As discrepâncias na divulgação das despesas financeiras: um estudo das variações cambiais

• Autor(a) principal: Helms, Elisa
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1668
• topic: Demonstrações contábeis; Resultado financeiro; Despesas financeiras; Variações monetárias; Variações cambiais; Juros sobre capital próprio; Balanco (Contabilidade); Cambio; Fluxo de caixa; Financial statements; Financial result; Interest expenses; Monetary variation; Foreign exchange variation; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::CIENCIAS CONTABEIS

The companies, independently of their decisions, suffer the effect of foreign exchange variations, which have greater or minor intensity, depending on the financial leverage level in foreign currency, reflecting directly in its economical performance. The process of economic globalization, that has also stimulated the growth of the Brazilian stock market, has intensified the demand for information, with increasing necessity of accuracy and transparency of the financial figures, used for the assessment of companies performance. In this evaluation the financial result plays a very important role and it is in this context that foreign exchange variations have expressive importance. Thus, both interest expenses and interest income derived from foreign exchange variations should always be clearly segregated so that they can be treated appropriately to avoid inaccurate assessments from foreign analysts, who are not used to handling such strong and sharp exchange rate instabilities. This work presents the analysis of a research based on the financial figures of listed, high leveraged Brazilian companies, engaged in the production of pulp & paper, steel and energy utilities, related to the period from 2001 up to 2006, years in which the exchange rate showed significant instability. The results of the research indicate discrepancies, not only in the way interest income and expenses are presented in the Income Statement but also their presentation and content in the Explanatory Notes, showing the necessity of more uniformity and transparency in the accounting related to the financial interest and income derived from foreign exchange variations, despite the efforts of the legislator and the regulator entities to define disclosure procedures. This is due more to the fact that not all rules are mandatory being much more a question of ethics and corporate responsibility