Twenty-one years without monetary correction in Brazil: impacts on the comparability of the accounting information of siderurgical and metallurgical companies

Abstract The purpose of this study was to empirically verify the existence or not of a distortion in the comparability of information when inflationary effects are omitted from financial statements. Although inflation has been under control in Brazil since the Plano Real, with indices well below tho...

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Main Authors: Wellington Rodrigues Silva Souza, Marcos Peters, Aldy Fernandes da Silva, Maria Thereza Pompa Antunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2018-07-01
Series:Revista Contabilidade & Finanças
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-70772018000300355&lng=en&tlng=en