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This paper investigates the relationship between the earnings management (GR) and the quality of the financial and extra-financial reporting. We examine the impact of three components of the CSR performance based on the analysis of 255 reference documents and CSR reports of 51 French firms pertaining to the SBF120 index. Ours findings indicate that the earnings management degrades the quality of the financial and extra-financial reporting. Also, we highlight that the CSR performance, especially the governance mechanisms, improves the quality of the CSR reporting. Finally, we show also that the environmental performance increases the use of earnings management practices.