This paper reports the results of a one-year review of the four top accounting research journals (AOS, JAE, JAR and TAR) and of EAR in a comparison purpose. 158 research articles are reviewed. Topics, methods of data collection, methods of data processing and researchers' nationalities are...

Bankers suffer a risk of non repayment of their credits to firms. This risk can be reduced during the two phases of the credit : at the time of the credit granting by a risk of failure analysis and the design of incentive contracts, and during its life, by an active monitoring of the credit.

Cette communication s'interroge sur les déterminants des pratiques d'externalisation de la fonction comptable dans les entreprises françaises. Après avoir présenté les théories traditionnelles de l'externalisation, nous tentons d'expliquer plus précisément les pratiques d'externalisation...

Financial accounting data should be useful for stakeholders' decisions. This paper focuses on the usefulness of accounting information for bank loan officers while they have to decide to grant a credit to a business. Based on interviews, it tries to identify the bank loan officers' needs and...

This paper reports the results of a one-year review of AOS, JAE, JAR and TAR and also of EAR and CCA for 2003. 188 research articles are reviewed. It provides an analysis of authors’ nationalities, topics, methods and data. It shows differences in American and European profiles for reviews and...

Les banquiers subissent un risque de nonremboursement des crédits aux entreprises. Ce risque peut être réduit lors des deux phases du crédit : lors de l'octroi, par une analyse du risque de défaillance et la rédaction de contrats incitatifs, et en cours de vie, par un suivi actif du crédit.

Price regulation and competition patterns in the ethical drug industry in france This article gives the results of an econometric modelization of the ethical drugs price and quantity determination institutionnal process for France. From price and promotion elasticities, it is shown that...

Efficiency of financial markets is one of the most studied subjects in theoretical finance. Formalization of this idea is realised by the random walk model. Numerous tests have been developed to validate the hypothesis of identically and independently distributed innovations. But the results of...