Análise de demonstrações contábeis: uma estrutura de avaliação de desempenho das companhias brasileiras pelos private equity a partir das informações divulgadas.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop a performance analysis structure of the Brazilian companies, based on the literature, corroborated by the information disclosed in their financial statements in order to support the private equity investors estimate the value of an entity. To meet the proposed goal it was made a bibliographic research, aiming to identify the relevant elements to valuate a company concerning accounting and financial information. In this sense, it was developed the referred structure. It was conducted a research based on the document analysis technique, attempting to identify in the content of the financial statements of the selected companies the terms presented in the developed performance analysis structure. The research was descriptive and it was applied the qualitative and quantitative approach, to analyze the content of the four companies registered in the BOVESPA MAIS, part of the Clean Energy and Information Technology segments. The proposed goal of this study was reached, as the performance analysis structure was developed based on the literature and, the items of the strucuture had a high level index of presence in the financial statements of the companies analyzed, indicating that is possible to apply such structure in the process of estimating the value of a company.