The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Micro and Small Companies

• Autor(a) principal: Schreiber, Dusan
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Moraes, Margareth Aparecida, Stasiak, Ligia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vianna Sapiens
• Texto Completo: https://www.viannasapiens.com.br/revista/article/view/707
• topic: micro e pequena; pandemia; covid-19; Impactos Econômicos da Pandemia Covid-19; micro and small; pandemic; covid-19; economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic

The crisis that affects Brazil due to the Covid-19 related pandemic has a great impact on all business segments. In order to identify the financial and economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on micro and small companies located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre - RS, 21 companies taxed by Simples Nacional were analyzed. The methodological aspects used consist of a bibliographic review on the subjects relevant to the theme, providing subsidies for the collection of empirical data of the research, which can be considered exploratory and descriptive, supported by quantitative analyzes, multiple case studies with data of a documentary nature. In view of the results obtained, it was possible to verify that sixteen of the twenty-one companies analyzed had already suffered from a reduction in their earnings in the first months of the pandemic, and eleven companies reduced the number of employees through layoffs, only four used reductions and suspensions. made available by the government.