Origem e evolução do ensino da contabilidade no Rio Grande do Sul: um estudo histórico do curso de ciências contábeis da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS

Abstract

This study aims to highlight the origin and development of teaching of accounting in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with emphasis, from 1909, on School of Commerce of Porto Alegre, attached to the Faculty of Law which will then become the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, where emerged the first course in Accounting Sciences from the state. To achieve this goal there was a qualitative research, based on bibliographic, news, documentary and oral references. The origin of accounting education in Rio Grande do Sul refers to the learning achieved in commercial companies and military and tax agencies, even in the Brazilian imperial period. In the decade of 1870 there is the appearance of the first school to offer the commercial education, even as a subject in secondary education. From the growth of commerce and organization of accounting professionals in the late nineteenth century, the teaching, then commercial, emerges as a new option for students and professionals