Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:33:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eloisa_Barbosa_Siqueira.pdf: 3847207 bytes, checksum: 2c51e224cdf6d6b3ff12d1f059562669 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-25 / This research analyzed the internal accounting controls of a Brazilian chemical industry, and the changes after the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley law. It is a descriptive, qualitative research and unique case study application. The research intented to understand: \"In what extent the Sarbanes-Oxley law has affected the internal accounting controls of the researched company?\". Therefore, the data collection was divided in two steps: the first, presented in the Sox Project database information, and the second described in interviews with the company employees. The interview was based in a script composed of 20 questions, divided in three dimensions / constructs: analysis of the interviewees opinion of the internal control area, before the implementation of Sox; verification of the contributions that Sox brought to the internal controls of the organization, and the identification of significant changes after the implementation of the law. The technique used to extract the data from communications was the content analysis. Moreover, after the data analysis, the conclusion was that before implementing Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the company did not have a structure of internal controls, the processes were not standardized and the organization did not have an effective record of important decisions. In 2014, with the advent of Sox, the control culture underwent a positive change, the proceedings were standardized, the employees were trained in Sox concepts, decisions were recorded in minutes, and an area of internal controls was created. Sox allowed the company to have a different vision of the market, and, in the beginning of 2015, the company received a purchase proposal / A presente pesquisa analisou os controles internos cont??beis de uma ind??stria qu??mica brasileira e as mudan??as ap??s a implanta????o da lei Sarbanes-Oxley. ?? uma pesquisa descritiva, qualitativa e de aplica????o de estudo de caso ??nico. O problema de pesquisa buscou entender: Em que medida a lei Sarbanes-Oxley afetou os controles internos cont??beis da empresa objeto da pesquisa? Nesse sentido, o levantamento dos dados foi dividido em duas etapas: a primeira, presente nas informa????es do banco de dados da empresa, e a segunda, descrita nas entrevistas com os colaboradores. Nas entrevistas, foi utilizado um roteiro composto por 20 perguntas, divididas em tr??s dimens??es/constructos: analisar a vis??o dos entrevistados perante a ??rea de controles internos antes da implanta????o da Sox; verificar as contribui????es que a Sox trouxe para os controles internos da organiza????o; identificar as mudan??as significativas ap??s sua implanta????o. A t??cnica utilizada para extrair os dados das comunica????es foi a an??lise de conte??do. Ap??s as an??lises dos dados, foi constatado que, antes de implantar a lei Sarbanes-Oxley, a empresa n??o apresentava uma estrutura de controles internos, os processos n??o eram padronizados e n??o havia um registro efetivo de decis??es importantes. Em 2014, com a chegada da Sox, a cultura de controle passou por uma mudan??a positiva, os processos foram padronizados, os colaboradores receberam treinamento sobre a Sox, as decis??es foram registradas em atas e foi criada uma ??rea de controles internos. A Sox permitiu que a empresa tivesse uma vis??o diferenciada do mercado, o que contribuiu para que no in??cio de 2015, a empresa recebesse uma proposta de compra