Mazars and the sense of responsibility

Who is responsible, for what, and to whom? The notion of responsibility is at the heart of debates going on in our society today. Mazars provides answers to these questions on a daily basis: through its professional commitment, through the respect and the attention that it gives to its staff, through its sponsorship schemes and through its involvement in debates.

Mazars is an international, integrated and independent organisation specialising in audit, accounting, tax and advisory services, and responsibility has been at the heart of the values and principles that it is built on for a long time. It is this spirit that drives the 13,000 Group staff, present in 58 countries and spread throughout the 5 continents.

Mazars is evolving in a field where responsibility is a daily concern. The worlds of audit and consultancy are especially affected by responsibility, and civil responsibility just as much as criminal responsibility. The very high importance which we give to responsibility is the foundation of our work.

This is why Mazars has a clear and well-defined vision of responsibility, a balance between trust, entrepreneurial spirit and respect towards all.

Yet for Mazars, responsibility also means applying the same rules that we apply to others to ourselves. It is for this reason that we published our first annual report in January 2006, which presents our audited accounts in IFRS standards for the period 2004-2005.

This exercise is the first of its kind to be carried out by a global audit company and perfectly demonstrates the group’s desire for transparency and its vision of responsibility: responsible to our clients, responsible to the markets, and the partners’ responsibility towards each other.