The article examines the main trends in foreign direct
investment (FDI) in the Russian Federation and the
Republic of Tatarstan, as well as it analyzes the
structure and the dynamics of the inflow of foreign
direct investment in Russia and the Republic of
Tatarstan. The emergence of new investment projects
and the increase in production volume are due to
receiving investments in the country and in the region.
Unfortunately, there are still problems in the way of
receipt of investments in the Russian economy and its
subjects, which are formulated in the article and that
require solutions. On an example of the economy of
the Republic of Tatarstan we have analyzed an inflow
of foreign direct investments for 2010 – 2013, as well
as the dynamics, sectoral and geographical structure of
income from investments. We consider the strategy of
attracting foreign investors to the region on the
example of the Republic of Tatarstan. The article
proposes key measures aimed at improving the
investment climate, improving the competitiveness of
industries. All these activities will positively
contribute to the inflow of foreign investments into the
economy of the country and its regions. Foreign direct
investment can serve as a mechanism for increasing
Russia's competitiveness in the global economy, and
help to integrate into the international economic
system more active
The features of the process of functioning, development
and regulation of agricultural growth of small
agrarian farming forms (SAFF) with the participation
of the state are discussed. It is noted that systematization
of features of small agricultural farms plays a
big role in the increasing of economic efficiency and
state regulation. It is said that in certain circumstances,
the same features can have both positive and negative,
problematic impact, so the authors conducted
their separate classification. They consider a great
influence of SAFF on local development, rural employment,
tax and social preferences, opportunities
of cooperation, low costs and risks to create new
jobs, informal management, combining the functions
of manager and owner in one person, a high sensitivity
to government regulation, protection of the population
from the local monopoly of employers, selfdevelopment,
responsibility, self-defense from external
factors, and others to be positive. But SAFF
work in the environment of perfect competition in
the absence of market power, low, often only declared
security, an underdeveloped industrial infrastructure
of small farms, a high probability of unauthorized
interference from shadow entities, supervisory
bodies, local bureaucracy, institutional limitations
in the access to information, counseling material
and financial resources, low mobility, small size of
economy, high dependence on local conditions, capacity
of local raw material and consumer market,
limited distribution channels, permanent market volatility,
distrust of the practice of production and consumer
cooperatives, the scarcity of capital, problematic
accessibility to financial instruments, the high
cost of credit, low legitimacy, the credibility of the
decisions of the local bureaucracy is considered to be negative
It is said, that small agrarian economy takes an important
place in the market economy, creates new
jobs, new sources of income in excessing labor resources
of the rural sector .The transformational
stages of small business development, motivation of
starting up cooperation, conditions of formation of
mixed economy is discussed. The development of
diverse economic forms is considered here. The main
ones are: small agricultural farms with low technical
and energy equipment of labor, low level of mechanization
and high level of manual labor. Small agricultural
businesses were developed in the provision
of production services in agriculture; the production
of small agricultural forms of management that are
embedded in a complex system of relations between
technological specialization with medium and large
businesses; small farms, which are independently or
in cooperation aimed at commercial implementation,
development and realization of innovations. It is
shown that today's best practices in support of small
business implement a number of avenues to reduce
tax contributions to the pension funds of entities that
use high technology; the use of tax holidays on property;
the abolition of tax on profits of small industries,
obtained through the sale of paper funds and
other assets; the extension of preferential privatization
rented small industries of real estate, with exemption
from payment of tax on value added; the
provision of annual financial aid packages to small
businesses; the transfer to the budgets of the municipalities
collected payment for the sale of patents
from small entrepreneurial activity and other areas of
support. The necessity of improving the economic
instruments, replacement of the existing inefficient structure of domestic small entities, a greater motivation
in creating new jobs, raising the living level of
participants of subjects of small forms of managing
An algorithm of phase analysis as the instrument of
nonlinear dynamics' methods used to study cyclic recurrence
of time series is viewed in current article. The
existing classical econometric methods for estimating
cyclic recurrence developed for random systems which
dynamics matches to the normal distribution. However,
there also exists non-random systems characterized
by trends, periodic and non-periodic cycles called quasicycles.
An example of computing process of identifying
quasicycles is illustrated on time series of all
grain yields in Russia for the last 119 years. Phase
portrait of this time series is illustrated in twodimension
space. As a result, the phase portrait consists
of 22 frequently unstable quasicycles which tottality
forms a strange attractor. Quasicycles have quantitative
(length) and quality (configuration) characteristics.
Their combination defines very important characteristic
called trend-stability. Phase analysis is a powerful
form of analysis of time series to assess cyclic
recurrence and is a tool for pre-forecasting analysis.
Fuzzy sets' mathematical apparatus is also used in this
article. An algorithm of formation of fuzzy sets' quasicycles'
length is also presented here. Quasicycles' statistics
are presented in tables, geometric patterns and in
the form of fuzzy sets
The article reveals the basic concepts, purpose and
classification of HRM systems used to manage the
organization's staff. The analysis of the international
and Russian market of HRM-systems and selected
alternatives (seven information systems) of this class
focused on the Russian practice of large and mediumsized
businesses has been performed. The process of
implementing an information system involves
selecting the system that best suited to the needs of the
business. For this purpose, there were developed
evaluation criteria of information systems and their
importance for the company. This stage of research
was conducted through a survey of experts from
among the University staff and practitioners. As a
result, we have obtained the matrix of evaluations of
alternative information systems of HRM and selected
class "1C: Salary and personnel management 8".
Research demos of the selected HRM system allowed
developing a functional model, presented in the form
of complex diagrams of cases of modeling language
UML 2.0. The developed diagrams clearly reflect the
allocated subsystems and their functions, as well as the
relationship between the actors of the process and
system functions. Summarizing the experience of
implementing similar systems, we composed a smartchart
showing the main stages of its implementation.
