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Un Mauvais Auditeur : Dependant Et/Ou Incompetent ? Etude Exploratoire Des Motifs De Condamnation Des Commissaires Aux Comptes En France

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  • Géraldine Hottegindre

    (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Cédric Lesage

    (GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC - HEC Paris - Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

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 competence and independence. Moreover the research studies, but also the post Enron regulations, have been mainly focused to independence. Is this lower interest for competence justified? Is a bad auditor mainly a dependent or a non competent auditor? We have studied the sentences pronounced against the French auditors from 1989 until 2005. We have found that, incompetence is a characteristic almost as frequent as dependence. But we have also discovered a third characteristic: personal reasons, not related neither to independence, nor competence. These new results open interesting perspectives in the audit quality research.

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  • Géraldine Hottegindre & Cédric Lesage, 2007. "Un Mauvais Auditeur : Dependant Et/Ou Incompetent ? Etude Exploratoire Des Motifs De Condamnation Des Commissaires Aux Comptes En France," Working Papers halshs-00152356, HAL.
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