PRESENTATION

Accreditation

Custos e @gronegócio on line is ranked at QUALIS, CAPES's Journals accreditation System into four fields of knowledge, witch are:

Management, Accounting and Tourism - B 4 rank;

Engineering III - B 5 rank;

Interdisciplinar - B 4 rank;

Urban and Regional Planning/Demography - B 4 rank.

Editorial Management

The editorial management of Custos e @gronegócio on line is bases on a functional perspective fitted to its academic specificity through both open and shared process composed by an Editorial Board, an General Editor, an Executive Editor and Reviewers.

The Editorial Board (Editorial Politics Board) is composed by members of the academic comunity, with a mulltiinstitutional profile both democratic and representative of its field. Its duty is to stablish, as weel as reformulate, the editorial directives of the periodic whenever is necessary.

The General Editor position is placed by an researcher of UFRPE that owns relevant intelectual background in the field. It is up the the General Editor to represent the UFRPE into the Editorial Board, coordinate the editorial process (since the reception of the originals, derk review, alocate the articles for evaluation to the comunication of the evaluation results), look up to the academic credibility of the periodic, assure the highest ethical standards for editorial management, maintain the mail updated and present reports to UFRPE regarding to the evaluation of the periodic obtained from CAPES' QUALIS System.

The spot of Executive Editor is occupied by the Director of the Management Department of UFRPE. It is up to the Executive Editor to perform the institutional management of the periodic in all instances.

The Reviewers are researchers that represent the academic field from public and private institutions located all over Brazil. It is up tho the Reviewers to evaluate the articles submitted as weel as to elaborate constructive analysis as fast as possible.

Good Practices of Editorial Governance

Custos e @gronegócio on line is located into the context of Good Practices of Scientific Publicatios sponsored by Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Administração (ANPAD) by assuming that the editorial process is a relevant service for teachers, researches, students as well as to professionals of the fieldwith the aim to enable acess to knowledge.

May be pointed out its solid institutional background, its Fast Desk Review (up to thirty days), the shared editorial process (Editorial Board and Reviewers composed mainly by researchers from outside of UFRPE), the impossibility of submission of any article that has the General Editor as author (or co-author) and the full independence of the evaluation process of the articles submited throug double blind review.

Another relevant aspect is the origin of the authors. Ever since its begin, almost all articles published in Custos e @gronegócio on line are from authors distributed among all regions of Brazil.


Index

This journal is registered in the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) according to international standards by the ISSN 1808-2882 and it is indexed into the following directory:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Besides, it is also available through the catalog of the following institutions:

LIvRe - Index website for free access journals;

CAPES Journals Gate;

QUALIS System of CAPES.

 

Mission

Free and wide divulgation of scientific articles witch contribute to the growth of knowledge related to issues of the agribusiness context through several perspectives of research and appliance inherent to costs accounting that pursues current and relevant interest.


Public

Teachers, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals from related fields of knowledge that have some interest or has any academic perspective among the interface between cost accounting and agribusiness.



Editorial Policy

The editorial directive of this electronic journal emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach of the insertion of cost accounting in the context of agribusiness as a field of knowledge through the divulgation of results from theoretical and empirical investigations, essays, as well as articles related to thesis and dissertations presented in Brazilian or foreign graduate programs.


Periodicity

Until the year of 2007, the issues of Custos e @gronegócio on line were delivered by semester. From 2008 on, it's issues became to be delivered quarterly.



Circulation


The access to the articles published in this electronic journal will be free through the internet.