Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administracao do Porto

The Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administracao do Porto (ISCAP) is the Superior Institute of Accountancy and Administration of Oporto which results from the Act n.º 327/76, of 6 of May.

The beginnings

In 1891, the technical reforms of John Franco couldn't change the industrial and commercial sections of this Institute, not being able to turn them into independent schools. In 1891, the reforms of technical teaching of John Franco maintained unchangeable the industrial sections and commercial of this Institute, them not turning into independent schools.

The Industrial and Commercial Institute of Porto had a troubled journey; the lack of definitive guidance until 1918, date of publication of Decree No. 5029 of December 1, which separated its commercial side, deploying it in a Commercial Office of Porto and an Institute of Economics of Porto. At this time gives the first time the separation of the Institutes in relation to Commercial Industrial Institutes, a situation that persisted until 1924. This segmentation is however temporary, for quickly merging of these new areas of knowledge and in 1933 only to opt for a final segmentation. Then nicknamed the Commercial Institute of Porto is known then for having the highest level of market studies of northern capital and also for being an institution of technical education with the ambience of higher education in various aspects of the academic life.

ISCAP and the troubled road

In this new context, the progress of the country required the performance of senior staff, which in time became a scarce. So, the ISCAP, it is recognized like one of the schools that, along the centuries, formed generations of professionals and is inserted in the establishments of superior teaching. This legislation is a precursor of that what is going to integrate, later, the Commercial Institutes in the net of superior teaching - the Act n.º 327/76, of 6 of May. It is so that there is born the current designation of Superior Institutes of Accountancy and Administration, with the statute of “colleges endowed of legal personality and administrative and pedagogic autonomy”, enabled checking “the degrees of bachelor's degree, degree course and post-graduation course”. The Institute survives, however, a troubled period, after the date of 1976, owing to the existent vagueness in the Country. This context of vagueness only finished with the identification of the Schools / Superior Institutes that were resulting from the reconversion or evolution of previous Schools and with the integration of the Superior Institute of Accountancy and Administration of Oporto in the Polytechnic Institute of Oporto in 1988, through the Act n. º 70/88 of 3 of March. From the academic year of 1993/94, it adopts the designation of Superior Studies of Commerce, succeeding this one to that of Customs Degree course.

The Course of Bachelor's degree of Marketing is inaugurated in the academic year of 1996/97 to allow the “filling out of a gap, since his objective of study tries to abolish a lack aggravated by the necessities of superior technicians in the area of the services face to the competitiveness of the enterprises, fundamentally in result of the integration of Portugal in the European Union”. The Entrance hall n.º 751/86, of 17 of December, created also the Courses of Superior Specialized Studies (CESE's) - Auditing, Financial Control Worked as a secretary of Management and Administration and Customs Techniques, which were checking also the degree of Degree course, since they formed a coherent set with a course of preceding Bachelor's degree. In 1991, the CESE is created in Accountancy and Administration followed from Specialized Translation, last East in 1995.

In the end of the academic year of 1997/98, the ISCAP was placing in the labor market pupils enabled with the CESE " s in Auditing, Financial Management, Accountancy and Business administration, Advisory body of Management, International Commerce (branches International Management and Customs Administration) and Specialized Translation. Owing to the reformulation carried out the ISCAP it starts to teach, from 1998, the Degree courses of Accountancy and Administration (branches Accountancy and Administration, Financial Management and Auditing), International Commerce, Languages and Worked as a secretary (Worked as a secretary branch of Management and Specialized Translation) and Marketing.

In the academic year of 2005/2006 also the course of Languages and Secretariat was adapted to the Agreement of Bologna, adopting the designation of “Advisory body and Translation” and starting, so, to have the duration of only 6 semesters. The functioning of three Master's degrees was still proposed: Translation Assisted by Computer (scientific area of languages and foreign literatures);Specialized Translation and Interpretation (scientific area of languages and foreign literatures) and Advisory body of Administration (area of scientific one of business sciences). In the academic year of 2007/2008 entered in function the courses of Accountancy and Administration, International Commerce and Marketing appropriate to the Agreement of Bologna. These degree courses started to have 6 semesters. The respective ones were still proposed