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Luc PAUGAM

Associate Professor

Accounting and Management Control

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Biography

Luc Paugam is the holder of the Forvis Mazars chair Purposeful Governance. He obtained a Ph.D. in financial accounting and a MSc in Finance from Université Paris Dauphine. Luc graduated from ENS Paris-Saclay and is a CFA charterholder. His research focuses on issues surrounding financial reporting of M&As (goodwill, intangible assets), corporate whistleblowing, CSR, and bank reporting. Luc has published in several academic journals including Accounting, Organizations & SocietyAbacusComptabilité Contrôle Audit, Contemporary Accounting Research, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Strategic Management Journal. Books co-authored by Luc include Brand Valuation (Routledge), Evaluation Financière et Normes IFRS (Economica) and Evaluation Financière de la Marque (Economica). Luc teaches financial accounting in the Grande Ecole and MBA programs. Prior to joining HEC Paris, Luc has been a consultant in corporate finance, an associate professor at ESSEC Business School and a visiting scholar at the University of Houston. Luc is an associate editor of European Accounting Review and a board member of the Journal of Business Finance & AccountingAccounting and Business Research, Accounting in Europe, Accounting Forum and a member of CFA France. He received the ESSEC foundation teaching award in 2016.

Scientific articles

Shaping collective action in financial markets through popular expertise: An analysis of Due Diligence posts on WallStreetBets

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Forthcoming, vol. 114, n° 101588, (in coll. with Y. GENDRON, A. MADELAINE, H. STOLOWY)

Grabbing Investor Attention with Limited Resources: A Study of Small Cap Firms’ Communication Channels

European Accounting Review, 2025, vol. 34, n° 1, pp 123-151, (in coll. with R. Boulland, A. Filip, A. Ghio)

Breaking Incommensurability Boundaries? On the Production and Publication of Inter-Paradigmatic Research

Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, October 2023, vol. 20, n° 5, pp 675-694, (in coll. with Y. GENDRON, H. STOLOWY)

Sustainability reporting: Is convergence possible?

Accounting in Europe, 2023, vol. 20, n° 2, pp 139-165, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY)

Disclosures about key value drivers in M&A announcement press releases: An exploratory study

Abacus, March 2022, vol. 58, n° 1, pp 62-104, (in coll. with A. FILIP, G. J. LOBO, H. STOLOWY)

Competing for narrative authority in capital markets: Activist short sellers vs. financial analysts

Accounting, Organizations and Society, July 2022, vol. 100, n° 101334, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. GENDRON)

Deploying narrative economics to understand financial market dynamics: an analysis of activist short sellers’ rhetoric

Contemporary Accounting Research, Fall 2021, vol. 38, n° 3, pp 1809-1848, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. GENDRON)

Managerial Discretion to Delay the Recognition of Goodwill Impairment: The Role of Enforcement

Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, January-February 2021, vol. 48, n° 1-2, pp 36-69, (in coll. with A. FILIP, G. J. LOBO)

Accounting Information in Innovative Small Cap Firms: Evidence from London's Alternative Investment Market

Accounting and Business Research, 2021, vol. 51, n° 4, pp 421-456, (in coll. with A. FILIP, A. GHIO)

Implications of the Joint Provision of CSR Assurance and Financial Audit for Auditors’ Assessment of Going Concern Risk

Contemporary Accounting Research, Summer 2020, vol. 37, n° 2, pp 1248-1289, (in coll. with L. DAL MASO, G. J. LOBO, F. MAZZI)

Books

Comptabilité et analyse financière – Une perspective globale - 5ème édition

EMS Editions (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING, G. LANGLOIS )

Financial Accounting and Reporting – A Global Perspective - 7th edition

Cengage (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

财务报告与分析:一种国际化视角 (Cai wu bao gao yu fen xi: yi zhong guo ji hua shi ye) (Chinese adaptation of “Financial Accounting and Reporting – A Global Persp

CEIBS Publishing (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

Financial accounting and reporting - A global perspective - 6th edition

Cengage (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

Brand Valuation

Routledge, London (in coll. with P. ANDRÉ, H. PHILIPPE, R. HARFOUCHE )

Evaluation financière de la marque

Editions Economica (in coll. with H. PHILIPPE, D. AGUILAR )

Evaluation financière et normes IFRS

Editions Economica (in coll. with O. RAMOND, J.-F. CASTA, L. BATSCH )

Chapters in edited books

Capitaux propres

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Une Perspective Globale, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 463-508

Principes comptables et régularisations de fin d’exercice

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 165-208

Regroupements d’entreprises

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 561-602

Working papers

Case Studies

Scientific articles

Grabbing Investor Attention with Limited Resources: A Study of Small Cap Firms’ Communication Channels

European Accounting Review, 2025, vol. 34, n° 1, pp 123-151, (in coll. with R. Boulland, A. Filip, A. Ghio)

Shaping collective action in financial markets through popular expertise: An analysis of Due Diligence posts on WallStreetBets

Accounting, Organizations and Society, Forthcoming, vol. 114, n° 101588, (in coll. with Y. GENDRON, A. MADELAINE, H. STOLOWY)

Breaking Incommensurability Boundaries? On the Production and Publication of Inter-Paradigmatic Research

Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, October 2023, vol. 20, n° 5, pp 675-694, (in coll. with Y. GENDRON, H. STOLOWY)

Sustainability reporting: Is convergence possible?

Accounting in Europe, 2023, vol. 20, n° 2, pp 139-165, (in coll. with H. STOLOWY)

Books

Comptabilité et analyse financière – Une perspective globale - 5ème édition

EMS Editions (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING, G. LANGLOIS )

Financial Accounting and Reporting – A Global Perspective - 7th edition

Cengage (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

财务报告与分析:一种国际化视角 (Cai wu bao gao yu fen xi: yi zhong guo ji hua shi ye) (Chinese adaptation of “Financial Accounting and Reporting – A Global Persp

CEIBS Publishing (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

Financial accounting and reporting - A global perspective - 6th edition

Cengage (in coll. with H. STOLOWY, Y. DING )

Chapters in edited books

Capitaux propres

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Une Perspective Globale, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 463-508

Principes comptables et régularisations de fin d’exercice

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 165-208

Regroupements d’entreprises

Comptabilité Et Analyse Financière, Hervé Stolowy, Yuan Ding, Luc Paugam et Georges Langlois, EMS Editions, 561-602

Working papers

Case Studies

Education

  • Habilitation to conduct research, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • CFA Charterholder, CFA Institute USA - USA
  • Ph.D., in Business Administration, Financial Accounting, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • MSc in Finance, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • Bachelor, Economics, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - France
  • Agregation, Economics and Management, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2023- Mazars - Purposeful Governance Chair Holder HEC Paris

Awards & honors

  • 2018 Best Paper Award: "Accounting Information in Innovative Small and Medium Entities" 13th World Congress of Accounting Educators and Researchers, Sydney November 2018, The University of Sydney, IAAER (in collaboration with Andrei Filip and Alessandro Ghio)