapter 11 between 1998 and 2011. To highlight the differences between bankrupting and healthy firms, a matching sample composed of 42 randomly picked healthy US listed financial companies is collected. We concentrate on financial institutions, whereas the existing literature pays considerably greater attention to the industrial sector. This research imbalance is remarkable and particularly unexpected in the wake of recent financial scandals. Literature points out two main approaches on bankruptcy prediction： （1） purely mathematical; and （2） approaches based on a combination of auditor knowledge, expertise, and experience. The use of data mining techniques allows us to benefit from the best features of both approaches. Statistical tools used in the analysis are： Logit regression, support vector machines （SVMs）, and an AdaBoost meta-algorithm. Findings show a quite low reliability of GCOs in predicting bankruptcy. It is likely that auditors consider further information in supporting their audit opinions, aside from financial-economic ratios. The scant predictive ability of auditors might be due to critical relationships with distressed clients, as suggested by recent literature.
文摘Nowadays, China has entered the aging countries sequence, reform and development of the social insurance system is facing more opportunities and challenges, which give the social insurance audit work of the new requirements. In practice, the social insurance audit work has encountered new conflicts and problems. Due to the socio-economic composition, organizational forms, forms of employment, interest, distribution relations have had a dramatic and profound change, labor relations was diversified, contract, complex features, social insurance premium is difficult, concealed drain Daily contribution base, have occurred impersonator false and social insurance benefits behavior. Loss of the social insurance fund is now urgently containment dike, to further regulate the social insurance audit work has become an important issue in the New Social Insurance Development. Therefore, we must establish a sound social security audit system, and promote the integration of social security audits, and thus be able to maintain the smooth progress of China＇s social insurance work.
