There is a worldwide tendency aiming to standardise accounting procedures in order to make bigger companies, investors and capital market interaction possible in the entire world according to the globalisation phenomenon. For that, the harmonisation of Accounting Standards, as well as the study of which Statements are really important for the process of disclosure will be necessary. One of these tendencies is the substitution of the Statement of Changes in Financial Position by the Statement of Cash Flows. This substitution, as a rule, is due to the difficulty that some groups of users have to understand that statement. In Brazil, there's already a pre-project of law in course at the National Congress, which proposes the substitution of Statement of Changes in Financial Position by Statement of Cash Flows from the revision of the law n. 6 404/74 - the Incorporated Company Law. In this way, this study aims to verify the contributions that the elaboration and spreading of the Statement of Cash Flows may bring to accounting disclosure.
Accountancy; cash flows; disclosure
