Accountability: an analysis of public governance practices at a federal university

With the advent of the New Public Management movement, which promoted changes in the management models adopted in public organizations in Brazil, the constitutional principles of accountability, end up gaining relevance within Higher Education Institutions. Thus, this work aims to verify how a higher education institution promotes the constitutional principle of accountability, within the scope of transparency. For this purpose, documental analysis of the Annual Management Report of a Federal Public University, the locus of the research, and the Biannual Report of Internal Affairs, were used as data collection techniques, associated with the interview with the managers responsible for the elaboration of the referred documents. The main results identified deficiencies related to the absence of graphs and tables that demonstrate the historical evolution of indicators, lack of access links to guiding norms, lack of demonstration of the influence of risk, management and regulator indicators on superior decisions and objectives of the body, thus weakening the fulfillment by a Higher Education Institution of the constitutional principle of public administration, especially accountability.