Alexandre Vertes: uma vida dedicada à contabilidade

Abstract

The objective of this research is to make clear the contribution of Professor Alexandre Vertes, Ph.D., to the teaching, research, and diffusion of Accounting knowledge. In order to reach such goals, a qualitative approach using resources from thematic oral history and documental research is employed. Professor Vertes was born in Budapest, Hungary. He attended the Uneversitatis Regiae Hungaricae Scientiarum Technicarum at Oeconamicarum Palatinus Josephus, Budapest, Hungary where he graduated in Economics; he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1937, being awarded an Oeconamiae Publicae Doctorem; and in 1949 he concluded the Forensic Accounting Expert Program, when he was awarded a Certified Public Accountant license. He moved to Brazil after the end of World War II, devoting himself to the academic field ever since. For the next 30 years he worked at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) as a lecturer, responsible for the upbringing of countless professionals and lecturers in the Economics and Accounting f