Estudo comparativo de padrões representativos de contabilização das operações de derivativos

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to research and compare accounting rules emanated from the FASB and from the Brazilian Central Bank applied to Derivatives. The fact that financial institutions run popular savings funds and the fact that they also represent an important link between several economic agents , enhances the importance of the performance and of the stability of the financial system. The activity of the financial institutions involve several risks which can lead to the insolvency and consequently the ruin of the popular savings. The use of transactions with derivatives by financial institutions as hedging of the operations themselves and for speculation, have become more popular over the years. Therefore it is of utmost importance to know risks those financial institutions run when they carry out said transactions and also how those risks are being dealt with, accounted for and evidenced to their clients. In this work we have tried to compare the accounting rules, apart from evidencing that transactions with derivatives have been carried out according to the international standards. The survey concluded that the Brazilian accounting system derived from the Brazilian Central Bank resembles those of IASB and FASB. Therefore it has been evidenced that those entities outside the scope of the Central Bank, do not possess accounting rules which deal adequately with operations with derivatives.