Determinantes do nível de evidenciação financeira obrigatória de empresas S.A. de capital fechado

• Autor(a) principal: Afonso, Adelzira Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/2783
• topic: Capital Fechado; Evidenciação; Teoria do Disclosure; Ciências Contábeis; Divulgação de informações contábeis; Pequenas e médias empresas - Contabilidade.; 657

Financial information disclosure has been a key (strategic) process in business management. Both production and distribution of information are under normative issues that head companies’ accounts as well as the goals followed by accounting process managers. This study aims to identify the factors that explain the level of mandatory disclosure of anonymous private companies located in Espírito Santo State. To this end, this work analyzed private companies that published their balance accounts in either “Diário Oficial” of Espírito Santo State. A disclosure index was developed to measure the level of compliance of firms to the different levels of obligations they were subject to. Multiple linear regression models as well logistic regression models were employed. The Management Report and the Comprehensive Income Statement were the reports with lowest levels of compliance. Regarding determinants of disclosure, results are similar to observed in research about voluntary disclosure of public companies, when observed leverage, big four auditing company and age. However, the usual relationship of size with disclosure was not present in this research about mandatory disclosure.