Mudanças nos princípios contábeis, na evolução da teoria e normas de contabilidade

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Leda Honorato da Silva
• Orientador(a): Marion, José Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Contábeis e Atuariais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contábeis e Atuariais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Contabilidade - Normas; Contabilidade - Brasil - História; Normas Internacionais de Relatório Financeiro
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Accounting - Standards; Accounting - Brazil - History; International Financial Reporting Standards
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::CIENCIAS CONTABEIS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20304

Accounting has been evolving over years through International Schools, mainly Italian and American. The Industrial Revolution, the Great War, and the Crisis of 1929 brought needs for accounting doctrines and standards improvement. In a recent period, economy Globalization forced Accounting to make international harmonization one hundred and fifty countries in the world, including Brazil norms and accounting principles, and almost all of them, chose IFRS as their accounting doctrine. From this perspective the changes in the Theory of Accounting can influence the whole study of Accounting. The main objective of this research is to identify the economic factors and the regulatory instruments that motivated the changes in Accounting Thinking in Brazil. The descriptive qualitative research method, on historical evolution, bibliographical, supported in representative literature and regulatory instruments pertinent to the regulation of the object of the study was used. The results proved that the normative instruments enforce the necessary procedures for the perfect harmony between company, investors and government, according to the economic necessity of the time. The basic conceptual structure changed significantly with the extinction of important terms such as: accounting principles, postulates and conventions, and new terminologies emerged as: qualitative characteristic, underlying premise, basic assumption