Custeio Baseado em Atividades (ABC) Aplicado ao Setor Público: estudo de caso no Colégio Militar do Rio de Janeiro (CMRJ)

Abstract

The objective of this research was to verify whether the method of Activity Based Costing (ABC) is suitable to be applied in measuring the costs of educational services in the Public Sector. This paper becomes relevant due to the need of public organizations that provide educational services to enable, through its costs systems, the monitoring and evaluation of management aspects as budgetary, financial and patrimonial. However, the Integrated Financial System Management of Federal Government (SIAFI) does not show the cost of each activity on its accounts. The analyses of results suggests that the Activity Based Costing (ABC) is suitable to measure the costs of Activities and management of resources by the Public Sector, specially, the organizations that provide educational services, where practically all of its costs are indirect and apparently fixed, and this fact, according to Kaplan (1998), makes these organizations ideal candidates to activity-based costing (ABC). Method used has the "main purpose to develop, clarify and modify ideas to provide searchable hypothesis for further studies" as teach by Tripodi, Fellin, and Meyer (1981, p.64). Finally, this research is characterized as descriptive and qualitative study and had as a source of research the revision of literature and the documental analyze, used as a methodological strategy a case study at the Military College of Rio de Janeiro (CMRJ).