Le règlement européen n°1606/2002 du 19 juillet 2002 impose l’application du référentiel IFRS aux sociétés faisant appel public à l’épargne et présentant des compte consolidés. Ces groupes ont connu du retard dans la mise en place de ces normes et certains ont rencontré des...

Que révèlent les scandales financiers récents (Enron, Worldcom...) ? Les failles des normes comptables, l'imbrication trop forte de certains métiers (par exemple l'audit et le conseil), l'insuffisance de la "corporate governance" et plus généralement des modes de régulation ? Comment...

Is an implementation of a management control system in a public company a lever of change ? A case study was carried out with the French National Railway Company between 1996 and 1998. The management control adapts to the strategic and structural change. The objectives are to decentralize the...

From 2005, European listed firms and many more around the world are required to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The introduction of a uniform accounting system is expected to ensure greater comparability and transparency of financial reporting around the world. Over...

During the nineteenth century, the development of joint-stock companies and the take-off of capital markets confered a new dimension to accounting. The only guarantee offered to third parties was that the capital of a limited company had to remain intact, thus it was left to accounting to...

This article looks at the Enron affair in terms of what investors and experts fail to take into account to being able to predict Enron collapse. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the...