Implantação de controles financeiros em pequenas e médias empresas usando a abordagem intervencionista

Abstract

Through an interventionist approach, this research modifies the reality of three SMEs, specifically in the management aspect. SMEs, as the vast literature suggests worldwide, have some difficulties in surviving, as one of the main causes the management and financing control. The researcher mediated in the reality of three companies associated to SINAFER, Iron Crafts, Metals and Tools Companies Union in São Paulo State, mainly the cash flow, not only in its operational aspect, as well the management view, as to the itemized ordination, separating the operational generation of investments and financial events, as well the prospective aspect, developing cash flow projections. It was exploited a working capital tool, facing to a comparison of EBITDA with a cash operational generation and variation analysis. The used methodology considered an initial phase which consisted in training sections and later field intervention sections. The main output results showed an increase of the financial controls of the researched companies, generating knowledge which allowed them to have more adequate information to take decision, disclosing to the researchers the adherence of the theme for this company profile, something that may be replied in a major scale. The results also showed that the problems of the research, despite planned, emerge from the field as a result of the interaction among the researches and the managers of the studied companies, which is a characteristic that differ from the consultant reports, where the issues are previously defined by the company managers.