A implantação do sistema gerencial de custos (SISCUSTOS) desenvolvido pelo Exército Brasileiro: estudo de caso na 1ª Inspetoria de Contabilidade e Finanças do Exército

Abstract

The implantation of cost systems in the public sector has been pointed as a primary management need to reach the dimensions of the principles of efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness in public administration, a fact that would provide the optimization of the scarce available resources use. With the advent of the Fiscal Responsibility Law, the discussion on the topic is in vogue on the national scene, and more recently the federal government created an inter-ministerial cost committee in order to "elaborate studies and propose guidelines, methods and procedures to support the implementation of the Costs System in Federal Public Administration." Given these needs, this paper aims to verify the suitability of the Cost Management System (SISCUSTOS) implanted in the Brazilian Army allows the calculation of costs from the perspective of the accounting theory and, in addition, analyze whether the cost system fits ABC costing methodologies and provides information for decision making. For this, a case study of qualitative nature was done, collecting data from primary and secondary sources, besides the interviews with the officers responsible for the development, implementation and operation of the system. The result found was that the features offered by SISCUSTOS glimpsed the grip of the system with the theoretical level, allowing the information obtained from the contemporary government accounting to be adjusted for a possible nearing of the budget accounts to the patrimony accounting, requiring only a few adjustments to items designated here as peculiar to government accounting. In the case of ABC costing method, it was observed that the methodology is being underutilized, and that the desirable degree of extraction in all contributions made available by ABC will only come with maturity of cost management, considering that to achieve these goals there will be necessary to establish as cognitive attribute the 4C - Culture cost, Commitment, Competition and Reliability - between users of the system and the administration board.