Bibliographie sélective OHADA

A comprehensive history of African, Malagasy, Mauritian and from the Comoros accounting standards, has not yet been established to allow to make a summary of all the past and current difficulties arising from it and to propose the conditions for a suitable accounting standard normalization which backs up the development of the OHADA members states. Following a chronology which sums up the major historical facts based on the lack of accounting doctrine coming from the OHADA ground realities, the competent authorities are widely invited to give their opinions about the matter. History, as another research method in accounting and control, is concerned.

Cette tribune repose sur la réalisation d’un recueil des points de vue de professionnels de la comptabilité ainsi que des organes intervenant dans la normalisation comptable Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires (OHADA) au Sénégal. Les résultats de l’investigation sont confrontés à la réglementation comptable en vigueur, afin de mieux cerner les grands axes de normalisation comptable dans l’espace OHADA. Ce travail est novateur dans le sens où peu de travaux académiques portent sur cette thématique à l’échelle de l’OHADA.

The quality financial information is useful for forecasting, monitoring and the development of performance within a company, the effectiveness of the optimal investment choices, risk management, the economic policy choices. After more than a decade of implementation by business, OHADA Accounting System has not changed significantly, which does not mean absence of difficulties in its practical application. This article is the status of these difficulties.

Tested answers through the use of an exploratory approach (with IT experts in ERP and accounting users) are brought to the issue of the impact of ERP use on standardized accounting practices. The OHADA (Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa) was used as an adjunct to conduct the study. The classic business accounting is changing as well as the paradigm of accounting teaching. Some accounting standards increasingly disappear.