Social Responsibility - Mazars Group

From the time Robert Mazars first set up office in the 1940s, right down to the international organisation of today, the responsibility has remained at the heart of our organisation. Our current teams have directly inherited the values of independence, transparency and responsibility handed down to them by the company’s founders. They, in their turn, pass on to future generations these fundamental values that rule the way ‘Mazarians’ relate to each other, and to their clients.

Professional responsibility, in everyone’s interest.

Mazars’ primary duty is to exercise a professional responsibility, to our clients, to markets, and to the economic and financial community as a whole. This responsibility is born naturally from the way we conceive our profession, putting people in the centre and favouring service in the general interest over pure profit-seeking. It also leads us to believe that rather than a proliferation of rules, our profession should be founded on principles, followed every day by professionals whose ethics and technical excellence are unquestionable.

As a forward thinking group, the Group has chosen to publish an Annual Report presenting their consolidated accounts in compliance with IFRS standards, co-audited and co-certified, under the same conditions as their stock-market Clients. This approach on responsibility and transparence towards our Clients and towards the international economic and financial community as a whole, was initiated in line with the publication of the 2004/2005 exercise Group results.

Involvement in the debate on ideas

Responsibility, also means for Mazars an active involvement in public debate, through stating opinions, through sponsorshipinitiatives and participating in several significant events.

We have also published a book of interviews with the top managers of major European, Asian and Middle-Eastern companies. Each of these personalities of the economic world expresses in the book what responsibility means for them as a director and for the company they run. The book, ‘ Corporate Accountability and Trust - Thoughts from 12 Top Managers ’ (Editions Economica) is on sale in bookshops in French, English, Spanish and Arabic.

Mazars is also sponsoring several events promoting dialogue and diversity around the world.

A social and environmental dynamic shared by everyone

Responsibility is one of Mazars’ essential values, which naturally led the Group to launch a dynamic process of environmental and social responsibility in 2008, spearheaded by the Partnership Social Responsabilty (PSR ) strategy meant to be deployed in the whole Group and at national level.

To improve its efficiency and guarantee its impact, we decided to structure our policy and our actions around 3 main themes:

• Sustainable development and environment,
• Support people and cultural diversity,
• Solidarity through skill-based sponsorship.

Mazars goes on with its Carbon Assessment

Our sustainable growth objective, which takes into account the impact of our activities on the environment, naturally led to a diagnosis of our greenhouse gas followed by a action plan to reduce it.

Women’s Forum

Since 2007, Mazars has been a partner of the Women’s Forum whose purpose is to promote, through dialogue and debate, women’s access to positions of corporate responsibility, in France and internationally.

Getting to grips with society’s challenges

Mazars teams throughout the world work on a daily basis, and through concrete local initiatives, in the service of their communities.

• Solidarity : Mazars’ involvement in Brazil
• An example of global commitment in the Netherlands
• The protection of the Moroccan Argan : an advance in research, supported by Mazars