Adoção dos padrões internacionais de contabilidade pública no exército brasileiro na percepção de membros de suas setoriais contábeis.

Abstract

This research has as main objective to evaluate the perception of the members of the Provinces of Accounting and Finance of the Army (ICFEx) on convergence of the Brazilian public accounting to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), within the scope of the Land Force. Institutional theory is used to support the changes in this new accounting standard. For the development of the study, a sample of 71 military personnel answered a survey with four blocks of questions based on the following aspects: Block I - interpretation of the norms; Block II - perception of norms; Block III - cost x benefits of IPSAS implementation; And Block IV - educational responsibility. From these blocks, the research hypotheses were developed that were submitted to the test of mean difference (t-student) to solve the proposed objectives. The quantitative and qualitative analyzes of the collected data allowed to reach the results that in block I (t-student 19.7453; p-value 0.0000), rejecting the null hypothesis at a significance of 1%; Block II presented the t-student test result 17.0015 and p-value 0.0000, leading to the rejection of the null hypothesis at a significance of 1%; Block III (t-student 14,5517; p-value 0.0000) also confirm the rejection of the null hypothesis at a significance of 1%; And, finally, in Block IV (t-student 7.0576; p-value 0.0000), the alternative hypothesis is not rejected at a significance of 1%. In this way, it is concluded that the implementation of IPSAS in Brazilian public accounting, especially in the Brazilian Army, is being advantageous and that this process of convergence is enabling Brazil to take an important path in the search for international legitimacy.