Análise de custos como ferramenta de gestão estratégica da educação superior: um estudo dos conceitos do ponto de equilíbrio e margem de contribuição e sua aplicabilidade em IES privada

Abstract

From the middle of the last century opens , through the Law of Education Guidelines and Bases (LDB) , the possibility of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) provide private undergraduate and graduate . As a result, extends to competition in this area, because in this period there will be various private institutions in order to meet the new demand . In the face of current educational competition , comes into existence the need to strategically manage these institutions . In order to contribute to the care of their management , this study comes up with the general objective of studying the tools of strategic cost management , contribution margin and breakeven , in a private institution . For the achievement of the overall objective , we proceeded to the realization of specific objectives , where the research took in size the concepts of contribution margin , and your property , set the balance point and its applicability , and finally establish the generation of an appropriate method of performance analysis based on the above tools , all applied this in a private institution . This is made the study through field research that is effective as a case study to perform an action research in eight degree from a private institution courses. At the end of it, we were able to achieve the goals and objectives listed above , in addition to have the question answered problem because , despite some difficulties encountered with the implementation of the phases and steps proposed was to portray as the elements in the analysis of costs contribute to the identification and projection of results , such as the identification of courses that give the best and worst results , the projection of the number of students required to maintain a course as well as courses leverage opportunities , among others.