Implicações provocadas pela convergência às normas internacionais de contabilidade no reconhecimento de ativos intangíveis sob a perspectiva institucional: um estudo em empresas brasileiras de capital aberto

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the implications caused by the adoption of the International Accounting Standard (IAS) 38 normative in accounting recognition of intangible assets in a group of Brazilian companies, guided by the institutional theory. It is a descriptive study of qualitative and quantitative evidences which involved basically the consult enquiry of financial statements of a fifty-company sample classified in the BM&FBOVESPA Bovespa Index. It was chosen to restrict the study from 2006 to 2012, since this period of time embraces exercises characterized by the adoption in advance of the international accounting related to intangibles and exercises with the institutionalization of this new normative. The data analysis consisted in two main phases. Primarily, the procedures adopted by the companies to the recognition of the intangible assets and its adaptation to the compulsory accounting standards which relates this process were verified. Subsequently, it was identified the classes of intangibles recognized in the period and its respective valuation. In general, the evidences observed show that the implementation of the new institutional matrix about the intangibles reflected on the practiced adopted by the companies. The level of compliance passed from 32% in 2006 to 84% in 2012, showing an evolution on the harmonization of the practices adopted by the companies. Furthermore, although a raise of kinds of categories recognized after the institutionalization of the new normative was not determined, a significant increase on the representativeness of the intangible assets facing the total asset of the sample was identified. The mean values counted as intangibles increased 82% comparing to the previous and subsequent periods to the adoption of this norm.