YinGuangXia was a listed company in Ningxia, China that fabricated its financial reports between 1999-2000, greatly exaggerating its profits. An investigation found the company had fabricated purchase/sales contracts and export declarations to inflate revenues and profits by over 745 million RMB. Its accounting firm, ZhongTianQin, was also found to have violated regulations by publishing false audit reports. Both YinGuangXia and ZhongTianQin were punished by Chinese authorities for their roles in the financial scandal.
YinGuangXia was a listed company in Ningxia, China that fabricated its financial reports between 1999-2000, greatly exaggerating its profits. An investigation found the company had fabricated purchase/sales contracts and export declarations to inflate revenues and profits by over 745 million RMB. Its accounting firm, ZhongTianQin, was also found to have violated regulations by publishing false audit reports. Both YinGuangXia and ZhongTianQin were punished by Chinese authorities for their roles in the financial scandal.
YinGuangXia was a listed company in Ningxia, China that fabricated its financial reports between 1999-2000, greatly exaggerating its profits. An investigation found the company had fabricated purchase/sales contracts and export declarations to inflate revenues and profits by over 745 million RMB. Its accounting firm, ZhongTianQin, was also found to have violated regulations by publishing false audit reports. Both YinGuangXia and ZhongTianQin were punished by Chinese authorities for their roles in the financial scandal.
Background • Guangxia(Yinchuan) Industrial Co., LTD , short title “ YinGuangXia ” ,listed on the stock exchange in shenzhen, stock code 000557, which is the first listed company in ningxia hui autonomous region. • On November 26, 1993, in the approval of the ningxia hui autonomous region economic system reform commission, the ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation and the China securities regulatory commission, YinGuangXia issued to social public stock 74,000,000 shares. • On June 17, 1994, the company stock listed for trading in the shenzhen stock exchange. • End in 28 February 2007 , the company’s total capital is 605,007,626 yuan. Business Scope of Company • Development, production, sales of high-tech product; • Developing, processing, marketing of natural products; • Animal and plant breeding, planti ng,processing,marketing; • Development,production,marketing of food,daily chemical products, w ine; • Real estate development, etc. • Currently the leading industry of the company is grape planting, pro cessing, wine sales. Introduction of YinGuangXia Event • YinGuangXia company’s whole name is GuangXia (yinchuan) Industrial Co., LTD.Its securities referred to as STYinGuangXia.It was known as “China's first blue chip” because of its outstanding performance and tempting prospects. • On dec.30,1999, YinGuangXia starts its share price, which rose six times within one year and became the most popular stocks.In April 20,2000,YinGuangXia carried on the capital reserve turn to equity scheme, every 10 shares turn into 20 shares.Also,it begins the 填权 on market quotation, annual price up 440%, and this increase located in the 2nd place in shanghai and shenzhen. At the same time,2000 annual report indicated the performanc e synchronous growth,surprising the public again. On the basis of double capital,EPS zoomed to 0.827 RMB, while the vast majority of its profit comes from Tianjin Guangxia:sales 9100 million RMB,net profit 418 million RMB. However, based on the so called increasing profit, many media questioned by the booming increase of the share prices. As early as march ,《 Securities market weekly 》 and 《 The Financial Times 》 reported issues written by PuShaoping,the analyst of SEEC, putting forward 9 doubts to its high-speeding increase and thick profits. The critical strike comes from 《 Finance & Economics 》 journal .On August 2001, 《 YinGuangXia trap 》 revealed the high quality “blue chip”with high- tech,west-developing and environmental protection is a scam from the very beginning.
After a series of detailed
investigation, 《 Finance & Economics 》 finded out that “the profit myth”diffused by YinGuangXia from 1999 are completely fabricated. Main Financial Indexes and Assets and Liabilities EPS ROE INCOME PROFIT NET PROFET earnings per net assets ( 万元 ) ( 万元 ) ( 万元 ) share income rate (元) (%)
Mid 2001 一 0.039 —3.77 7 251 1 916 —1 953.36
2000 year 0.827 34.56 90 899 57 826 41 764.64 1999 year 0.510 13.56 52 604 20 858 12 778.66 1998 year 0.405 15.35 60 938 22 769 8 915.45 1997 year 0.225 10.10 32 432 5 086 4 663.60 1996 year 0.323 14.7l 42 951 4 573 4 722.65 1995 year 0.224 10.03 22 556 1 924 2 747.30 1994 year 0.295 15.52 10 635 957 2 181.30 1993 year 0.270 27.87 4 123 1 011 The Balance Sheet \\\ year Mid 2001 Late 2000 Mid 2000 Late 1999 name \\\ total assets( 万元 ) 220 960.88 315 129.53 269 227.78 242 989.64 Current assets( 万元 ) 118 023.37 204 576.47 159 721.06 145 286.25 Account receivable ( 万元 ) 53 510.58 89 639.60 55 440.19 58 079.85 Net inventory( 万元 ) 42 183.10 39 482.56 46 191.20 40 311.06 Long-term investment ( 万元 ) 16 485.13 13 075.83 10 471.52 7 582.12 Fixed assets( 万元 ) 79 866.24 89 489.93 92 363.32 83 679.85 Intangible assets ( 万元 ) 6 586.14 7 987.31 6 671.89 6 441.43 Current liabilities ( 万元 ) 115 132.92 146 110.54 96 596.83 78 285.21 Long-term liabilities ( 万元 ) 48 990.60 33 888.81 44 517.69 52 229.93 stockholder's equity ( 万元 ) 51 846.90 120 852.81 110 295.86 94 246.00 Capital reserve( 万元 ) 21 469.86 21 469.86 21 469.86 46 732.93 Surplus reserve ( 万元 ) 15 948.42 15 948.42 7 595.49 7 595.49 Net assets per share( 元 ) 1.030 0 2.390 0 2.180 0 3.730 0 Adjusted net assets per share( 元 0.940 0 2.150 0 2.020 0 3.420 0 Shareholders' equity rate( % 23.464 38.350 40.967 38.786 Asset-liability rate( % ) 74.277 57.119 52.415 53.712 Accumulation fund per share( 元 ) 0.424 9 0.424 9 0.424 9 1.849 9 From the above YinGuangXia disclosure information we chould see that the company’s achievements continuate to promote in the year 1999 and 2000.The profits are mainly come from Tianjin subcompany. Through faking purchase and sales contracts, forging the export declaration, faking value-added tax,etc.,Tianjin subsidiary fabricated main business income and profit 745 million RMB,which includes 178 million yuan in 1999, 567 million yuan in 2000.
Meanwhile,they find out that Shenzhen
ZhongTianQin accounting firm and its signature certified public accountants violating applicable laws and regulations,publishing false auditing The Disposal of YinGuangXia Events
• April 23,2002,CSRC released the punishment to
YinGuangXia. • In view of existing “conceal important fact and disclose information falsely ”, CSRC imposed a fine of 600000 yuan,and order them to rectify the situation. Punishment of The Accounting Firm • In September 7,2001, the Ministry of Finance released an announcement about withdrowing practice qualification of ZhongTianQin. • The mistakes of ZhongTianQin lie in: • When auditing financial reports,the accounting firm failed to the confirmation for important accounts receivable,in contrast,they sended the confirmation to YinGuangXia; • What’s more,the accounting firm didn’t adopt analytical auditing technology to test income cycling,cash&deposits with banks,nor did they carry on the cost analysis and logical analysis.
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