Les juniors auditeurs ont-ils un background de soft skills adéquat pour permettre une bonne intégration sur le terrain
Maréchal, Romain
Promoteur(s) :
Robert, Jocelyne
Date de soutenance : 3-sep-2019/10-sep-2019 • URL permanente : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/8108
Détails
Titre : | Les juniors auditeurs ont-ils un background de soft skills adéquat pour permettre une bonne intégration sur le terrain |
Auteur : | Maréchal, Romain ![]() |
Date de soutenance : | 3-sep-2019/10-sep-2019 |
Promoteur(s) : | Robert, Jocelyne ![]() |
Membre(s) du jury : | Homburg, David ![]() Curreya, Laura |
Langue : | Français |
Nombre de pages : | 122 |
Mots-clés : | [fr] soft skills [fr] audit [fr] junior auditor |
Discipline(s) : | Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit |
Public cible : | Chercheurs Professionnels du domaine Etudiants Grand public Autre |
Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
Diplôme : | Master en sciences de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en Financial Analysis and Audit |
Faculté : | Mémoires de la HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'Université de Liège |
Résumé
[en] In the economic context of the past two decades, where the collapse of giant international
companies led to the 2008 financial crisis, the audit profession was highly criticized due to the
lack of rigor during audits. Audit firms were accused to ignore big issues in the accounts of
their clients, allowing them to use accounting loopholes in order to hide billion of debts or
significantly increase their revenues. As a result, investors lost trust toward the accounts of the
companies, even with the audit firm stamp, which froze the economy.
The audit profession was reformed and new standards were created in order to prevent such
disasters to happen again. Tighten up the audit standards led to longer and heavier audit
processes, which sometimes creates tensions between the auditor and his client, who finds the
audit too invasive.
In order to face these growing tensions with their clients, the auditors have to acquire additional
skills on top of their technical skills if they want to keep a good relation with them. These skills
are called « soft skills » and relate to competencies such as communication, adaptability or team
working.
This thesis aims to analyze the background of the young graduated in terms of « soft skills »
and determine whether their school curriculum and trainings received from their employer are
appropriate to prepare them to maintain good relations with their clients during the audit.
To this end, an empirical approach is adopted, which consists in both a quantitative and
qualitative analysis among recently graduated professionals working as financial auditors. The
results are analyzed and compared to the existing literature on this topic in order draw
conclusions and recommendations on the research question.
It appears that the young graduated consider that their « soft skills » background when arriving
on the field is not sufficient and that they are not ready to handle a relation with the clients. In
addition, the importance of the « soft skills » seems to be increasing and becoming even more
essential to the profession that the technical knowledge.
Finally, five recommendations are drawn up and are addressed to both academic and
professional bodies.
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