Cette étude s'est intéressée aux pratiques des groupes français en matière de reconnaissance comptable des éléments incorporels acquis lors de regroupements d'entreprises et à l'impact de celles-ci sur le marché financier. La démarche de validation empirique a porté sur un...

Face à la montée en puissance des actionnaires individuels et la progression du « capitalisme financier », les entreprises françaises sont amenées à adapter leurs stratégies de communication. Dans son rapport de 1999, la COB a constaté des améliorations dans la qualité de la...

The AFEP-MEDEF corporate governance code amended in 2013 introduces the say on pay principle, which grants shareholders the right to vote on executive remuneration at annual general meetings. This paper aims at reviewing the studies undertaken in countries that have established this principle...

The cost of equity capital is traditionally considered as an increasing function of the estimation risk – the risk of error regarding the distribution of a firm’s future cash flows (FCF). Under international GAAPs, IAS 36 “Impairment of assets” -based information disclosure conveys...

The budget process has been a subject of debate for many years and in some companies this has implied the suppression of budgetary control. The first examples of companies managing without budgets can now be studied in order to understand how new these ways of managing are. We’re presenting in...

The aim of this article is to analyse the question of career interruptions and to evaluate their impact on pension retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the career set-backs for individuals born between 1937...