Liliane Cristina Segura

Disclosure of tax incentives and the corporate liabilities in Brazilian public companies: a quantitative study

This article aims to evaluate the effect of tax incentives on the liability level of firms listed in Brazilian Stock Exchange. Obtaining the tax incentives require many investments from the company. This paper contributes with the literature to identify if the companies that disclosed their fiscal incentives have any changes in their debt, because of these investments. The final sample was 382 firms, for the years 2010-2013, and with a total of 1,528 observations. We used a regression model for the panel data in order to estimate the relation between liabilities and the fiscal incentives. The results show that encouraged firms have higher long-term debt and total debt than those who are not encouraged. In addition, the authors found a positive relationship between the assets of these companies and the tax incentive.

Assessing accounting for citizenship: an empirical analysis of the corporate control and capital structure decisions

The accounting for citizenship pursues the citizen’s best interest to protect their future financial well-being, in order to adjust the corporation control pressure through capital structure decisions that aim to promote sustainable practices and to improve the corporate governance. Studies of corporate governance identify that lenders now consider the cost of capital and the influence of the concentration of capital in the financial decisions. This article presents a synopsis of corporate control based on several authors and determinants of capital structure. The empirical part develops a longitudinal exploratory analysis from 356 corporations included from 2004 to 2009. The dependent variable used is debt (long-term, short-term, financial and total debt) and the independent variables are concentrated control and significant influence. Several control variables are used to avoid bias in the analysis. The results show that corporate control could change, in convergence and divergence, the capital structur...