Factores determinantes del grado de información medioambiental divulgada en las grandes empresas que operan en Portugal: un análisis univariante

El presente trabajo tiene un doble objetivo: por un lado, analizar el grado en que una muestra de grandes empresas que operan en Portugal divulgan información medioambiental en sus informes anuales y su evolución durante el período 2002-2004 y, por otro, identificar los factores que influyen en dicho grado de divulgación, a través de un análisis univariante. A partir del análisis de contenido de los informes anuales, se elaboró un Índice de Divulgación Medioambiental (IDMA). Los resultados obtenidos indican que, si bien el valor medio del IDMA es relativamente bajo, éste ha evolucionado positivamente durante el período analizado. El análisis univariante ha permitido identificar la existencia de una asociación significativa entre el IDMA y las variables tamaño, cotización en bolsa, posesión de certificación medioambiental y pertenencia a un sector considerado “crítico”.

Divulgação de informação sobre os ativos intangíveis: evidência empírica nos bancos em Portugal no período 2001-2009.

The main objectives of this investigation is to analyze the disclosure of information about intangible assets during a period of nine years, namely the extension or level, as well as their evolution and possible alterations verified upon them, that derived from the adoption in 2005, of the international norm in order to elaborate the consolidated accounts of banks. Through the verification of the disclosure of intangible assets. Taking into account items from International Accounting Standard (IAS) 38 from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the consolidated financial statements from seventeen banks, presenting consolidated accounts in Portugal uninterruptable between 2001 and 2009 were analyzed. The results obtained through the construction of an index, elaborated from this effected, reveled an average of disclosure of information on intangibles of 0.24 during the period. The level of general disclosure evolved from an average of 0.1940 in 2001 to 0.2778 in the year 2009. The intangibles generated internally had an average of disclosure of 0.1592 and the intangibles acquired had an average value of 0.2927. A growth in the extension of disclosure of intangibles upon the consolidated financial statement of banks during period analyzed, being this growth more accentuated in 2005 and 2006, which correspond to the first years of adoption in Portugal of international norm endorsed by the European Union through the Regalement 1606/2002, of July 19, the designed IASB-UE norms.