Retail Case Studies

Audit & financial requirements

Statutory auditor of the Carrefour Group

With a global presence in 33 countries, 60% of Carrefour’s revenue comes from abroad. The group is the second largest retailer worldwide. The multinational retailer appointed Mazars as its statutory auditor in 2011 to strengthen its external audit procedure. Before this appointment, Mazars conducted assessments of key control procedures for several countries including Argentina, China, Spain, France and Greece.

Aligning organizations with new market opportunities

Securing the Casino Group’s acquisition process

The Casino Group operates a wide range of hypermarkets, supermarkets, and convenience stores in France, Asia and South America, with close to 4,000 stores. Commercial partnerships and acquisitions are an important lever of development for the Casino Group to contribute to its growth and new markets strategy. Mazars’ team assisted the group with several acquisition projects, mainly related to franchisee networks, by performing financial and tax due diligence.

Securing operations & improving risk management

Establishing cash register control procedures for a large clothing and accessories retailer

With more than 500 stores and 800 cash registers, one of our clients was looking for a trusted partner that could secure cash flows and shorten delays. For this assignment, Mazars was asked to establish cash control procedures, review reported revenue, design dashboards, perform bank reconciliations and handle non-cash methods of payment.

Designing new internal control standards for logistics and supply chain activities

Mazars was selected to design new internal control standards and optimize supply chain management for a client with approximately 70 points of sale in five countries, including France, the United Arab Emirates and China. This assignment has allowed our client to improve the performance control of physical flows and financial information.

Reviewing the manual accounting entries of an international entertainment retail chain with SCAN-D™

Mazars was asked to set up flow accounting on behalf of an international entertainment retail chain. Our team analyzed the manual accounting entries by operation type, store, department, function and user with Scan-D™, our exclusive data analysis tool. A proposal to reduce the volume of manual accounting operations and to limit the number of operations that needed to be registered manually was also presented.

Improving performance

Assistance for a high-stakes IT project

One of our clients, a group composed of approximately 1,000 legal entities, undertook a project to reorganize its Finance Department using a reliable and effective consolidation tool. The group asked Mazars, which was already advising them with tax matters (fiscal integration, tax documentation, deferred tax reliability), to provide assistance with the migration of their IT system.

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