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 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...

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...

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...

Financial valuation methods use additive aggregation operators. But a patrimony should be regarded as an organized set, and additivity makes it impossible for these aggregation operators to formalize such phenomena as synergy or mutual inhibition between the patrimony’s components. This paper...