Nível de aderência das práticas contábeis dos passivos contingentes ao CPC 25: uma análise das empresas sucroalcooleiras do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The adherence to the rules of recognition, measurement and disclosure of information in the explanatory notes, provides greater reliability in the presentation of financial statements to users for analysis and decision making. The accounting rules, correlated to international Standards, were issued by the CPC and one of them was the Technical pronouncement, the CPC 25, which deals with the provisions and contingent liabilities and contingent assets. The contingent liability is an obligation of accounting difficult to recognition and measurement in view of the factors of uncertainty about the confirmation or not of their existence. In this context, this work had as main objective to know and analyze the criteria for the recognition, measurement and disclosure of information in the explanatory notes of the contingent liabilities (CPC 25), through a sample 17 companies corporations, capital opened and closed the sugarcane-ethanol sector in the State of São Paulo. The line of research was descriptive with qualitative and quantitative approach. The procedure used for data collection was the documentary research of primary and secondary sources and was motivated by its accessibility. Was analyzed a set of financial statements published annual with explanatory notes and published without explanatory notes, in the period between 2011 and 2015. The results obtained with the sample suggest that companies since segment not yet follow fully to what is required by the legislation in relation to criteria for recognition and disclosure of contingent natures and their respective content, demonstrating weakness in the context of dissemination of contingent information. These results are consistent with national and international studies conducted in other segments, which revealed low practice of disclosure and disclosure of contingent liabilities, especially the environmental.