Selon les règles comptables françaises, les sociétés ont la possibilité de " capitaliser " leurs frais de R&D sous certaines conditions. En analysant les rapports annuels 2000 des sociétés non financières appartenant à l'indice SBF 250, nous avons tenté de comprendre pourquoi certaines...

Les groupes français ont la possibilité de se référer aux normes internationales ou américaines pour leur consolidation. L'objectif de cette recherche est d'étudier les choix effectués par les 100 plus grandes sociétés françaises au cours des quinze dernières années (1985-1999)....

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...

Historically, the format of financial statements has varied from one country to another. Recently, due to the attractiveness of their capital markets, the strength of their accounting professions and the influence of their institutional investors, Anglo-American countries have seen the impact of...

Very few countries require directors to be financially literate. This article investigates the determinants of boards' financial expertise using a sample of 95 non-financial French listed firms. We construct a measure of financial expertise based on educational and career background data for 943...