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...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the profile and the contribution of actors involved in the setting of accounting standards. The comparative literature suggests the opposition between “expert” and “representative” standard-setters. Considering both...

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 looks at the Enron affair in terms of a diagnosis of the corporation's strategic choices. The authors show how analysts could have predicted Enron's difficulties in view of the incoherence observed in its strategic decisions, from the viewpoint of the theory of resource-based and...

GRI ( Global Reporting Initiative)is proposing guidelines for social and environmental reporting inspired by Anglo - Saxon accounting standardization. The limits of the transposition makes in fact its principles inapplicable. Nevertheless it tends to impose on and the large companies can find...

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...

Following Colbert's Ordonnance of 1673, most of whose provisions were reiterated in the Code de Commerce, 1807 and the Law of Bankruptcy, 1838, traders in France were under a legal obligation to keep accounts of their business activities. In the event of bankruptcy, traders were potentially...