What Audicé does

Audicé is a French statutory audit firm (société de commissaire aux comptes) headquartered in Annecy, operating exclusively in the regulated audit profession with no consulting activities. The firm was formed in 2013 through the merger of F2A and ALTITUDE COMMISSARIAT, and it subsequently extended into the Drôme region via the AEXO merger and into Switzerland with a Geneva office opened in 2018. As of the latest disclosures, Audicé has approximately 15 collaborators and 2 registered commissaires aux comptes — Marc Paquier (Associé Président) and Cristina Da Cunha — managing more than 350 audit mandates across industry, services, retail, real estate, healthcare, associations, public sector, mutuals, and insurance clients in the French Alpine departments and the Genevois region.

The firm operates a portfolio of five core audit services: Audit légal (statutory financial audit with opinion on regularity, sincerity, and fair view of financial statements), Audit contractuel (acquisition audits, contributions, mergers, transformations, special advantages assessments), Audit Système d'information (IS audit in partnership with S2II), Audit d'acquisition, and SACC non-audit services. Audicé is also accredited as an OTI (Organisme Tiers Indépendant) under ISO 17029, enabling independent verification of environmental and societal commitments for Société à Mission clients under the Loi PACTE. The underlying methodology is a risk-based approach (approche par les risques) following French professional standards (NEP), with a structured internal control review preceding detailed account auditing.

Audicé's business model is a professional services firm with two pricing tracks. Legal audit fees are regulated under Article R823-12 of the French Commercial Code, calculated as a function of balance sheet total, operating revenue, and financial revenue, with exceptions requiring approval from the Compagnie Régionale. Contractual, IS, OTI, and SACC engagements are priced on estimated time, complexity, and required expertise. Demand is partly regulatory-driven (mandatory statutory audits for certain legal entities and mandatory OTI verification for Société à Mission), which provides a defensive baseline. Distribution is entirely direct: enterprise field sales via three offices (Annecy, Mours-Saint-Eusebe, Geneva), supplemented by a corporate website, a dedicated news portal (actualites.audice-alpes.com), LinkedIn presence, and an email newsletter. Transparency reports are published annually from 2022 through 2026.

Name

Audicé

Legal name

AUDICÉ

Website

https://audice-alpes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Audicé is a French statutory audit firm headquartered in Annecy with offices in Drôme and Geneva, serving 350+ clients across industry, public sector, associations, and insurance in the French Alps and Switzerland. It offers exclusively legal, contractual, IT, and ESG verification audits.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

ANNECY

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal/Statutory Audit Services: Statutory audit missions mandated by French commercial law. Fees for legal audits are regulated and calculated according to Article R823-12 of the French Commercial Code, based on balance sheet total, operating revenue, and financial revenue.
2. Contractual Audit Services: Contractual audit engagements including acquisition audits, contributions, mergers, transformations, and special advantages assessments. Pricing is set based on estimated time, complexity, and required expertise level.
3. IT System Audits: Information system audits evaluating IT performance and adequacy with business activities. Conducted in partnership with S2II for technical analysis components.
4. RSE/OTI Verification Services: Verification services for companies with mission (Société à Mission) under ISO 17029 standard, providing third-party independent verification of environmental and societal data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Audicé is an independent French statutory audit firm (commissaire aux comptes) that certifies financial statements and delivers contractual, IT, acquisition, and ESG verification audits. The firm serves more than 350 mandates across public, private, associative, and insurance sectors through three offices in France and Switzerland. Revenue is generated exclusively from professional audit fees under French regulatory fee schedules or time-and-complexity based pricing for contractual engagements.

Product overview

Audicé is a statutory audit firm offering a unified portfolio of audit services. The core offering consists of five interconnected audit products: Audit légal (legal/financial audit), Audit contractuel (contractual audit), Audit Système d'information (IT audit), Audit d'acquisition (acquisition audit), and Services Autres que la Certification des Comptes (SACC). Additionally, Audicé provides OTI (Organisme Tiers Indépendant) verification services for companies with mission status under ISO 17029. The firm specializes exclusively in statutory auditing registered with the Compagnie Régionale des Commissaires aux Comptes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Audit légal (Statutory Audit)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 350 audit mandates managed across multiple sectors

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• S2II (Société pour l'Informatique Industrielle)coreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic IT audit partner for technical analysis. S2II conducts technical tests and surveys within client information systems using specialized audit software, complementing Audicé's financial audit expertise for comprehensive IS audits.
• Observatoire des Sociétés à MissioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as referenced OTI (Organisme Tiers Indépendant) on the Observatory's website for companies with mission status, enabling Audicé to serve clients requiring mandatory third-party verification under the PACTE law.
• ALPAWEBminorOthersWebsite development agency based in Chavanod, France that created and maintains the Audicé corporate website.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Mazars: French-headquartered international audit and advisory firm with strong regional presence and a comparable mid-market and SME client base, making it the most directly comparable peer in the French statutory audit market.
• BDO France: Global audit network with significant French regional office coverage, competing for the same mid-market statutory audit, contractual audit, and OTI verification mandates.
• RSM France: International audit network with a strong French mid-market and SME practice, comparable in client profile (regional industrials, services, associations) to Audicé.
• Grant Thornton France: Member of a global audit network serving mid-market French companies, regional firms, and mutuals—directly overlapping Audicé's SME and association client segments.
• Crowe France: Global audit network active in the French mid-market segment, offering statutory audit and advisory services comparable to Audicé's product portfolio.
• Baker Tilly France: International audit and advisory network with French regional offices serving SMEs, mutuals, and associations—the same verticals targeted by Audicé.

Broad incumbents

• PwC France: Big 4 firm with extensive French regional presence and strong ESG assurance practice; competes with Audicé for Société à Mission OTI verifications and larger mid-market mandates.
• EY France: Big 4 firm with French regional offices serving mid-market and large-cap audit clients; competes for cross-border mandates and ESG assurance work in Audicé's territory.
• KPMG France: Big 4 firm offering a full range of audit, tax, and advisory services in France, competing for larger mandates and setting the quality/regulatory benchmark against which regional firms like Audicé are measured.
• Deloitte France: Big 4 firm with a French regional network and integrated advisory offering; competes for larger statutory audit and OTI verification mandates in Audicé's verticals.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/audic%C3%A9-alpes

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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