The objective of this article si to summarize the result of the research about the accounting treatment which is applied to the intellectual capital, through the management viewpoint, in companies with a market value superior than the accounting value. In order to reach this intention, the article is substantiated on a research carried out in two open capital companies, in SC, which have a market value, considered the action value superior than its accounting value. It was observed that, although the researched companies have all the characteristics of the organizations that aim to the technological knowledge and domain, the accounting treatment of the intellectual capital is still something too incipient and that the criteria used to measure, register and show up the human capital, structural capital and customer capital referred information with view to the management process, is something that still needs a systematization, so that it is possible to reflect, throughout the accounting demonstrations, some position on this sense. It was concluded that the researched companies, even without the systematized information about the initiative of the intelectual capital mensuration, are conscious about this importance. However, the intellectual capital systematized information must be part of the generated reports for the decion takings, so that the managers of these undertakings can effectively use them as a competitive differential in the management process.
accounting treatment; intellectual capital; management process
