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Auditing

Audit: Building trust

We will provide you with an objective, impartial analysis of your company's financial health and organizational efficiency.

Whether or not you are legally required to have your financial statements certified, an audit enables you to assess your company's financial and operational performance. In particular, it can identify areas that need to be strengthened or discover untapped opportunities. An audit thus helps to improve the performance of your risk management, internal control and governance processes and to reassure stakeholders. Our auditors provide services in a broad range of business sectors. They will support you in this process by ensuring optimal quality control and guaranteeing our independence and our objectivity. By looking beyond the numbers, we proactively participate in your company’s ongoing control process to create opportunities and drive growth.

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Legal audit

statutory auditors

Certain processes that comply with legal obligations, such as the certification of the annual financial statements, are key elements of your company’s financial communication and governance. It is therefore essential that you be supported by independent and transparent external auditors and statutory auditors.

Our external auditors and statutory auditors have an in-depth understanding of the business environment, honed by assignments carried out in companies in a wide variety of sectors. You will benefit from ongoing communication with the auditors, a unique audit approach, and a working method based on powerful and fully secure digital tools that meet the data confidentiality requirements of our profession.

Statutory auditors

In France, many entities are required by law to appoint a statutory auditor. A statutory auditor verifies financial information in order to give a true and fair view of a company’s performance and financial position.

The statutory auditor is a sworn legal auditor who verifies the accounts of companies, associations, trade unions and public bodies.
The purpose of this legal obligation is to certify the regularity, sincerity and true and fair view of annual and consolidated financial statements. Our statutory auditors can also perform other legal assignments, known as services other than the certification of the financial statements. They are used to prepare specific reports, opinions or certificates in the following cases: regulatory obligations or in response to needs expressed by companies, and always in compliance with our Code of Ethics.

Certification of financial statements

In this process, our statutory auditors play an essential role in serving the public interest. In particular, they are bound by robust principles of independence and ethics.

Certification of the financial statements is a legal obligation that aims to verify that the company’s financial data complies with the standards in force. In order to promote transparency and trust, entities that are not subject to this legal obligation may also have their accounts certified.

The five stages of certifying the financial statements:

  1. Assessment of the internal controls of the audited entity.
  2. Analysis of the risks of material misstatement.
  3. Implementing the verifications to be performed, tailored to the size and complexity of the company.
  4. Issuing recommendations to governance bodies.
  5. Expressing an opinion on the financial statements.

Services other than certification of the financial statements

Companies may request that the statutory auditor provide services in addition to certifying the financial statements.

The statutory auditor may be asked by the company to provide services other than the certification of accounts. These services may include any related assignments that lead to certification of numerical data or processes, a report on financial transactions required by law, a mapping of the company’s risks and, more broadly, opinions and recommendations.

  • Regulatory obligations: mainly on capital transactions and verification of non-financial information (DPEF, tomorrow CSRD).
  • Depending on the needs you express at your own initiative: acquisition audits, VDD, certification of financial information, compliance audits, approval of prospectuses and registration documents, GDPR, opinions and recommendations, risk mapping, etc.

Our other legal assignments

Our sworn auditors may also perform other legal tasks separately from a statutory audit mandate.

  • Contribution and merger audit:
    Our statutory auditors can help you with all your contribution, merger and demerger operations.
  • Conversion appraisals: We verify the value of the company’s corporate assets and certify that equity is at least equal to the capital.
  • Special privileges appraisal: we are at your service to describe and value the preferences granted to a company’s shareholders.
  • Commissariat ad-hoc: Since the Pacte Act came into force in 2019, entities without a statutory auditor must appoint an auditor specifically to issue reports for associates for most capital transactions.

Contractual audits

Businesses need auditors who have an understanding of their business sector, long-term strategy and related risks. They require auditors who know how to tap into their expertise during the audit process.

For all your specific needs, we will provide you with the support you require to give you an accurate picture of your company’s financial health. This strategic necessity encourages growth by inculcating two key aspects: greater trust and greater transparency.

We perform contractual audits to optimise the performance of your organisation and accelerate your strategic decision-making.

Because our teams work in a variety of business sectors, we can assist you with a broad range of related assignments.

Compliance audits

Thanks to our multi-disciplinary skills, we can support you in compliance audits: social audit, internal control, RGPD, compliance with tax or legal requirements… Our interventions are carried out by consultants specialized in each field.

Support for capital transactions

Thanks to our multi-disciplinary skills, we can support you in compliance audits: social audit, internal control, RGPD, compliance with tax or legal requirements… Our interventions are carried out by consultants specialized in each field.

Other missions

Our long-standing expertise in specific sectors enables us to offer you our skills in the following areas:

  • Information systems audit,
  • Audits in the commercial real estate sector, including rental management audits, audits of civil and commercial leases, and audits of the accounts of condominium associations, Association Foncière Urbaine Libre (AFUL) and Association Syndicale Libre (ASL),
  • Transfer pricing analysis
  • Foreign Desks: with our long experience in supporting foreign companies and our multilingual auditors, backed by our international BKR group, we are a solid partner for legal and contractual audits of the French subsidiaries of international groups.

Information systems audit,

cybersecurity and RGPD

Our IS audit department will support you in upgrading your information systems to make them more efficient and better adapted to your business.
They become more reliable and flexible, while remaining secure, so as to be competitive in the race to digital transformation imposed on all companies.

