Bien que l'indépendance du commissaire aux comptes soit traditionnellement décrite comme une caractéristique individuelle, on peut considérer l'indépendance du commissaire aux comptes comme un construit collectif sur lequel le comité d'audit aurait une influence. Pour mieux comprendre...

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...