FRANCOPHONE ACCOUNTANT CHIEF SAYS STEADY PROGRESS IS KEY TO SPREAD ACCOUNTING EXCELLENCE IN AFRICA

BY DAVID HAYHURST, IN PARIS When talking to Accounting & Business in her Paris office, Michèle Cartier Le Guérinel often struggles to make herself heard over the noise of the renovations shaking the walls on either side of her. Several floors of her international accountancy organisation FIDEF's headquarters, in an anachronistically new and large building on an otherwise quiet street in the most elegant seventh arrondissement (a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower), are undergoing a thorough makeover. But perseverance and adaptability have long been at ...


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