Les principes et les règles comptables qui régissent l'élaboration et la présentation des états financiers d'une entreprise (ou d'un groupe) ont pour objet de réduire l'incertitude et l'imprécision qui affectent la mesure du résultat et de la situation financière. Les managers disposent...

The expansion of groups of companies during the inter-war years is one of the most profound transformations in the structure of French capitalism. Studies in economic history have shown the importance of the subsidiary creation phenomenon in relation to Compagnie Générale d'Electricité,...

Purpose - Institutional investors use the information disclosed by listed companies to analyze the performance of their investments. The purpose of this paper is to open the "black box" of the construction of financial disclosure by analyzing the internal reporting systems of firms with...

La forte volatilité de l'environnement liée à la mondialisation des marchés, en accroissant les risques qui pèsent sur les entreprises, pose avec acuité le problème de leur traduction dans les états financiers. Les récentes faillites d'institutions financières ont mis en évidence les...

Abstract : Suggested by the rise of the concept of business model in the academic literature, this article highlights the relevance of this concept in the field of financial reporting. It reports an empirical study conducted on all the texts setting out the accounting and financial obligations...

The growth of socially responsible investment on public financial markets has drawn considerable academic attention over the last decade. Discarding from previous literature, this paper sets up to analyze the Private Equity channel, which is shown to have the potentiality to foster sustainable...

In this paper, we analyze whether incoming foreign investment in China plays an important role in alleviating domestic firms' credit constraints. Access to external finance is a crucial determinant of business expansion. Using firm-level data on 2,200 domestic companies for the period 1999-2002,...

This article deals with the usefulness of neuronal networks in the area of corporate finance. Firstly, we highlight the initial applications of neural networks. One can distinguish two main types: layer networks and self organizing maps. As Altman al. (1994) underlined, the use of layer networks...