O processo de adoção das Normas Internacionais de Contabilidade (IFRS): um estudo dos seus impactos no resultado apresentado nas demonstrações financeiras das empresas do segmento varejista de tecidos, vestuários e calçados com ações na BM&F - Bovespa

Abstract

The constitution of the Accounting Pronouncements Committee (CPC) followed by Laws 11.638/2007 and 11.941/2009 resulted in a very important moment in Brazilian accounting. The approval of these laws, especially the Law 11.638/07 represented a landmark in the convergence process of Brazilian Accounting Standards (BRGAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) of the International Accounting Standard Board (IASB), the European entity responsible for issuing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that have been adopted in more than 100 countries worldwide. All these efforts together with the internationalization of capital markets and economic growth an accelerated made Brazil a target for potential foreign investors and market analysts who use accounting information for investment analysis. The IFRS adoption in Brazil caused significant impacts on the financial statements of Brazilian companies, upon of adoption by pronouncement CPC 37 equivalent as IFRS 1 of IASB. The present study aims to investigate the overall impacts of the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the Income Statement of seven companies that comprise the retail segment of textiles, apparel and footwear, as specific objectives to ascertain the impact of the adoption of IFRS on financial statements of the research object, based on your notes and present effects the Income Statement, through a comparison of the main rules that affected the first adoption, as well to answer the central question: What the impacts the process of the IFRS adoption on the Income Statement of companies that comprise the retail segment of textiles, apparel and footwear with shares on the BM&F-BOVESPA?. The research result shows that the process of adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) generated impacts primarily by reclassifying income for the year 2009 for the comparative basis of the first IFRS financial statements published by the companies under study