Economic-financial performance of brazilian footwear industries: an analysis of the period from 2000 to 2006
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11606/rco.v3i6.34744Keywords:
financial statements, economic and financial analysis, standards-index, ranking of companiesAbstract
This study aims to evaluate the economic and financial performance of Footwear Brazilian industry, resulting in useful information to professionals of this area to take decisions. The environment of the segment is characterized since the decade of 1980, when the competitive market started to demand more quality in the management activities. In this context, the accounting is seen as one of the sources of necessary information to the efficient use of resources. It is an exploratory and documental research, whose data were analyzed under quantitative approach. The data were obtained from financial statements published, corresponding to the period from 2000 to 2006, and involving 15 industries. The use of 30 indicators made it possible to analyze the companies, by means of index-standards. The ranking of the companies was based on the methodology applied by Exame Melhores e Melhores magazine. The main results appointed stability in the liquidity, improvement in the solvency and short term indebtedness ratios. The operational activity presents fall in the net sales and increase in the average level of inventories and day sales outstanding. As a partial consequence of the fall in the assets turn-over level, it was identified a reduction in profitability margins. The operational damages recovery was given in function of the profits in the financial market investments. In the ranking of the period, the companies Dilly Nordeste and São Paulo Alpargatas are present in first and second places, respectively.Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
The RCO adopts the Free Open Access policy, under the standard Creative Commons agreement (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The agreement provides that:
- Submission of text authorizes its publication and implies commitment that the same material is not being submitted to another journal. The original is considered definitive.
- Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are authorized to take additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g. publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with necessary recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal page) before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes as well as increase the impact and citation of published work (See The Effect of Free Access).
- The journal does not pay copyright to the authors of the published texts.
- The journal's copyright holder, except those already agreed in the Free Open Access Agreement (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), is the Accounting Department of the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo.
No submission or publication fees are charged.
Up to 4 authors per article are accepted. Exceptionally duly justified cases may be reviewed by the Executive Committee of the RCO. Exceptional cases are considered as: multi-institutional projects; manuscripts resulting from the collaboration of research groups; or involving large teams for evidence collection, construction of primary data, and comparative experiments.
It is recommended that the authorship be ordered by contribution of each of the individuals listed as authors, especially in the design and planning of the research project, in obtaining or analyzing and interpreting data, and writing. Authors must declare the actual contributions of each author, filling the letter to the editor, at the beginning of the submission, taking responsibility for the information given.
Authors are allowed to change throughout the evaluation process and prior to the publication of the manuscript. The Authors should indicate the composition and final order of authorship in the document signed by all those involved when accepted for publication. If the composition and authoring order is different than previously reported in the system, all previously listed authors should be in agreement.
In the case of identification of authorship without merit or contribution (ghost, guest or gift authorship), the RCO follows the procedure recommended by COPE.
