A primeira adoção das normas internacionais de contabilidade: ensaio nas demonstrações financeiras das empresas brasileiras do setor da construção civil e incorporação imobiliária

• Autor(a) principal: Watanabe, Léo
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• 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/1757
• topic: Construção civil; Normas Internacionais (IFRS); Contabilidade -- Normas; Industria de construcao civil -- Contabilidade; Incorporacao imobiliaria -- Contabilidade; Civil construction; Real estate incorporation; International Standards (IFRS); Accounting; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::CIENCIAS CONTABEIS

The recent changes in accounting in Brazil as result of the strong global effort toward universal accounting language, fact that has lead many nations to participate in accounting standardization processes pursuant to the publications of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), have forced the Brazilian capital market to mandate the adoption of international accounting standards by companies listed in the BOVESPA stock exchange as of the beginning of 2008. In this scenario of change there are many questions arising from the new accounting practices. Accounting, as the major instrument of keeping record of equity changes, is tasked with efficiently providing users the outcome of its analysis, i.e. equity information. The focus of this paper is therefore the question that is raised: Do the international accounting standards affect the reporting of this equity through the financial indexes of companies? Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate if in the civil construction industry, with the First Time Adoption (IFRS 1), showed relevant difference in said financial indicators. To this end, 25 civil construction companies listed in the BOVESPA stock exchange underwent analysis. The tests used were the t-student, for parametric matched samples, and the Wilcoxon, for non-parametric matched samples. The results reveal the existence of significant difference in the financial indexes presented below: General Liquidity Index, General Solvency Index, Current Liquidity Index, Dry Liquidity Index, Indebtedness Ratio, Gross Margin and Global Mark-up. Only one financial index did not allow for statistical verification of significant changes in the Net Margin. As secondary purpose, it is verified if the average of the differences in the proportions of each equity group in order to show the major causes of this change. It revealed that companies suffer impacts of different magnitude, with high discrepancies of values both positively and negatively