Análise do Sistema Integrado de Contabilidade (SIC) sob a óptica do controle externo: estudo no Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Ceará

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, José Alexsandre Fonseca da
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sistemas de Informação; Tribunais de contas - Ceará
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/16393

Society’s participation in monitoring public spending, also known as social control, requires control bodies to present significant results. In order to perform more efficiently its constitutional role of external control, the courts of audit use several technological resources, such as accounting information systems. In this environment, the Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Ceará (TCE-CE) uses the Integrated Accounting System (SIC) to monitor budget execution, financial execution, inventory and accounting of bodies under its jurisdiction while it ensures a more effective control and collects information for better judgement. Thus, this research aims to analyze how well the SIC provides the information needed by the TCE-CE to perform its activities of external control. To do so, a case study was used as the main research strategy, on which the unit of analysis was the technical analysts from the TCE-CE who had access to the SIC, supported by documentary and bibliographical research. It is understood that, for this purpose, the research can be classified as exploratory, whereas the data collection was made possible by a semi-structured interview with an analyst developer of the SIC and by questionnaires applied to the technical analysts from the TCE-CE, designed with the help of a focus group formed by the most experienced analysts on the issues addressed in this study. Data analysis was performed using triangulation between the results of the questionnaires and the interview statements made by the analyst developer of the SIC. The results show that the SIC meets the listed atributes in part (55%), since the identified deficiencies interfere directly with the proper execution of the external control performed by the TCE-CE. But, it was possible to see evidence, that a comprehensive knowledge of the features of the SIC is under the tutelage of a few servers, creating the need for training of technicians and analysts about this system, as they also reflect the importance of monitoring the ongoing development of the System of Government Management by Results (S2GPR) by that court, preventing the inconsistencies of the SIC identified in this research from being replicated in the future.