Aplicabilidade da auditoria para evidenciar práticas de sustentabilidade nos relatórios de gestão das cooperativas agroindustriais do oeste do Paraná

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how the auditing procedure applicability contributes for the sustainability practices disclosure from the annual management plan of the agrobusiness’ cooperatives which are affiliated to Frimesa’s center, from 2011 to 2015. On defining the terms the following categories were approached: Annual Management Reports; Economic Area; Environmental Area; Social Area and Auditing System. The paper, which presents qualitative approach, is described as documental, bibliographic, investigatory and explanatory. The disclosure theory was taken as a standard concerning the sustainability disclosure report theory, once that its importance is related to its theoretical, empirical and social contributions. The Atlas.ti software was used for the thematic content analysis, through which we could explore the data reports management from 2011 to 2015, which are available in the official cooperative website. With the software we could also present, on a data diagram, the relation between the sustainability practices from the management reports, and the strategy mentioned in the cooperatives executive management messages background. In order to fulfill our goal we made a description of the aspects that are part of the annual cooperatives management report structure; we also made a rating, out of the indicators disclosure levels, regarding the presentation of the required information in the Global Reporting Initiative 4 – GRI4; and an evaluation of the main activities report considering the GRI application levels as an audit approach. The results revealed that all of the associated cooperatives in the analysis presented a higher disclosure level in the report concerning the economic area, mainly C. Vale, that had a Total Disclosure Degree – 66,66% of TDD. This result shows, in this area, that this cooperative includes satisfactory information to sponsor the stakeholders’ decision making. As for the social and environmental areas, the obtained results, through the indicators verification, shows us that the contextualized and passed on aspects and the release in these areas need to be improved, because the greater the amount of disclosure information the greater the TDD results. Therefore, there is information preponderance deemed as positive because the cooperatives emphasize the positives facts and events occured.