漫谈加强企业财务管理和监控的策略

企业财务管理是一项综合性较强的管理活动,也是企业经营管理的核心。而对企业进行财务监控不仅能够提高企业的抗风险能力,还有助于企业管理能力的不断提升。就目前来看,企业财务管理和监控中还存在一些急需解决的问题,需要企业采取适当措施不断加强财务管理和监控工作。本文对企业财务管理和监控中存在的问题以及加强企业财务管理与监控的对策等作了详细的分析和系统的阐述。     

财务管理目标的重新审视

企业财务管理目标,既是财务管理的一个基本理论问题,也是财务管理的一个重大现实问题,现已成为衡量企业理财活动是否合理有效的基本标准。本文根据知识经济时代的特点和要求,提出了以财务核心竞争力最大化作为财务管理目标的观点以及培育和提升财务核心竞争力的对策与建议。     

关于加强财务理论和实践研究的研讨

随着市场经济的发展和竞争力的加强,企业在市场环境中要获得长期稳定的发展就必须加强和提高对该企业的现代化管理,在其现代化的管理过程中其必须以财务管理为中心,从而提高和加强企业在市场环境中的竞争力。石油企业作为我国一种重要的特殊企业行业,其在运行过程中的财务管理作用更为重要,而加强财务与实践研究是为财务管理服务的,因此企业中加强财务理论与实践研究就具有深远意义和现实意义。     

如何加强施工企业项目部财务管理

施工企业项目部的财务管理对于公司整体财务工作具有重要作用,只有对成本加强控制,对财务加强监控,避免经营项目过程中可能遇到的风险,重视项目部的财务管理,才能保证施工企业的经济效益与正常运行。本文主要从施工企业项目部财务主管的选择,财务管理体系的完善,加强核算力度,提高企业资金的管理力度,营造专业的财务管理环境等方面对如何加强施工企业项目部财务管理提出了相关建议。     

企业信息化下的财务监控问题研究

以计算机网络应用为特征的企业信息化是企业发展的必然趋势,如何在信息化条件下做好财务监控工作,已成为各信息化企业目前一个严峻而迫切的任务。本文首先分析了企业信息化对财务监控的影响,接着从构建适时财务监控机制和建立基于价值流的财务监控系统两个方面提出了完善信息化企业财务监控的对策。     

企业财务管理目标浅析

财务管理是企业管理活动的一个重要组成部分,它可以为企业战略发展提供财务策略支持。本文对财务管理目标的几种主要观点展开了分析,对财务管理目标的形成机制及财务理论与企业财务目标选择进行了探讨。     

浅谈国有企业会计集中核算

管理是企业永恒的主题,财务管理是企业管理的中心。会计核算贯穿于企业生产经营全过程,是经营成果的最终体现。在国有企业开展会计集中核算可以提高财务信息质量、强化财务管理力度、实现财务信息资源共享、加强财务队伍建设。会计集中核算的实施给企业信息的需求者带来规范、及时的财务及辅助信息,为决策层的战略决策提供专业的财务信息,也为前端业务部门提供了服务支撑。会计集中核算工作对现代企业保持持续健康的发展,应对未来更加激烈的竞争环境,提升企业整体的核心竞争力,具有非常重要的意义和影响。     

新会计准则下的企业财务管理

企业财务管理在新的会计准则下必须全面创新,包括财务观念创新、融资创新和投资创新。应采取的主要策略有:建立现代企业价值观,明确企业的财务管理目标;全面提升财务管理的层次;培养高素质的财务管理人员;建立科学、有效的财务管理监控制度。     

集团公司财务风险集成管理系统的构建

在金融危机下,风险管理是现代企业管理的重要职能,它已成为企业成败的关键因素之一。企业风险管理的核心是财务风险管理,财务风险管理的重点在于平衡风险收益与风险损失的关系,对可能出现的财务风险进行超前管理和控制,保障企业的可持续友晨。我们认为,集团公司财务风险管理协同整合效应实现的基础是实现财务风险集成管理。财务风险集成管理是以集团公司整体发展战略和财务管理目标为导向,将集成管理思想创造性地应用于财务风险管理实践。     

