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ESSEC KPMG Financial Reporting Chair
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ESSEC KPMG Financial Reporting Chair


Within the framework of ESSEC’s Development Campaign, the ESSEC KPMG Financial Reporting Chair, set up in October 2005 in partnership with KPMG, has set itself two main objectives: to study the feasibility and potential consequences of implementing IFRS standards, through the creation of an Observatory for the work of the IASB, and to analyze the consequences of the application of IFRS, notably the organizational repercussions on corporations, including strategy, financial communications, information systems and internal organization.

ESSEC KPMG Financial Reporting Chair

Objectives


The year 2005 marked a new stage in the area of financial reporting with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in European Union countries. At a time when firms quoted on the Stock Market are beginning to present their accounts using IFRS, ESSEC launches its ESSEC KPMG Financial Reporting Chair, in partnership with auditors KPMG. The ESSEC-KPMG Financial Reporting Chair is to be a center of expertise on the application of IFRS standards and new accounting principles. To achieve those ends, the Chair has set itself three objectives:

- Create a place for discussion between standard sellers and business.

- Train students who wish to become auditors. Beyond the acquisition of accounting techniques, the objective is to make students aware of financial information issues and help them better understand the financial reporting environment.

- Create a research center on IFRS standards, to work on preliminary stages of standards and other subsequent applications.

Activities


- An Observatory on the work of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and analysis of potential consequences and implementation.

- Analysis of the effective consequences of applying IFRS standards by French and foreign firms.

On the program


Research will be carried out and case studies written up. The work of the first year will be presented at a conference organized in June 2006.

Chair operations and students


A specific program will be offered to ESSEC MBA students. Some fifteen students will be selected for the two-year program that will include courses and seminars, which they will be able to combine with the French DECF qualification already taught at ESSEC.

For further information on the Chair’s co-directors, see the biographies of professors