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

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.