网络时代的适时财务监控与公司治理

网络技术应用的普及使传统财务监控的变革已成为公司治理和财务管理的热点话题,本文简要揭示新概念——适时财务监控与公司治理的关系,剖析了公司不同管理层次的适时财务监控的实时需求,从公司治理的基本需要对公司价值流再造、公司信息系统变革和适时财务监控机制重构等三个方面进行了初步研究,为网络适时财务监控在公司治理实务中的应用提供了一个基本框架。     

Educational Landscapes and Urban Development. Contextual and Spatial Interfaces and Linkages

In the broad sociopolitical discussion on education quality within the last decade, it has become apparent that education is gaining importance for urban development, as well as space and the urban context are important dimensions of education. This becomes particularly evident in concepts for local educational landscapes (Ger. Bildungslandschaften). The young field of research on educational landscapes is currently lacking empirical research from spatial and planning sciences. In the paper, the current state of scientific research on educational landscapes in Germany and Europe and first insights to contextual and spatial interfaces and linkages between education and urban development in general are presented.     

Inventory Models with Continuous and Poisson Demands and Discounted and Average Costs

We develop a new, unified approach to treating continuous‐time stochastic inventory problems with both the average and discounted cost criteria. The approach involves the development of an adjusted discounted cycle cost formula, which has an appealing intuitive interpretation. We show for the first time that an (s, S) policy is optimal in the case of demand having a compound Poisson component as well as a constant rate component. Our demand structure simultaneously generalizes the classical EOQ model and the inventory models with Poisson demand, and we indicate the reasons why this task has been a difficult one. We do not require the surplus cost function to be convex or quasi‐convex as has been assumed in the literature. Finally, we show that the optimal s is unique, but we do not know if optimal S is unique.     

E-governance and Corruption-developments and Issues in Ethiopia

This paper reports the results of a survey of 400 respondents in Ethiopia about factors generating corruption and the potential of e-Governance to mitigate corruption. It is suggested that e-Governance can help not only in weeding out corruption but also in the establishment of sounder government citizen relationships in Ethiopia. While e-Governance cannot cure all the structural factors that breed corruption in the society, strategic implementation of e-Governance can help improve the critical variable in combating corruption-government citizen relationships. It is argued that while e-Governance initiatives can make important contributions to improving public services they can best do so by helping improve overall relationships between governments and citizens.

CEO and Chairperson characteristics and firm performance

This paper focuses on the relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairperson characteristics and firm performance. Specifically, the study examines the association between the characteristics of the CEO and the Chairperson of the board and firm performance. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, the evidence found suggests that demographic and experience-related characteristics may be associated with the market valuation and financial performance of the firm. In particular, the reported results indicate a positive relationship between the presence of female CEOs or Chairs and firm performance, thus suggesting that gender-based differences may affect the CEO’s/Chairperson’s success. Moreover, the findings concerning the age of the CEO or Chair are mixed, while their experience and quality appear positively related to firm performance. Interestingly, a CEO or Chairperson holding multiple board seats is negatively associated with firm performance, whereas CEO duality has a positive relationship with Tobin’s Q and the return on assets (ROA) of the firm.     

