Transparency Report 2020 - RSM France

To ensure the accuracy of the financial information for the past financial years, the first reflex in our business is often to look backwards. But at the beginning of 2021, despite what 2020 will have taught us, we are looking to the future.

Strengthened by our ability to work together, to innovate in our solutions and to reinforce the meaning of our mission as a trusted third party, 2020 will have been an accelerator for RSM, the world's 6th largest audit, expertise and consulting network. This year has enabled us to redefine our priorities and anticipate those of our clients. Our first concern has been the safety and well-being of our employees.

Since March 2020, they have continued to carry out their missions without fail. The transformation dynamic in which RSM was already engaged enabled the rapid implementation of remote work to guarantee the safety of all. The missions were carried out without interruption. Innovation and digitalisation have been our daily routine.

We sincerely thank our teams for their involvement with our clients, entrepreneurs, financial managers and executives, and their commitment at all times.

Their ability to act and react quickly, their empathy and their mobilisation have been and continue to be exemplary.

In the last quarter of 2020, all RSM partners in France agreed to the merger of the regional entities into one common entity: RSM France.

This collective commitment is at the service of our stakeholders at a time when managers, regulators and partners expect a relationship of trust, anticipation, sincerity and proximity from their statutory auditor and from all the auditing professions. The action plan for the growth and transformation of companies (known as the PACTE law) has introduced the status of a company with a mission. The action plan for the growth and transformation of companies (known as the PACTE law) has introduced the status of a company with a mission. In order to lay the foundations of our new organisation, the partners of RSM France are committed to this fundamental reflection by defining their raison d'être.

As we enter the year 2021, uncertainty still prevails. We do not know when this global crisis will end, but we already know that its impacts on the economy and on society will require us to be resilient. That is why we want to reaffirm our role in the economy. We are convinced that in order to build a society of trust, our mission is essential to secure decision-making in the service of business growth. This is what we are committed to.