Impacto das características específicas das companhias abertas brasileiras no nível de evidenciação contábil durante o processo de convergência às normas internacionais de contabilidade

• Autor(a) principal: Maia, Henrique Araujo
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/26238
• topic: contabilidade; empresas abertas; normais internacionais de contabilidade; accounting; public companies; international accounting standards; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::CIENCIAS CONTABEIS

The objective of this research is to evaluate the impacts of Brazilian non financial institutions public companies specific characteristics on the mandatory disclosure level during the convergence period to the international financial reporting standards in Brazil. Under the methodological aspect, this study can be classified as quantitative-qualitative, in the descriptive type. The target population of the study is the Brazilian non financial public companies, which the sampling is composed by those that are listed in the Bovespa s IBRX index, totalizing 83 companies in 2008- 2009 period, which data was obtained from the company s financial statements and footnotes in the Economatica s data bank. Using a mandatory disclosure index which consisted of 72 items related to accounting standards and technical guidances issued by the Comitê de Pronunciamentos Contábeis (CPC) with the purpose of promoting the convergence of Brazilian statutory accounting to international financial reporting standards, the mandatory disclosure index by each sample company was quantified. The data treatment was performed through a linear multivariate regression and an analysis of variance of one factor. The results of this study suggest that the specific characteristics related to ADRs fillings, auditor firm size and leverage have positive meaningful statistical correlation on mandatory disclosure level. In addition, it was verified that the mandatory disclosure level could be impacted by the industry-type in which company are inserted.