Uma contribuição para o estudo dos instrumentos da contabilidade gerencial aplicados na gestão das empresas de transporte rodoviário de cargas

Abstract

In an essential and highly competitive economical branch as the road transport of loads, the effective administration depends of accurate and timely information to support the decisive process. The experienced verification of the difficulties of those companies in obtaining such information this research was orientated to reach the objective of verifying as the companies of road transport of loads use the instruments of the managerial accounting for the administration of costs, prices and investments. The research was accomplished through a study of multiple cases, in six companies of the branch, located in the State of São Paulo, through of semi-structured interviews, starting from the previous verification by questionnaires about the existence of the unit of research, the costing process, pricing and analysis of investments and with the application of previous tests validating the script of interviews used. It was verified that the researched companies know the instruments, however they still are not used in her fullness, mainly in the process of analysis of investments, dependent of the managers' intuition. As for the process of costing of the services, it was observed that the variable costing is the method more used, much more for the intrinsic needs of the business than for a conscious choice together to the conditionality of market of esteeming the costs through the cost-pattern and that the determination of prices by mark-up it is the method more used.