The results have practical value and can be used by
companies of the considered business segment as
specific recommendations
The article examines the factors, which influence the
formation of the market of poultry production. Agricultrual
producers have developed diversified business
channels, which depend on the nature of the
economic interests of the owners of farms, local
market conjuncture, the level of development of its
own product processing and logistics structures. The
growing share of imports has created a tangible
threat to food security and the increasing dependence
of megalopolises and big cities on import, in
addition long-term relationaships have been destroyed
within the existing socialist system, increased
prices disparity. Only at the beginning of the
21st century Russian poultry industry started to get
rid of the consequences of liberal market reforms. In
many ways, the development of industry were contributed
by the realization of the priority national
project «Development of agriculture» and by the
State program of development of agriculture and
regulation of markets for agricultural products, raw
materials and food for 2008-2012. However, the
modernization of poultry subcomplex was mainly
catching and accompanied by increasing dependence
on imports cross, equipment, premixes and feed.
Poultry organizations have high debt on loans, subsidies
for reimbursement of the cost of interest com
unevenly, putting poultry farms in a disastrous situation.
In 2014, Russia has 21 region – poultry donor
(where the volume of domestic production exceeds
consumption) and 61 recipient regions (where the
volume of domestic production is less than consumption)
The article presents the methods of specialists’ distribution
for a consulting company between its projects in
accordance with the methodology of dynamic programming
for expected profit maximization.
For its implementation, a mathematical model is being
formed with nonlinear objective function and linear
restrictions. The non-linearity of the objective function
is due to the specifics of consulting companies and
their size. The model includes probability parameters
determined by expert evaluations method based on previous
experience of the company in the analogical
works and describing successful implementation of
each project in its portfolio. Then the parameter and
function of the state, satisfying recurrence are considered
and linear replacement is performed to reserve a
minimum number of experts on each job. The article
gives a hypothetical example of a consulting company,
including in its portfolio five projects with the mentioned
profits in case of their success. On its basis, the
developed method is implemented as a 5-step procedure
of modeling of unknown parameters. Economic
impact of the methods’ application is estimated . The
developed model and method can be used by specialists
in consulting companies, as well as in service industries
This article is an attempt to improve the work on the
organization of the audit of the effectiveness of the
internal control of business processes of economic
agents of the market, has been successfully tested in
practice, internal audit of a number of agricultural
holdings of the Krasnodar region. The results of these
internal audits, organized in accordance with the
procedure provided, can provide substantial assistance
in the construction management personnel of the
sound system of internal control
In the article we have given a critical assessment of
credit scoring by American economist D. Duran, we
have grounded the developing of his method for the
domestic economic conditions. The unacceptability of
D. Duran’s method for the analysis of financial
condition of domestic economic entities is explained
by the following reasons: 1) the imperfection of the
hierarchy of indicators of credit scoring, and 2) the
imperfection of differentiation of scoring for the actual
value of the indicators, forming the credit scoring by
groups of firms. In the methodology of D. Duran the
main indicator is a level of credit scoring profitability
of total assets - for the first class of firms, that are the
most financially stable, the authors have given a rating
of "50 points" for the actual value of the profitability
of 30%; the second most important indicator by the
author’s choice is the ratio of current liquidity - for the
actual value of the coefficient "of 2.0 and higher," are
given 30 points to a first-class firms; the third indicator
of the financial condition of firms author has defined
as the ratio of the financial independence - for the first
group of firms the actual value of the coefficient "of
0.7 and higher," are assessed 20 points. In the fifth, the
last group of firms, numerical score is 0 (for the actual
return on total assets "of less than 1%", as the value of
the current liquidity ratio "of 1.0 or less," for the
coefficient of financial independence "less than 0.2").
For assessment of the financial condition of the
domestic agricultural producers, a priority in the
hierarchy of indicators, in our opinion, has the ratio of
financial independence, which is formed mainly by
retained earnings. Our researches have shown that the
numerical score of the coefficient value "of 0.8 and above" should be 50 points. The second most
important in the assessment of the financial condition
of the organization, in our opinion, is the profitability
of total assets; its actual value "of 5% and above"
should correspond to score 30 points. The third in the
system of indicators, characterizing the financial
condition, is the ratio of current liquidity of the assets.
Its actual value "of 3.2 and above" should be evaluated
in 20 points for the agricultural organizations of the
first, most financially stable, group
The system of indicators characterizing the financial
condition of a commercial organization, the major
thing is profitability of its operations as the ratio of
profit on sales and revenues, the ratio of profit before
tax and the average annual value of total assets, the
ratio of net profit and the average value of all assets,
net income and average equity. Great practical
importance for the efficient management of resources
economic entity is marginal analysis, but it requires, in
our opinion, improvement. In the academic literature
on management analysis it is recommended to
determine the relative value of the stock of financial
strength ratio of the absolute value of the stock of
financial strength and actual revenue; financial
headroom suggested determined by the difference
between the actual value of revenue and earnings, the
corresponding break-even point. The relative value of
the stock of financial strength should be determined, in
our opinion, the ratio of the absolute value of the stock
of financial strength and the amount of revenue in the
break-even point. Recommended in textbooks relative
value of the stock of financial strength is a share of
stock of financial strength in the actual revenue. The
method of rating the financial condition of commercial
organizations (credit scoring of the American
economist D. Durant) return on total assets is also a
priority index, largely determining the solvency and
liquidity of the balance sheet, the financial stability of
the business entity. However, in practice the
profitability of the invested capital is not always
characterized by an optimal investment