Contabilidade gerencial: um estudo no Brasil sobre diferentes ferramentas gerenciais para diferentes necessidades

Abstract

Considering constant changes in economic and financial environments, which are reflected in the companies, and needs of assessment and monitoring the performance of organizations by their managers, management tools, techniques and analysis relevant to management accounting, are demonstrating their importance as a support in decision-making. The present work objectifies to verify in Brazil management tools that are used or proposed, which differ from the usual practices of management accounting. The developed research is of the descriptive type, accomplished by means of bibliography research, with qualitative boarding and of longitudinal court. There were identified academic works, available in the base of data of the internet Google Scholar, that make reference to the term management tools. The results show that these works are present in articles published in different magazines, newspaper and doctoral thesis. There were identified different utilized and proposal management tools in relation to the same usually addressed by management accounting. It was evidenced that these identified management tools have distinct focus, however, all of them contribute to their common purpose, which is to aid in decision making. It is concluded on the existence of management tools differentiated from the usual practices of management accounting, however, it is noted that this subject has a extensive field to be explored by studies and research, both in relation to management tools already in use as on the development of new models to be proposed