The Optimization Method of Financial Statements Based on Accounting Management Theory
ABSTRACT
This paper develops an approach to enhance the reliability and usefulness of financial statements. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) was fundamentally flawed by fair value accounting and asset-impairment accounting. According to legal theory and accounting theory, accounting data must have legal evidence as its source document. The conventional “mixed attribute” accounting system should be replaced by a “segregated” system with historical cost and fair value being kept strictly apart in financial statements. The proposed optimizing method will significantly enhance the reliability and usefulness of financial statements.
I.INTRODUCTION
Based on international-accounting-convergence approach, the Ministry of Finance issued the Enterprise Accounting Standards in 2006 taking the International Financial Reporting Standards (hereinafter referred to as “the International Standards”) for reference. The Enterprise Accounting Standards carries out fair value accounting successfully, and spreads the sense that accounting should reflect market value objectively. The objective of accounting reformation following-up is to establish the accounting theory and methodology which not only use international advanced theory for reference, but also accord with the needs of China's socialist market economy construction. On the basis of a thorough evaluation of the achievements and limitations of International Standards, this paper puts forward a stand that to deepen accounting reformation and enhance the stability of accounting regulations.
II. OPTIMIZATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SYSTEM: PARALLELING LISTING OF LEGAL FACTS AND FINANCIAL EXPECTATION
As an important management activity, accounting should make use of information systems based on classified statistics, and serve for both micro-economic management and macro-economic regulation at the same time. Optimization of financial statements system should try to take all aspects of the demands of the financial statements in both macro and micro level into account.
Why do companies need to prepare financial statements? Whose demands should be considered while preparing financial statements? Those questions are basic issues we should consider on the optimization of financial statements. From the perspective
of \"public interests\reliability and legal evidence are required as qualitative characters, which is the origin of the traditional \"historical cost accounting\". From the perspective of \"private interest\hope that financial statements reflect changes of market prices timely recording \"objective\" market conditions. This is the origin of \"fair value accounting\". Whether one set of financial statements can be compatible with these two different views and balance the public interest and private interest? To solve this problem, we design a new balance sheet and an income statement.
From 1992 to 2006, a lot of new ideas and new perspectives are introduced into China's accounting practices from international accounting standards in a gradual manner during the accounting reform in China. These ideas and perspectives enriched the understanding of the financial statements in China. These achievements deserve our full assessment and should be fully affirmed. However, academia and standard-setters are also aware that International Standards are still in the process of developing .The purpose of proposing new formats of financial statements in this paper is to push forward the accounting reform into a deeper level on the basis of international convergence.
III. THE PRACTICABILITY OF IMPROVING THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SYSTEM
Whether the financial statements are able to maintain their stability? It is necessary to mobilize the initiatives of both supply-side and demand-side at the same time. We should consider whether financial statements could meet the demands of the macro-economic regulation and business administration, and whether they are popular with millions of accountants. Accountants are responsible for preparing financial statements and auditors are responsible for auditing. They will benefit from the implementation of the new financial statements.
Firstly, for the accountants, under the isolated design of historical cost accounting and fair value accounting, their daily accounting practice is greatly simplified. Accounting process will not need assets impairment and fair value any longer. Accounting books will not record impairment and appreciation of assets any longer, for the historical cost accounting is comprehensively implemented. Fair value information will be recorded in accordance with assessment only at the balance sheet date and only in the annual financial statements. Historical cost accounting is more likely to be recognized by the tax authorities, which saves heavy workload of the tax adjustment. Accountants will not need to calculate the deferred income tax expense any longer, and the profit-after-tax in the solid line table is acknowledged by the Company Law, which solves the problem of determining the profit available for distribution. Accountants do not need to record the fair value information needed by security investors in the accounting books; instead, they only need to list the fair value information at the balance sheet date. In addition, since the data in the solid line table has legal credibility, so the legal risks of accountants can be well controlled.
Secondly, the arbitrariness of the accounting process will be reduced, and the
auditors’ review process will be greatly simplified. The independent auditors will not have to bear the considerable legal risk for the dotted-line table they audit, because the risk of fair value information has been prompted as \"not supported by legal evidences\". Accountants and auditors can quickly adapt to this financial statements system, without the need of training. In this way, they can save a lot of time to help companies to improve management efficiency. Surveys show that the above design of financial statements is popular with accountants and auditors. Since the workloads of accounting and auditing have been substantially reduced, therefore, the total expenses for auditing and evaluation will not exceed current level as well.
In short, from the perspectives of both supply-side and demand-side, the improved financial statements are expected to enhance the usefulness of financial statements, without increase the burden of the supply-side.
IV. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
The current rule of mixed presentation of fair value data and historical cost data could be improved. The core concept of fair value is to make financial statements reflect the fair value of assets and liabilities, so that we can subtract the fair value of liabilities from assets to obtain the net fair value.
However, the current International Standards do not implement this concept, but try to partly transform the historical cost accounting, which leads to mixed using of impairment accounting and fair value accounting. China's accounting academic research has followed up step by step since 1980s, and now has already introduced a mixed-attributes model into corporate financial statements.
By distinguishing legal facts from financial expectations, we can balance public interests and private interests and can redesign the financial statements system with enhancing management efficiency and implementing higher-level laws as main objective. By presenting fair value and historical cost in one set of financial statements at the same time, the statements will not only meet the needs of keeping books according to domestic laws, but also meet the demand from financial regulatory authorities and security investors
We hope that practitioners and theorists offer advices and suggestions on the problem of improving the financial statements to build a financial statements system which not only meets the domestic needs, but also converges with the International Standards.
