The stock market has played an important role in today’s China economy. Due to the fact that a number of the listed companies did not generate the return that the investors expected, the research on the causes of fin...The stock market has played an important role in today’s China economy. Due to the fact that a number of the listed companies did not generate the return that the investors expected, the research on the causes of financial failure and predicting such financial failure becomes very important for future capital market development. The paper selected 43 ST(Special Treat) and 43 Non-ST companies as sample, using financial ratio and the factor analysis model to compare and analyse. This study especially analyses profitability, operation efficiency and development ability of firms and focuses on the design of an early warning system for possible financial failure of the listed companies by using factor analysis.展开更多
Assessing student learning can be exceedingly challenging considering that as faculty we never really know what a student knows prior to entering our classroom and what value-added material has been assimilated during...Assessing student learning can be exceedingly challenging considering that as faculty we never really know what a student knows prior to entering our classroom and what value-added material has been assimilated during the academic quarter. This research paper introduces a self-assessment instrument that focuses on ten major finance topics and reports the results of the administration of the self-assessment tool for finance education at the undergraduate and graduate level in courses taught in the United States and abroad. Ten topics of importance to most finance curriculum design were selected as the focus topics. The research methodology employed uses a pre-/post- test comparison with "understanding" being measured on a five-point Lichert scale as implemented in five different fmanee courses. Significant measurable differences occurred in each of the courses using this finance assessment instrument with overall average improvement of understanding by the students as much as one entire point. For exarnple, 1.5 mean score for the pre-test and 2.4 mean score for the post -test for an introductory finance class at the undergraduate level in a college of business. Additional improvements were assessed in each of the courses surveyed.展开更多
文摘The stock market has played an important role in today’s China economy. Due to the fact that a number of the listed companies did not generate the return that the investors expected, the research on the causes of financial failure and predicting such financial failure becomes very important for future capital market development. The paper selected 43 ST(Special Treat) and 43 Non-ST companies as sample, using financial ratio and the factor analysis model to compare and analyse. This study especially analyses profitability, operation efficiency and development ability of firms and focuses on the design of an early warning system for possible financial failure of the listed companies by using factor analysis.
文摘Assessing student learning can be exceedingly challenging considering that as faculty we never really know what a student knows prior to entering our classroom and what value-added material has been assimilated during the academic quarter. This research paper introduces a self-assessment instrument that focuses on ten major finance topics and reports the results of the administration of the self-assessment tool for finance education at the undergraduate and graduate level in courses taught in the United States and abroad. Ten topics of importance to most finance curriculum design were selected as the focus topics. The research methodology employed uses a pre-/post- test comparison with "understanding" being measured on a five-point Lichert scale as implemented in five different fmanee courses. Significant measurable differences occurred in each of the courses using this finance assessment instrument with overall average improvement of understanding by the students as much as one entire point. For exarnple, 1.5 mean score for the pre-test and 2.4 mean score for the post -test for an introductory finance class at the undergraduate level in a college of business. Additional improvements were assessed in each of the courses surveyed.