Budgetary control has developped in France since 1930. Because of their place in the firm, accoutants should have been the managers of this new tool. But both examples of Saint-Gobain and Pechiney show that relationships between accountants and budgetary control were unclear. Accountants were...

Since the 1970s, the subject of environmental accounting generates numerous debates within our scientific community. During the various stages structuring the notion of environmental accounting, the phase of formalization of this instrumentation began in the 1990s (Gray, 2002). In France, the...

Nous commencerons, dans une première partie, par décrire ce champ de recherche, encore mal connu en France. Nous tenterons de le saisir sous ses aspects institutionnels, d'en dresser une cartographie (que nous espérons discutable) et d'en mesurer les apports à l'étranger et en France. Dans...

According to IFRS 8, segment reporting has to be based on information prepared for internal management decisions. In this paper, we attempt to explain the gap between the expected impact of this standard and its actual implementation. Indeed, disclosed segment information apparently complies...

Banks are supposed to respond to imperfect information in credit markets. They are thought to access private information and to create additional information through credit granting.This means two things. First, mandatory accounting information is not sufficient to create a state of perfect...

Ouvrage collectif rassemblant quinze contributions d'universitaires et de professionnels traitant, sous l'angle technique, politique ou de la gouvernance, des conséquences et de la signification de l'introduction de la juste valeur dans les normes comptables internationales.