5 CONCLUSIONS
The findings indicated structural breaks statistically significant in the temporal behavior
of the long-term Debt ratio (represented by the ratio between debt and net equity), with
predominance in order to increase the leverage situation, leading to not rejecting the
hypothesis established.
We do not investigate, through the hypothesis put forth, whether the change in the
accounting standard in an economy changes the accounting representation of corporate debt,
debt in itself, and so it is that we controlled the tests with macroeconomic variables, with the
premise that the decision to borrow is associated with such conditions. Thus, it is worth
mentioning the accounting’s informational influence when adopting a particular way of
reporting economic events in the company.