Sistemas de custos como ferramenta para a mensuração e formação do resultado econômico nas empresas de auditoria: estudo aplicado em organizações no estado do Ceará.

Abstract

Costs adoption, determination and mesurement in the companies of audit services takes primary importance on creating and obtaining its results. This application can provide managers with alternatives which lead to the necessary efforts on reducing those costs and as subsidy of managerial decision. This need tends to configure in a more intense way within specific companies contexts, as in audit activity. Such companies can present vulnerabilities, whether they dont have consistent information, or even they dont consider the adoption of information models compatible with the demands of its work processes, products/services pricing, which would generate deficiencies concerning to the identification of its costs to price formation of those services, which are often, proposed to the customers in an empiric way, favouring damages that will affect its continuity. The aim of the present work is to analyze the use of costing systems used by audit services rendered companies, in Ceará state, verifying its use as tool of measurement of costs and subsidy to the sale price formation of rendered services and the creation of its economical result. Besides, identifying administration practices used for the services price formation was searched, as well as to know the managers' vision of those companies and to present a hypothetical test of the identification model and accumulation of economical results applied in audit services rendered companies. In that intention, the methodology applied was the application of a qualitative research accomplished in field through interviews with questions addressed the managers and partners of audit services rendered companies with larger number of customers and with registration in CVM (Commission of Furniture Value) in Ceará state. Through the result of accomplished research, it is verified that the audit companies dont use that control tool on measuring the services costs. The study shows that costs measurement application for services rendered by the audit companies in Ceará state, will certainty bring benefits joining larger value in companies decision and administration of its results, will grants the viability of its application.