Management control practices are influenced by different professional groups, their interpretations and power struggles. We study a company whose strategy and daily management rely on non financial stakes, notably upon the concept of “brand”. We show how management accountants introduce a...

This study develops and empirically tests a model in order to study the dysfunctional behaviors of senior auditors in the French context. The related literature is then reviewed in the first section. The next section identifies the factors influencing the dysfunctional behaviors. The variables...

Using a sample of firms from France, where the law requires use of two auditors, we examine the effect of auditor pair composition on overall measures of unconditional and conditional conservatism, as well as on a specific measure of conditional conservatism, i.e., impairment loss. We use game...

Several researches have worked on audit quality and thus particularly after the financial scandals that occurred in the beginning of the century. A number of these researches have linked the audit quality to auditors' reduction behaviours. Despite the role of the auditee in the audit conduction,...

If legal audit is an institution recognized by a wide public, joint audit seems unknown. As financial information and auditor opinion are challenged, we wonder about the efficiency of a joint audit regulation in French limited companies. From the normative conceptual framework of the efficiency...