TY - JOUR T1 - A Direct Costing System for the Street Food Segment AU - Pigatto, Gessuir AU - Machado, Joao Guilherme DE Camargo Ferraz AU - Queiroz, Timoteo Ramos AU - Nishimura, Julian Roberto AU - Santos, Andrei Golfeto Dos JO - International Business Management VL - 10 IS - 3 SP - 218 EP - 227 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2016.218.227 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.218.227 KW - Street food KW -direct costing KW -competitiveness KW -costing system KW -entrepreneurs AB - Current research develops a system of direct costing for the street food segment, especially for street food vendors by identifying costs for a better management of working capital and competitiveness in business. Current exploratory and descriptive research identifies the main factors used in street food and proposes a simplified model for costs from the entrepreneurs’ point of view. Methodology comprised two procedures. The first procedure involved five entrepreneurs to fill the worksheet by a transversal collection; the second procedure comprised an entrepreneur from Tupa SP Brazil who longitudinally filled the cost sheet for 4 weeks. ER -