The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders' attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. Our study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and France) and...

The fuzzy set approach has progressively been introduced into many areas of organisational science in order to compensate for certain inadequacies in traditional tools. Indeed behaviourists and expected utility researchers have long been studying the role of ambiguity and vagueness in the human...

The auditor‘s independence has been of growing interest since the past accounting scandals: Enron, Worldcom, etc. Numerous regulations have sought to reinforce it by modifying some of the components (factors) of independence. Based on empirical research works, our research aims at the...

Beaucoup de présentations pédagogiques ou spécialisées de la comptabilité générale des entreprises se veulent délibérément et seulement techniques. Fondé sur une conception large de la discipline, cet ouvrage ne la considère pas exclusivement comme une technique de saisie,...

The auditor (in France, the « Commissaire aux comptes ») is to control the audited company's financial statements. The quality if his/her task depends of his/her competence and independence (De Angelo, 1981). However, some studies present a contradictory approach of the relatve status of...

Une comparaison des normes nationales PCG 1999 et internationales IAS et IFRS, pour préparer les utilisateurs et futurs utilisateurs au passage des premières aux secondes.

Is earnings management affecting (driving) the measures of earnings conservatism? If discretionary accruals were on average negative, earnings management practices would be enhancing the association between bad news periods earnings and returns, whilst the opposite would occur in good news...

Accounting for research and development (R&D) costs is an open issue. SFAS n°2 mandates that all R&D costs are immediately expensed. International standards prescribe a capitalization of R&D costs if they meet certain criteria (IAS 38). The cost method is perfectly objective and verifiable. The...

Dans cet article, nous étudions la méthodologie des programmes de recherche de Lakatos (1978) et ses apports aux sciences sociales et en particulier à la recherche en gestion. Notre objectif est triple. Il s'agit d’abord de préciser la nature des programmes de recherche, de les critiquer...