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The study seeks to find an answer to how to evaluate objectively the quality of management of an enterprise and, by extension, of its managers. The answer involves the evaluation of the financial performance of the companies surveyed. In order to verify the effects of the financial crisis on IT industry performance at 2008, about IT industry performance, it used data from two different periods, 2007 and 2009. The data obtained from factor analysis show that the financial performance of brazilian companies working in the IT industry it is explained by variables associated with operating results, in both periods considered (Before and after the 2008 crisis). The variables related to capital structure assumes greater relevance in the period after to 2008, just right which is a calculated factor attributable to them. It is therefore possible to note that the financial crisis of 2008 produced no significant changes on composition of the financial performance in IT companies, although the most relevant equity structure proves debt (representative measure of capital structure) a differential performance for companies evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]