David and Goliath: causes and effects of coopetition between start-ups and corporates

Coopetition (collaboration between competitors) among young firms (i.e. start-ups) and larger, more established firms (i.e. corporates) may be beneficial for both partners as each party typically has something to offer that is missing in the other. Start-ups often develop innovative ideas, are flexible and agile, willing to take risks, and aspire to achieve high growth, but they tend to lack the required resources, capabilities, and knowledge due to their newness and smallness. Corporates have resources, routines, and experience that enable them to work efficiently but lack a certain innovation capability. Research has suggested that coopetition represents an opportunity for start-ups facing restrictions in resources, while corporates benefit from start-ups’ innovative ideas. However, it is yet unknown whether start-ups and corporates engage in coopetition with each other and, if so, how and why they do this. This study seeks to fill this void by exploring the motives of coopeting start-ups and corporates, how they manage their coopetitive relationship, and what implications occur including potential benefits and risks. We present a multiple case study based on qualitative data collected through 70 interviews with Austrian-based start-ups and corporates representing 35 coopetitive partnerships. Discussing the findings based on our data, we propose relationships concerning coopetition and its role to enlarge resource- and technology-bases as well as its role in the development of dynamic capabilities.     

Career orientations and career success among research,and development and engineering professionals

Managing the careers of research, development and engineering (RD&E) professionals is important to the strategic use of RD&E in the economy. Appropriate mechanisms for motivating RD&E professionals will probably emerge as a critical success factor for organizations that want to compete in world markets. This study examines dimensions and levels of career orientation and their correlations with individual and work-related outcome variables among 78 RD&E professionals. The findings reveal a rich diversity of career orientation in RD&E professionals. The data strongly suggest that RD&E professionals are service, lifestyle and security oriented. However, they scored low on technical orientation and entrepreneurship. This paper suggests that the dual career ladder is not an effective device for managing RD&E professionals. Organizations must be careful to provide career paths that retain and motivate workers and, more importantly, find matches between organizational needs and individuals' needs, and restructure jobs accordingly. The authors offer suggestions for future research and identify implications for management.     

Work and shopping overflow — Consequences and differentiation among selected psychological and demographic characteristics

Contemporary individuals are forced to deal with excessive stimulation, which causes an overload in the cognitive and emotional areas. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible factors differentiating the perceived level of work and shopping overflow experienced by individuals and consequences of these states. Two psychological variables: cognitive control and sensation seeking, are chosen as potential factors differentiating the perceived levels of overflow. We assume that individuals with high cognitive control and sensation seeking will report lower levels of both types of examined overflows. Experiencing low overflow levels may manifest in the search for additional stimuli, rather than in the desire to limit them. Two indexes of behavior connected to seeking extra stimulation are selected: one belonging to the area of consumer behavior (readiness to participate in the experience economy) and one belonging to vocational behavior (choosing a boundaryless career). The quantitative study is conducted on a sample of 297 management students who are currently employed. The research results support the relation between cognitive control and perceived level of work and shopping overflow. Individuals who can cognitively control the situation and the incoming stimuli report lower levels of overflow. No significant relationship between sensation seeking and the level of overflow is found. The demographic variables that influence the perceived overflow are age and salary for work overflow and age for shopping overflow. As far as consequences of overflow are concerned, a low level of shopping overflow is related to readiness to participate in the experience economy. However, there is no link between work overflow and preferred career pattern. The managerial implications for human resource management and marketing strategy design are discussed.     

Review and reappraisal of modelling and predicting mental workload in single- and multi-task environments

The concept of mental workload has long been recognized as an important factor in individual performance within complex systems. It is documented that either overload or underload may degrade performance, and further affect the efficiency of the whole system. Therefore, systems designers need some explicit models to predict the mental workload imposed on individuals by the system at an early design phase so that alternative system designs can be evaluated. In examining mental-workload literature, it is found that few predictive mental-workload models have considered factors specific to individuals. This research aims to develop a practical framework for predicting mental workload in both single- and multi-task environments considering such individual factors. In order to describe mental workload more precisely and more completely, a framework for mentalworkload definitions, which contains instantaneous workload, average workload, accumulated workload, peak workload and overall workload, is proposed. In order to model individual factors, two new variables, i.e. effective workload and ineffective workload, are introduced to model the taskgenerated workload and individual-generated workload. The extension of the model to multi-task environments is also discussed. The proposed conceptual models are domain-independent and could be used to guide the development of operational models for different specific tasks.