Os impactos da conversão de demostrações financeiras preparadas de acordo com as práticas contábeis adotadas no Brasil para as normas internacionais de contabilidade - International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS): um estudo de caso da Companhia Arcelor Brasil S.A.

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2008

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This dissertation intends to contribute to the studies of the international accounting in a moment when this matter is becoming very relevant for the business scenario of our country, even for regulatory, academic or professional purposes. The convergence of accounting practices around the world is no longer something distant from our reality, and it is finally becoming real, specially after the launching of the IFRS, which have been prospectively adopted for a growing number of countries in the most relevant economies around the world. This became a one-way process, mainly after the acceptance of the most relevant stock and exchanges markets of the world, the North American, to this international set of accounting principles, as from 2007, as a strong set of accounting principles and consequently with no requirements of reconciliation to US GAAP for listed Foreign Private Issuers. Brazil, that has not been very enthusiastic in this global harmonization process, acted more effectively as from 2007 with the issuance of the Instruction number 457 from the Brazilian Stock and Exchange Commission (CVM), which determines that Brazilian listed companies shall file their annual consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS until 2010. Before this significant rule, some others have been made for other regulator bodies, such as Brazilian Central Bank (Bacen), which requests all financial institutions to present financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS also until 2010 and Brazilian Stock and Exchange (Bovespa), through the Novo Mercado, that regulated that companies must prepare complementary financial information to those filed for local market purposes, in accordance with either IFRS or US GAAP. The adoption of a set of accounting principles as IFRS, means a quantum leap in this search for a highest level of Corporate Governance and transparency to the users of financial statements. This occurs in a moment when the growth of the world economy has been creating important impacts in Brazil, through the significant increase in the number of Initial Public Offerings. This is one of the biggest advantages in providing financial information which a higher level of quality to the market, the possibility of obtain capital with a lower cost, through loans and financing with premium rates or through the issuance of equity instruments. This dissertation aims at the following objectives: discuss the impacts of the adoption of IFRS in Brazil, through the case study of a Brazilian company that has already made this conversion process of their financial statements from the Brazilian accounting policies to IFRS. The comparative analysis of the financial statements studied in this dissertation shows that the financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS provides a more comprehensive level of disclosures, if compared with those prepared in accordance with Brazilian accounting practices. However, the analysis of the financial index calculated from both financial statements shows that variations can be positive or negative, depending on the index. For this reason, the main conclusion reached in this case study is that a change in the mindset of those involved either in the preparation or the analysis of financial statements will be mandatory

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demonstrações financeiras contabilidade -- normas -- brasil international financial reporting standards ciencias contabeis arcelor brasil. s. a. (firma) -- contabilidade

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