Aproximação entre contabilidade gerencial e contabilidade financeira com a convergência contábil brasileira às normas IFRS

Abstract

This study investigate whether the adoption of IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards, through Comite de Pronunciamentos Contabeis – CPC – standards, results in significant approximation of the concepts used by management accounting and financial accounting in Brazilian companies. Regarding the adoption of international accounting standards (the standards of the International Accounting Standards Board IASB) in Brazil, called brazilian accounting convergence, financial accounting has undergone significant change in standards. This change occurred through standards of the CPC or the adoption of IFRS. Backed by a basic conceptual framework that included the primacy of substance over form in the recognition, measurement and disclosure in accounting standards introduced new concepts such as fair value measurement of assets that use the economic substance of transactions as a premise for the accounting records. In turn, management accounting has the discretion necessary to use in determining the economic substance of transactions for companies` internal users to make decisions. There were a small number of researchers who study directly the relationship between financial and managerial accounting. Even though the development of these methods of accounting have taken different paths, the same basic benchmark, tied to economic substance, may lead to the understanding that the adoption of international accounting standards could bring financial and managerial accounting together. Content analysis was made in the selected standards, based on a document issued by CPC, which pointed out the topics existing in the standards of probable major impact on financial statements. There were selected relevant criteria and more likely to bring together financial and managerial accounting. These focus criteria served as a reference in the elaboration of a structured questionnaire by theories studied, primarily institutional theory. The questionnaire was sent to 638 Brazilian companies, which approximately 10.3% were received answered. Some of the responses generated frequency analysis in Likert scale. It was identified that occurred approximations due to obtained evidence, though not in all cases investigated. Results can contribute to teaching and learning in the context of the new international accounting standards. Companies and regulators can identify points of attention for discussion in order to best practices in future actions.