Chrystelle Richard

Associate Professor, Accounting and Management Control Department

The role of audit in corporate governance.

Audit quality and financial reporting quality.

New forms of audit and assurance.

On-going Research Projects

The social construction of the audit of the sustainability report, with F. Déjean & F. Quairel, 2008 – 2010.

Public services and market logics: the emergence of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) in France, with E. Lazega and E. Penalva-Icher, 2008 – 2010.

On-going Ph.D Supervision

Compernolle Tiphaine, Systemic analysis of the independence of the actors on the financial market, with Pr. Bernard Colasse, 2005-currently.

Jedidi Imen, The Expectation Gap in France, with Pr. Bernard Colasse, 2005-currently.

CPTC21020 - Financial Accounting

CPTC31125 - Financial and Accounting Information

 Research in Auditing (with JF Casta), M2 "Accounting Management Auditing: Research", University of Paris-Dauphine

Governance and Auditing (with S. Thiéry-Dubuisson), M2 "Accounting Management Auditing: Research", University of Paris-Dauphine

Presentations in national and international congresses

2008 Audit Quality and Auditee Satisfaction: Chronicle of an Ordinary Innovation, with F. Cerutti :
         −    31st Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Rotterdam, May ;
         −    Congrès annuel de l’Association Francophone de Comptabilité, Cergy-Pontoise, Mai.

2007 Assessing France’s Joint Audit Requirement: Are Two Heads Better Than One?, with J. Francis & A. Vanstraelen :
         −    30th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Lisbon, April 2007;
         −    Midyear Auditing Meeting – American Accounting Association, Charleston, USA, January 2007.

2006 Assessing France’s Joint Audit Requirement: Are Two Heads Better Than One?, with J. Francis & A. Vanstraelen :
         −    EIASM Workshop on Audit Quality, Milan, November 2006;
         −    International Symposium on Audit Quality, Sydney, June 2006.

2003 To make risk invisible: the institutionalization of the relationship between the board of directors and the auditors :
         −    26th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Seville, April 2003.

2001 The quality of a peers’ relationship, a determinant of audit quality. An understanding of French legal audit:
         −    Workshop on the Future of Audit and the Profession, Copenhagen, June 2001 ;
         −    24th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Athens, April 2001.

1999 Renewable long-term audit mandates and audit quality: a qualitative and quantitative analysis, with A. Vanstraelen :
         −    22nd Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Bordeaux, May 1999.

1998 La confiance, créatrice de valeur ?, avec V. Pallas :
         −    XIVèmes Journées Nationales des I.A.E., Nantes, avril 1998.

Others (professional publications, reports, invitations…)

2004 Comment prendre en compte la dépréciation d’actif ?, Séminaire ‘Nouvelles normes comptables : quels enjeux pour l’enseignement et la comptabilité ?’, Ministère de l’Education Nationale et Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, septembre 2004.

2003 La relation de confiance dans l’ordre comptable, Séminaire « Objets et Dimensions de la Confiance », Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, mars 2003.

2002 La qualité d’une relation de pairs, facteur déterminant de la qualité d’un audit, Premières Journées de Sociologie de la Quantification, Groupe HEC, Paris, mai 2002.

2001 La compétence relationnelle de l’auditeur : du partage du savoir explicite et tacite, Les Cahiers de l’Audit, revue d’opinions de la Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes (CNCC), n° 12, pp. 44-48, premier trimestre 2001.

2001 Les mécanismes de l'audit, avec P. Frantz et P. Moizer, dans Gouvernement d'entreprise et gestion des relations avec les parties prenantes ('stakeholders') : formation, évaluation des performances, contrôle externe, Dir. : Hoarau C., Rapport pour le Commissariat Général du Plan, 2001.

Affiliations

Member of the European Accounting Association

Member of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité

Activities in Scientific Associations

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Annual Conference of the European Accounting Association (EAA), Auditing and Corporate Governance area, 2008 and 2009.

Member of the Board of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC), 2007 to 2009.

Activities in Scientific Journals

Reviewer for Comptabilité Contrôle Audit (CCA)

Reviewer for Accounting and Business Research (ABR)

Reviewer for Auditing, A Journal of Practice and Theory (AJPT)

Organisation of workshops

Coorganizer (with F. Panozzo, University of Venezia, et L. Van Lent, University of Tilburg) of Euroconference Financial Reporting and Regulatory Practices in Europe (FIRRE), with EIASM and European Commission, 2001-2003.

2001 – 2008 University of Paris-Dauphine
                     Dauphine Recherche en Management (DRM) / CREFIGE
                     Lecturer

2000 – 2001 London School of Economics and Political Science
                     Department of Accounting and Finance
                     Part-time teacher

1996 – 2000 University of Montpellier II
                      IAE de Montpellier – IUT de Nîmes 
                      Part-time teacher