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<journal-title><![CDATA[Tékhne - Revista de Estudos Politécnicos]]></journal-title>
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<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Necessidade e dificuldades em valorizar o capital humano]]></article-title>
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<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[This paper discusses human capital and/or its investments as an asset to be recognized in the balance sheet, like it has been proposed by Human Capital Accounting. I start by presenting the implications of the current accounting treatment of this resource in the context of accounting information relevance. Then and beyond presenting the current accounting treatment, I present arguments in favour, coming from human resources management and empirical evidence collected that show the relevance of this resource in firm’s performance and its information in the process of making decision by the users of financial statements. Several attempts to account human capital are also presented, as the criticism it involved, as well future research on this field study.]]></p></abstract>
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</front><body><![CDATA[ <p align="center"><b>Necessidade e dificuldades em valorizar o capital humano    </b></p>     <p align="center">Filomena Antunes Br&aacute;s<a name="top1"></a><a href="#1">*</a></p>     <p align="center"> <a href="mailto:filomena@eeg.uminho.pt">filomena@eeg.uminho.pt</a>  </p>     <p align="center">&nbsp; </p>     <p><b>Resumo</b>: Este artigo discute a possibilidade do capital humano    e/ou dos investimentos em capital humano satisfazerem a defini&ccedil;&atilde;o    de activo e, por isso, serem reconhecidos no balan&ccedil;o, tal como tem sido    proposto pela contabilidade do capital humano. Esta discuss&atilde;o passa por    apresentar as implica&ccedil;&otilde;es que o tratamento contabil&iacute;stico    actual do capital humano representa na relev&acirc;ncia da informa&ccedil;&atilde;o    contabil&iacute;stica. Para al&eacute;m do tratamento contabil&iacute;stico    actual, s&atilde;o apresentados os argumentos contra o reconhecimento do capital    humano ou dos seus investimentos como um activo. Simultaneamente, s&atilde;o    apresentados os argumentos a favor, posi&ccedil;&atilde;o assumida pelos autores    de gest&atilde;o de recursos humanos e pela evid&ecirc;ncia emp&iacute;rica    acumulada que aponta n&atilde;o s&oacute; para a import&acirc;ncia deste recurso    como factor determinante no desempenho das organiza&ccedil;&otilde;es, como    tamb&eacute;m a relev&acirc;ncia da informa&ccedil;&atilde;o acerca do capital    humano no processo de tomada de decis&atilde;o dos utilizadores das demonstra&ccedil;&otilde;es    financeiras. Apresentamos, igualmente, uma s&iacute;ntese das tentativas realizadas    no sentido de contabilizar e medir o valor deste capital, as cr&iacute;ticas    apontadas &agrave; contabilidade do capital humano, bem como futuras direc&ccedil;&otilde;es    de evolu&ccedil;&atilde;o deste campo de estudo. </p>     <p><b>Palavras-chave</b>: capital humano, intang&iacute;vel, gest&atilde;o    de recursos humanos, contabilidade, demonstra&ccedil;&otilde;es financeiras</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     <p><b>Abstract</b>: This paper discusses human capital and/or its investments    as an asset to be recognized in the balance sheet, like it has been proposed    by Human Capital Accounting. I start by presenting the implications of the current    accounting treatment of this resource in the context of accounting information    relevance. Then and beyond presenting the current accounting treatment, I present    arguments in favour, coming from human resources management and empirical evidence    collected that show the relevance of this resource in firm&#8217;s performance    and its information in the process of making decision by the users of financial    statements. Several attempts to account human capital are also presented, as    the criticism it involved, as well future research on this field study. </p>     <p><b>Keywords</b>: human capital, intangibles, human resource management,    accounting, financial statements.</p>     <p>&nbsp;</p>     ]]></body>
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<body><![CDATA[<p align="right">(Recebido em 5 de Janeiro de 2007; Aceite em 11 de Junho de 2007)  </p>      ]]></body><back>
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