This research tries to understand audit committee’s working and effectiveness. It aims to open the audit committee black box by analyzing the interactions between participants. The approach is comprehensive, based on analysis of 59 interviews with attendees of 32 CAC 40 companies’ audit...

Lacking political legitimacy, international accounting standardisation is founded on procedural and substantial legitimacies challenged by the current financial crisis. This article highlights the limits of the due process, that is, however transparent ; this process does not permit an effective...

This article proposes an interpretation of the reform of the French accounting standards setter initiated by the decrete n° 20076629 of the 27th of april 2007 related to the national standards board, the Conseil National de la Comptabilité (CNC). This reform, if it goes to its term, will give...

Organisation internationale de droit privé qui tire sa légitimité normative du monde anglo-saxon et produit des informations à destination des investisseurs, l’IASC/IASB ne dispose d’aucun pouvoir coercitif pour faire appliquer les normes comptables qu’il émet. Il lui faut donc...

This article proposes an interpretation of the reform of the French accounting standards setter initiated by the decrete nº 20076629 of the 27 th of april 2007 related to the national standards board, the Conseil National de la Comptabilité (CNC). This reform, if it goes to its term, will give...

La crise a montré que l’application des normes internationales et, en particulier de celles qui prescrivent l’utilisation de la juste valeur, pouvait être un facteur de déstabilisation des entreprises ; en d’autres termes, que la recherche d’une plus grande efficience des marchés...

The aim of this research is to assess the power of the accounting profession on the international standard setting institutions after their reform in 2001. International accounting standard setting, technical and political process, can be studied through power relations. A theoretical framework...

This dissertation gives an account of a study of the emergence of socially responsible investment in France. We adopt an interpretative and qualitative approach. The research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of socially responsible investment within financial market....

Pour l'auteur, les "affaires" qui ont défrayé la chronique du début du siècle sont une occasion de rénovation des enseignements de comptabilité et d'audit; en ce sens, elles sont "bonnes". L'analyse de l'"affaire Enron-Andersen" l'amène à faire un certain nombre de propositions...