Analysis on Budget Practice of Agricultural and Cattle-Breeding Cooperatives in Santa Catarina, Brazil

  • Vânia Maria Pereira Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
  • Maurício Vasconcellos Leão Lyrio Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
  • Rogério João Lunkes Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
  • Darci Schnorrenberger Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
Keywords: Agricultural and Cattle-breeding Cooperatives, Budget Practices, Budget Process

Abstract

Current paper analyzes budget practices by cooperatives associated to the Agricultural and Cattle-breeding Cooperative Federation of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The descriptive research applies a questionnaire prepared from the main characteristics found in the literature on the stages of the budget process. The questionnaire was sent to 12 cooperatives and a 67% response sample was received, filled and analyzed as previously established. Results show that the cooperatives´administrators underscore planning and alignment of their organization´s efforts. Most perform and apply strategic planning and translate it in numbers by budget process in one of the different stages possible.

Author Biographies

Maurício Vasconcellos Leão Lyrio, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
Doutorando em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brasil
Rogério João Lunkes, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (UFSC); Docente Associado I da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (UFSC), Brasil
Darci Schnorrenberger, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
Doutor em Engenharia de Produção pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (UFSC); Docente de graduação e pós-graduação na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, (UFSC), Brasil
Published
2015-04-15
Section
Agrobusiness