Uma contribuição à análise dos métodos de custeio aplicados às atividades hospitalares

Abstract

The opening and stabilization of the economy has caused fierce competition to arise between companies, which, therefore, are faced with the problem of how to manage to survive. Naturally, health institutions are also part of this reality. A company's survival guarantee is dependent upon the good results it shows. A company's results are directly related to a whole set of decisions made by the management. The decision-making process comprehends the phases of planning, execution and control. Adequate cost control can lead to the achievement of the previously agreed planning, thus allowing the good results which are necessary for the company's survival to be attained. Thus, this thesis is intended for contributing to an analysis of Cost Accounting, limiting the study to the methods of costing and their applicability to health institutions. The thesis presents a panorama of the health systems, the fundamentals of Cost Accounting and the characterization of these concepts in a health institution. An example of the application of the methodologies of costing by absorption, costing based in activities and variable costing, on which a reflection has been made, is given. The thesis, however, is not meant to be fully comprehensive and finished, allowing further contributions from other researchers to be made.