GRI ( Global Reporting Initiative)is proposing guidelines for social and environmental reporting inspired by Anglo - Saxon accounting standardization. The limits of the transposition makes in fact its principles inapplicable. Nevertheless it tends to impose on and the large companies can find...

En s'inspirant de la normalisation comptable anglo-saxonne, la Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) propose un référentiel de publication volontaire d'informations sociétales. La transposition présente des limites qui rendent en fait ses principes inapplicables. Néanmoins il tend à s'imposer...

This article reviews the present state of the debate in France on the introduction of IFRS. It suggests that history shows that market value was the dominant approach to balance sheet valuation in the nineteenth century, and analyses the ultimate replacement of static theory, using market...