Uma contribuição para o entendimento do uso das ferramentas de Corporate Performance Management (CPM) no sistema de contabilidade gerencial

Abstract

The object of study is the use of the tools of Business Intelligence (BI) more specifically those tools that support the concept of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) by Brazilian companies. Used as a form of technology in information systems for decision support (DSS) and Executive Information (IES) by the system of Management Accounting. The methodology was based on the theoretical foundations of Management Accounting as an instrument of the Controllership to provide information for decision-making; in the relationship of information systems with the Management Accounting; and the concept of BI and CPM through literature. We performed a research that is descriptive and uses a quantitative approach, using a questionnaire answered by the professionals of the Controllership and BI that use tools that support the concept of CPM. The sample consists of 22 companies. As a result it was concluded that the tools that support the concept of CPM facilitate changes in the management accounting tasks with different levels of extension and that companies are prioritizing the modules of the tools of Financial Planning and Financial Consolidation. We also found that companies with systems that support the concept of CPM have a design of the broad scope of management accounting, and worry about the timeliness and characteristics of the aggregation / integration