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Article R232-21-1 of the French Commercial code

For the application of the provisions of the last paragraph of I of Article L. 232-23, a copy of the management report shall be delivered to any person, at his own expense, at the company’s registered office upon simple request. The cost of delivery may not exceed the cost of reproduction. The interested party shall be informed, at the time of his request, of the total amount of the fees…

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Article R232-22 of the French Commercial code

When the filing of the accounting documents is accompanied by a declaration of confidentiality of the annual accounts pursuant to Article R. 123-111-1, the clerk of the commercial court shall complete the request for insertion of the notice in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales made pursuant to articles R. 232-19 à R. 232-22, as follows: “The annual accounts shall be accompanied by a confidentiality statement pursuant to…

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Article R232-23 of the French Commercial code

I. – The report referred to in Articles L. 232-6, L. 232-6-1, L. 233-28-1 and L. 233-28-2, translated into French if necessary and certified as true, shall be filed with the commercial court registry, through the intermediary of the body referred to in the second paragraph of Article L. 123-33, to be appended to the trade and companies register, within twelve months of the end of the financial year. II….

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Article R232-24 of the French Commercial code

As soon as the filing provided for in Article R. 232-23 has been made, the clerk of the commercial court shall cause to be published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales a notice worded as follows: “The company having its registered office at , whose unique identification number is , has filed with the clerk of the commercial court of , where it is registered in the…

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Article R233-1-1 of the French Commercial code

For the application of VII of Article L. 233-7, the information shall be sent to the company and must reach the Autorité des marchés financiers no later than the close of trading on the fifth trading day following the day on which the shareholding threshold giving rise to the application of this article is crossed. .

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Article R233-2 of the French Commercial code

The shareholder information provided for in I of Article L. 233-8 shall take the form of a notice published in a medium authorised to carry legal advertisements in the département where the company has its registered office before the expiry of a period of fifteen days from the date of the annual ordinary general meeting or from the date on which the company became aware, between two general meetings, of…

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Article R233-3 of the French Commercial code

The consolidated accounts provided for in this book are prepared using the full consolidation method, the proportional consolidation method or the equity method. In the full consolidation method, the consolidated balance sheet includes the assets and liabilities of the consolidating company, with the exception of the securities of consolidated companies, the book value of which is substituted by all the assets and liabilities constituting the equity of these companies determined…

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Article R233-4 of the French Commercial code

The consolidated income statement includes: 1° The components: a) The profit or loss of the consolidating company; b) The profit or loss of fully consolidated companies; c) The proportion of the profit or loss of proportionately consolidated companies that represents the interest of the holding company or companies ; 2° The fraction of the result of companies consolidated by the equity method, representing either the direct or indirect interests of…

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Article R233-5 of the French Commercial code

A company’s goodwill on first consolidation is allocated to the appropriate line items in the consolidated balance sheet; the unallocated portion of this goodwill is recorded under “goodwill” on the assets or liabilities side of the consolidated balance sheet. Goodwill recognised as an asset is taken to income over its useful life. In exceptional cases, where its useful life cannot be reliably determined, it is amortised over a period of…

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