We can also support your development and manage your digital transformation.
We can help you manage the associated projects and ERP migrations, while ensuring the security of your IS and analyzing its regulatory compliance.

IT Audit and Consulting

Our auditing and consulting work is organized around a number of key areas:

Support for our financial auditors and Exponens’ partner statutory auditors in their certification work.

Our areas of expertise include :

  • review of general IT controls,
  • review of application controls,
  • migration review
  • etc.

Assisting our customers with a wide range of consulting assignments in the areas of :

  • data analysis,
  • sourcing or co-sourcing internal audit or IT internal control,
  • IS security,
  • organizational and physical audit,
  • technical audit: intrusion testing, system and network configuration audit, web application audit, code audit,
  • Business continuity plan and IT recovery plan.

Digital transformation

A major challenge for all organizations, digital transformation ensures a definite competitive advantage, provided it is well managed.

At Exponens, our credo is to help you unleash your technical and human potential, and to help you co-construct digital solutions tailored to your needs and in line with your strategy.
Our inclusive approach adapts to your organization, taking into account the employee and user experience.
This approach revolves around :

  • Maturity audit : assessment of the level of transformation in relation to strategic digital transformation objectives
  • Digital strategy
  • IT Transformation / IS Transformation: thanks to the adoption of new technologies required for digital transformation, strategic alignment of the IS with business objectives, agile IS Strategy and Governance, efficiency of the IS Department thanks to its alignment with best practices.
  • IS optimization and cost reduction for value creation
  • Defining a digital roadmap

Cybersecurity

The changing digital landscape is increasingly exposing companies to new forms of threat, as information systems evolve in interconnected environments.

Our specialized team of IS auditors and IT consultants will help you to :

  • Evaluate your cybersecurity strategy in line with your business model,
  • Map and control the risks associated with your exposure to the Internet and the resulting vulnerabilities,
  • Support you in implementing the actions you need to take to protect your business from hazards,
  • Assist you in defining and implementing your organization’s business continuity plan,
  • To enable you to meet your legal obligations with regard to cybersecurity,
  • Help you set up an insurance policy tailored to your cyber risks.

IS project management

We offer tailor-made support for all your information systems projects.

Whether you need assistance with project management, change management or crisis management, our team of high-level consultants will put in place methods adapted to your context, paying particular attention to the human dimension.
We ensure optimized management of your resources, budget and deadlines.

Compliance

To help you deal with your various compliance constraints, which are constantly evolving(HDS, SOX, Electronic invoicing, Reliable audit trail, RGPD, SOX, SOC 2, NIS Directive, DORA Regulation, Basel and Solvency prudential regulations, Standards, etc.), our experts are at your disposal to build with you and for you practical solutions that can be implemented quickly taking into account your challenges and means.

Faced with the risk of non-compliance with the RGPD, companies and organizations that collect and process data from European residents have a legal obligation to submit to measures to protect the privacy of individuals.
In light of these challenges, we provide our customers with one-off or ongoing support in the context of compliance, such as:

  • Carry out an RGPD compliance diagnosis of the organization,
  • Supporting the Data Controller in his role,
  • Support the organization in carrying out its personal data protection impact analysis,
  • Assist with incident management in the event of a data breach,
  • Assisting you as an outsourced DPO

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All our expert partners
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, Statutory Auditor and Chartered Accountant
Graduate of the ICS Bégué Business School
+33 (0)1 85 34 16 55
yvan.corbic@exponens.com

Yvan Corbic is a Partner in the Exponens Audit Department following the merger in 2012 with Synergie-Audit, where he held the position of Junior Partner.

Yvan has over 20 years’ experience in contractual and legal auditing, and has developed expertise in contractual audits of commonhold owners’ associations, homeowners’ associations (ASL), jointly-owned property facilities association (AFUL) and property management companies. In the field of statutory audits, Yvan Corbic provides services primarily in the industrial sector and to listed real estate companies in the social housing sector. These experiences have attuned him to the accounting and tax specificities of these sectors.

Yvan Corbic’s expertise in commercial real estate has been recognised by the Regional Council of the Ile-de-France Order of Chartered Accountants.

He provides training (social housing home loans (PSLA), off-plan projects (VEFA)) for ARECOOP (training organisation of the National Federation of Social Housing Cooperatives), as well as on the Hoguet, SRU, ALUR and Pinel Acts. He is also a quality controller for the regional statutory auditors’ association (CRCC).

Yvan Corbic
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Partner, Statutory auditor
Holder of a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from Paris Dauphine University and a post-graduate degree in Auditing from EM Strasbourg Business School
+33 (0)1 85 34 16 58
anne.mouhssine@exponens.com

Anne Mouhssine joined the Exponens Group after 13 years of experience in the audit department of PwC (listed companies, subsidiaries of British or US groups).

She currently performs legal and contractual audits of SMEs and mid-market companies, start-ups and French subsidiaries of foreign groups.

She is the audit reference person at Exponens for the BKR International group.

Anne Mouhssine
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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.

Transparency reports

We are proud of our independence and the quality of our audit work, which is why we disclose our transparency reports for the last five years.

See our transparency reports
See the 2023 report

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