Análise comparativa do Método de Custeio Por Absorção e do Sistema de Custeio ABC nas pequenas empresas prestadoras de serviços contábeis: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The business environment is continuously changing and struggling to survive has become a difficult task for the companies. Due to this, the rendered service companies are willing to maintain competitiveness by providing better quality services which fulfill the consumer’s needs at a market price. In this context, the cost and expenses variables turn to be essential in the decision-making process, once the company seeks to reach its aim which is the economic profit maximization and its continuity. This study aim at verifying the method which best fits the decision making of the small rendered service companies. The present study it was based on techniques of indirect documentation (bibliographical research) and direct (field research), with intensive direct comment. The strategy of used research was the case study. The research starts with the presentation of the small rendered service companies’ features. Aiming at to reach the considered objective, a case study is presented, approaching the application of the costing methods for Absorção and Activity Based Cost - ABC and later made a comparative analysis between the applied methods. It is concluded that the ABC system is the most adequate, therefore it considers the activities, not the products nor services, as the responsible for the consumption of the Companies’ resources, making the indirect cost allocation possible and an evaluation of the activities that aggregate and those that do not contribute to the business profit-making, making possible that the companies who use this method are more competitive in the market.