Nous examinons dans cet article l'“audit expectation gap” en nous appuyant sur l'étude de l'évolution des objectifs de l'audit dans le contexte français. La méthode d'investigation repose sur 9 entretiens réalisés auprès de commissaires aux comptes et sur 162 articles publiés entre...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how external auditors communicate with audit committees (ACs). Design/methodology/approach: A total of 53 interviews were conducted with participants in the ACs of 22 French companies listed in the CAC 40 index, including external and internal...

The audit committee process is generally considered as a monitoring process: directors have to monitor managers and auditors to enhance quality of financial statements and transparency. Another way to consider the audit committee process could be to seeing it as an accountability process: a...

The audit committee is an important corporate governance mechanism that is responsible for overseeing the company's relations with the external auditor. It thus contributes to ensuring the quality of the external audit and reinforces confidence in the auditor's report. This chapter provides a...

We investigate organisational and environmental factors that influence firms' incentives to develop high-quality internal audit functions (IAFs) by using a unique international sample formed by matching proprietary data from a global internal auditor survey with public data obtained from...

Nous examinons dans cet article l’“audit expectation gap” en nous appuyant sur l’étude de l’évolution des objectifs de l’audit dans le contexte français. La méthode d’investigation repose sur 9 entretiens réalisés auprès de commissaires aux comptes et sur 162 articles...

We examine auditor choice for listed companies in France where two (joint) auditors are required by law. The joint audit requirement creates a unique setting to study if a firm’s ownership structure affects its auditor-pair choice as well the consequences on earning quality. The results...