ABSTRACT
The objective of this research was to assess of the contingency reflexes of Brazilian Central Government on the management of the Management Units - MU. The representation model assumed that the reflexes take place under the form of shortcuts adopted by managers in order to make budget execution feasible. This is a descriptive research of a qualitative nature, which was performed by gathering, handling, and interpreting data from court proceedings in the Federal Audit Court - TCU on the annual account audits of the UGs in Direct Government Bodies, Autonomous Institutions, and Foundations located in the State of São Paulo. Data analysis was based on a content analyzing procedure that involved selecting documents, listing assumptions and measuring indicators, as well as employing the Chi-square test for a statistical assessment of the research assumptions. The results have shown that there is a variety of creative actions and that it is possible to identify them according to the management area, there is also a diversified incidence of such creative actions among management areas, affecting indiscriminately the following areas: budgeting, finance, assets and property, personnel, provision of goods and services, and operations.
Key words:
Public finance; Action of rendering of accounts; Fiscal responsibility; Budget; Executions (Law); Tribunal de Contas da União