基于会计管理理论的财务报表的优化方法
摘要
本文提供了一个方法，以提高财务报表的可靠性和实用性。国际财务报告准则（IFRS）的根本缺陷是公平价值核算和资产减值核算。根据法律理论和会计理论，会计数据必须具有作为其源文件的法律证据。传统的“混合属性的”会计制度应改为一个“独立”的历史成本和公允价值被严格分开的财务报表系统。本文建议的优化方法将大大提高财务报表的可靠性和实用性。 一、引言
根据国际会计衔接办法，财政部发布2006年企业会计标准的情况，以供参考《国际财务报告准则》（以下简称《国际标准》）。在企业会计准则公平价值核算成功扩展的意义上，会计核算应当客观地反映市场价值。会计改革的目标是建立会计后续的理论与方法,使用国际先进理论的借鉴不仅是必要的,也符合我国社会主义市场经济建设的需要。在已获得的成果和国际标准的局限性进行全面评估的基础上，提出了一种立场，以深化会计改革和加强会计法规的稳定性。
二、优化系统的财务报表：法律事实与财务展望并联上市
作为一种重要的管理活动，会计上应根据分类统计信息系统的使用，全心全意为微观经济管理，并在同一时间宏观调控。财务报表的系统优化应尽量使自己考虑宏观和微观层面的财务报表的要求的所有方面。
为什么企业需要编制财务报表？谁的要求应该考虑编制在财务报表内？这些问题是基本问题，我们应该考虑对财务报表的优化。从法律的角度考察“公共利益”、可靠性和法定证据中需要定性的特点，是传统的“历史成本会计”的由来。从“私人利益”来看，证券投资者和金融监管当局希望财务报表反映市场价格，及时记录“客观”的市场条件的变化。这是“公平价值会计”的由来。一套财务报表是否能够匹配这两种不同的观点和平衡公共利益与私人利益?为了解决这个
问题，我们设计了一个新的资产负债表和损益表。
从1992年到2006年,大量的新思路、新观点被引进到中国的会计实践,国际会计准则在中国的会计改革中渐变。这些思想和观点丰富了对中国的财务报表的理解。这些成就值得我们充分评估，并应予以充分肯定。然而，学术界和标准制定者也知道，国际标准仍然在发展中。文中提出的财务报表会计改革新格式的目的，是推进到一个关于国际趋同的更深层次的基础上。
三、提高系统财务报表的实用性
财务报表是否能够保持其稳定性呢？在同一时间要动员供应方和需求方的积极性。我们应该考虑是否能满足财务报表的宏观经济调控和企业管理的要求，并且是否受数以百万计的会计师的欢迎。会计师负责编制财务报表，审核员负责审核工作。他们将受益于新的财务报表的执行情况。
首先，对于会计师来说，在这个孤立的历史成本会计和公允价值会计的设计下，他们的日常核算的做法大大简化。会计处理将不再需要资产减值准备和公允价值了。会计账簿记录减值不会为历史成本会计和资产再增值，是全面落实。根据评价，公允价值的信息将被记录在资产负债表日，并且只能在年度财务报表。历史成本会计是更有可能被税务机关认可，从而节省了大量的纳税调整的工作量。会计师不需要计算递延所得税费用，获利后的实现表税被公司法认可，解决了决定可获得利润分配的问题。会计师不需要在会计账簿记录证券投资者需要的公允价值信息，相反，他们只需要列出在资产负债表日的公允价值的资料。此外，因为在实线表中的数据具有法律的公信力，所以会计师的法律风险可以得到很好的控制。
其次，对会计处理的随意性将会减少，审计员的审查过程将大大简化。独立审计师在审计虚线表时就不必承担相当大的审计法律风险，因为来自于公允价值信息的风险已被认定为“不合法的证据支持”。会计师和审计师能尽快地适应这个财务报表系统,而不需要训练。这样，他们可以节省很多时间来帮助企业提高管理效率。调查表明，上述财务报表的设计在会计师和审计师中很受欢迎。由于会计和审计的工作量已大幅减少，因此，审计和评估的总开支将不会超过目前的水平。
总之，从供应方和需求方的角度来看，改进后的财务报表没有增加预计，而且将加强财务报表的有用性，且不增加供给的负担。
四．结论和政策建议
当前混合了陈述公允价值和历史成本的数据可以被改善。公允价值的核心理念是使财务报表反映资产和负债的公允价值，因此我们可以从资产减去负债的公允价值来获得的净公允价值。
然而，目前的国际标准不执行这个概念，而是要设法改造部分历史成本会计，从而导致减值核算和公允价值会计混淆使用。20世纪80年代以来，中国的会计学术研究一直是循序渐进的，现在已经引进了一种企业财务报表的混合属性模型。
通过区分财务预期的法律事实，我们可以平衡公众利益和私人利益，可以重新设计以提高管理效率为主要目标的财务报表和实施更高层次的法律制度。通过展示一套在同一时的公允价值和历史成本的财务报表，不仅满足国内法律关于保管账簿需要，也符合金融监管部门和证券投资者的需求。
我们希望从业者和理论家在改善财务报表，从而建立一个财务报表系统的问题上提出建议，不仅满足了国内的需求，而且也与国际标准吻合。
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