This article endeavours to determine in which extent and in which context the audit committee directors express their preferences and their points of view to the financial team members and to external and internal auditors, in order that they can have an influence on the quality of financial...

The wave of mergers and acquisitions witnessed since the late 1990’s combined with the coming into force of IFRS for French public companies have led to the emergence of a new actor: the external appraiser specialized in the purchase price allocation. In France, these external appraisers...

The practice of audit committees in France became an obligation for listed companies. Nevertheless, even if France adopted this practice, she did not adopt all the Anglo-Saxon recommendations considered as good practices: the French audit committees are not totally independent; France is also...

My analysis indicates power games taking place between directors, external auditors and the financial management. These power games would play a key role in the construction of external auditor's independence. More particularly, these games would be sources of constraints, of comfort and of...

The external auditor isn’t the only actor who has an auditing mission. Audit committee’s directors and internal auditors have one of it. Their interactions can influence external auditor’s independence. This study is interested in the means by which these relations influence external...

The paper sets out to analyse the effects of the financial crisis on the international standard-setter in 2008 and the attempts made to shoot the messenger - to blame IAS 39 for creating the crisis for reporting unrealised losses, rather than the cause being bankers making bad investment...

The global financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 has brought the financial industry to centre stage. While most current analysis focuses on the way finance can be regulated in the topical context of the economic crisis, this book aims to show how financial activities actually shape...