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Associations & Foundations

A good deed requires good management

Associations and foundations are facing ever-increasing requirements: greater transparency, stronger governance, and compliance with increasingly complex accounting standards.
Which tax status to choose? Where to draw the line between profit and non-profit? How to declare income from the association's assets? Which status to choose for people working for the association?

Faced with complex accounting, legal and fiscal issues, you need to be able to rely on a solid partner, with a perfect knowledge of the specific characteristics of associations. With specialised expertise in the associations and foundations sector, and a department consisting of experienced employees fully dedicated to this type of structure, Exponens is the partner for associations.

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The Social and Solidarity Economy in France

in figures

154 679
employer businesses (all legal statuses combined)
10 %
of GDP
2,6 millions
million jobs, or 10% of the number of jobs in France

Why choose

Exponens?

At Exponens, our clients are kept informed of regulatory changes and benefit from a permanent link with a chartered accountant for associations, by your side every day to assist you in your day-to-day management and provide you with expert advice.

More than 300 associations and foundations trust Exponens on a daily basis. We support local, national and international associations on a wide range of accounting, auditing, social, tax and legal expertise topics.

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An offer adapted

to your challenges

Because each association has different needs and challenges, we adapt to ensure you are satisfied.

Whether you wish to keep control of all or part of the accounting entries within your organisation, or you wish to delegate all of your accounting, we will provide you with the tools and the attention necessary to ensure the success of our mission.

Chartered accounting

From the preparation of your budget to the presentation of your accounts at general meetings, we assist you with everything to do with accounting, whether in full at our company or in collaboration.

Legal contractual audit

Being the statutory auditor of your association or foundation means upholding the trust pact with your donors and funders. We are also involved in contractual audits to protect the liability of managers.

People management

Volunteers, employees, managers, seconded employees. We manage the various statuses for you in accordance with the rules specific to each person and handle your employee payroll on your behalf, as well as relations with social security organisations.

Going further

Wealth management

Our Wealth Management division has selected low or moderate risk investments with attractive returns to enable you to optimise the management of your excess cash.

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Risk & Insurance

In terms of risk management, our Risk Insurance division will support you from the insurance of your entity’s activity to the protection of the association’s volunteers and directors. Rest assured, you can devote yourself fully to your activity.
This expertise also makes it possible to cover life and health insurance for your employees.

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Financial audit of international programmes

We are also able to handle the financial audits of your programmes financed by major donors such as the French Development Agency or the European Community. Our teams are accustomed to travelling to the different regions in which you work, directly or with the help of local partners.

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All our expert partners
Partner, Chartered Accountant
Holder of the “Creator of the Future” certification, awarded by the EM Lyon Business School Executive Development programme
+33 (0)1 48 86 13 12
dorothee.damien@exponens.com

Dorothée Damien joined the Exponens Group in 2007, become Junior Partner Director in 2016 and then Partner in September 2017, after completing the “Creator of the Future” programme, which is offered by the Eurus Alliance and certified by EM Lyon Business School.

Dorothée provides services to associations, endowment funds and foundations in all sectors, in particular accounting assistance, budget monitoring and setting up performance indicators, as well as organisational and financing audits.

Dorothée is also a member of the Associations Committee of the Paris Île-de-France Order of Chartered Accountants.

Dorothée Damien
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Partner, Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor
Graduate of the Accounting and Financial Techniques Master’s Programme (MSTCF) of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University / Holder of the “Creator of the Future” certification, awarded by the EM Lyon Business School Executive Development programme
+33 (0)1 85 34 16 60
stephane.cuzin@exponens.com

Stéphane Cuzin joined the Exponens Group in 1999 after obtaining a Master’s degree in Accounting and Financial Sciences and Techniques from Paris I. He became a partner in September 2017 after completing the Créateur d’Avenir curriculum, delivered within Alliance Eurus, and certified by EMLyon.

In statutory auditing, he has gained experience working for: credit institutions, private equity firms, associations and foundations in the SSE sector, religious associations, trade unions, works councils, OPCAs and family-owned industrial SMEs…

It also carries out quality control missions and audits projects abroad in the field of international solidarity.

Stéphane Cuzin
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Partner, Chief Operating Officer of the Exponens Group, Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor
Graduate of Paris ESLSCA Business School
+33 (0)1 49 29 55 28
thierry.legrand@exponens.com

After having spent several years with the Deloitte group, Thierry Legrand joined Exponens to take charge of the non-profit and local authorities sectors. He provides accounting and statutory auditing services to associations and foundations in all sectors. He also advises on the implementation of budgetary control and the restructuring of non-profit groups. In 2018, he and Matthias Collot developed an offer of assistance for start-ups and growth companies.

Thierry Legrand is a member of the Non-profit Sector Commission of the Order of Chartered Accountants. He chaired the Eurus alliance from 2014 to 2022. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Reporters d’Espoirs association.

Within Exponens, Thierry is a member of the Executive Committee.

Thierry Legrand

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Partner, Chartered Accountant
Holder of the “Creator of the Future” certification, awarded by the EM Lyon Business School Executive Development programme
+33 (0)1 34 43 93 94
sebastien.pincebourde@exponens.com

Sébastien Pincebourde joined the Exponens Group’s Chartered Accountancy Department in January 2006 as an associate and became a Partner in 2014, after having completed the Creator of the Future programme offered by the Eurus Alliance and certified by EM Lyon Business School.

He specialises in the social and solidarity-based economy and, more specifically, in the medico-social sector. He wrote his dissertation on head office overheads in this sector. He assists associations in accounting and tax matters, provides consultancy services and performs financial and budgetary analyses. He heads this business sector at the Cergy-Pontoise office.

Sébastien Pincebourde’s expertise in assisting associations and medico-social institutions and services has been recognised by the Regional Council of the Ile-de-France Order of Chartered Accountants.

He is a member of the ACE Club, the Cergy-Pontoise Business Club.

Sébastien Pincebourde
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Sophie Breton

Partner, Chartered Accountant
Graduate of SKEMA Business School Nice

+33 (0)1 49 29 55 38

Paris Gare de Lyon

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Sophie Breton joined Exponens in 1994 after two years with KPMG. After taking charge of chartered accountancy assignments in a variety of fields, she set up the real estate department in 2005, providing accounting and tax assistance (bookkeeping, auditing, reporting, tax compliance, due diligence, etc.) for French and foreign real estate companies and investment funds.

In 2008, she initiated the development within the Exponens group of specific expertise in OPCI accounting, which today enables her to offer a range of services specifically dedicated to this type of real estate vehicle. Sophie Breton regularly runs professional training courses on this subject, and participates in the work of the accounting committee of the Association Française des Sociétés de Placement Immobilier (ASPIM).

Within Exponens, Sophie is a member of the Quality & Ethics Committee.

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