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...

This research tries to understand audit committee’s working and effectiveness. It aims to open the audit committee black box by analyzing the interactions between participants. The approach is comprehensive, based on analysis of 59 interviews with attendees of 32 CAC 40 companies’ audit...

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...

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...

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...

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...