Accounting in Brazil

This work sought to address aspects of the evolution of accounting, accounting professionals, accounting courses and scientific production dealing with accounting education in Brazil, from 1980 to 2001. Within a historical framework, important events that took place over time were outlined, from a critical and reflective perspective. In the study of Accounting, the focus was on its origins and evolution; on its manifestation as a science; on the theoretical currents that have been built up over time; on the important milestones that have occurred in its practical applicability around the world and for its development in Brazil. This journey of facts, which have come to fruition, has created, within the perspective of rebirth with each impulse of these movements verified in the development of the importance of this science for the business world, a condition of extreme relevance for the sedimentation of the characteristics of the Accounting professional.