Экономические науки/10 Экономика предприятия.

The second-year students Cherkashina A. O.
The second-year students Siroyan A. G.

Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
The Department "Accounting, analysis and audit"

supervisor: Ph. D., associate professor Usanov, A. Yu

"History and prospects of development of economic analysis"

 

Introduction

The relevance of the economic analysis due to several circumstances. First of all, relevance is determined by the peculiarity of the current stage of development of economy of our society. In a modern, open and interconnected world, it is extremely necessary to study of regularities of functioning and development of the market system and the organization of financial and economic activity of enterprises. Achieving certain goals in the conduct of economic analysis and assumes knowledge of the discipline, its history and prospects of development from its origins to the present day.

Our aim is to trace the development of economic analysis, identify patterns and features, and to identify promising directions of further development of economic analysis.

The origin of economic analysis

The history of the development of economic analysis is inextricably linked with the history of formation and development of accounting. The main purpose of accounting for many centuries remained the desire with the greatest possible completeness reflect facts and values, acting accounting object.

Developed had household registration in Ancient Greece and ancient Rome. The development of accounting in the middle ages contributed to the emergence of companies, the expansion of credit and mediation.

The second half of the XV century was a turning point in the accounting.
In Russia a special interest in the history of accounting is the period associated with the reforms of Peter I.

By the end of the XIX century, accounting has developed as a science and as a practice.

Periodization of the development of economic analysis

The 1st stage. The end of XVIII—beginning of XX century (until 1917)
This stage can be attributed to the emergence of micro-economic analysis as an integral part of accounting.

The 2nd stage. 1917-1921 – the years of war communism. Special attention was paid in those years the development of statistics, accounting and control.

The 3rd stage. 1921-1930, the period of the NEP. This period is characterized by the beginning of the integrated use of economic information.

4-th stage. 1930-1941, business Analysis gained strict logical sequence.

5-th stage. 1941-1945 Particular importance has been the work on economic analysis in the great Patriotic war, when the acute shortage of resources needed to increase production.

6-th stage. 1946-1985. The deepening of the analysis of activity of divisions of the enterprise, differentiation analysis by sectors of national economy, the use of domestic techniques of analysis outside the country.

The 7th stage. Since 1986 (the current stage). In the period of transition to a market economy has increased interest in foreign methods of economic analysis, particularly the financial analysis independence and sustainability of the enterprise, assessing the potential of bankruptcy and solvency, the analysis of the activities of commercial banks, insurance companies and other enterprises new activities.

Current state of economic analysis and prospects of its development

There are several ways to improve the methodology of economic analysis in Russia.

Accounting and market-based approaches in economic analysis. The analysis of results of activity of enterprises includes a large number of different types of evaluations depending on the goal.

Situational analysis. Methods of economic analysis have to approach the needs of the enterprise, to meet the daily demands of management, given the presence of competition, inflation, the state of supply and demand.

Strategic analysis. Strategic analysis should be based on the results of a comprehensive economic analysis of all performance indicators – state of scientific and technical progress, development of intellectual capital, social and economic impacts of business development.

   Project Analysis. Project analysis provides a means for organizing the best choice among the alternatives by modeling the situation of a competitive market.

   Analysis of the effectiveness of business processes. The activity of any enterprise can be divided into specific business processes. For the survival of the enterprise are required to continuously improve quality and quantity of business processes.

   ABC-analysis. ABC analysis allows to justify the priorities and key areas of changes in production. When possible to identify key factors in the strategy and business plan, lenny acquire purposeful character, become more efficient and less-Kapita loemkimi.

   GAP-analysis - an analysis of gaps is one of the most effective methods of strategic analysis. When setting strategic goals often found serious gap between what was planned and what actually happened.

   Marketing analysis. Market research is a cost analysis. Analysis of marketing activities necessary to plan the sales of products and services - the basics of business planning for the future of the company.

   SWOT-analysis. It is used in strategic planning. SWOT is an abbreviation of the first letters of sections: potential internal strengths (strengths); potential internal weaknesses (weaknesses); potential external opportunities (opportunities); potential external threats (threats)..

   In this connection, you can select the new challenges and to outline prospects of economic analysis at the present stage:

·                   strengthening the role and significance of operational analysis and management;

·                   development of the theory and practice of prospective and strategic analysis;

·                   improving the methodology for assessing the competitiveness of businesses;

·                   design and development of marketing analysis;

·                   ensure social orientation analysis, ie design and development of socio-economic analysis;

·                   strengthening the role of economic and mathematical methods in solving analytical problems;

·                   further differentiation of economic analysis by industry;

·                   ensure interrelation of economic analysis, financial management, business valuation and evaluation of property companies;

·                   provision of complex analysis.

   Conclusion

   The development of economic analysis had several stages, each of which had its own quality characteristics and features. Expansion of the analysis of subjects related to the formation of the services market and the emergence of a number of new financial and credit institutions.

   The dynamism of the market economy has expanded the scope of activity of the economic analysis. On the one hand, the analysis business acts as a means of implementing the marketing functions, the other function as the marketing management in general. In these circumstances, great importance is the operational complex commercial analysis on macro and micro level. Its use in full imposes additional requirements for information provision, the composition of which varies to a considerable extent. Especially it is necessary to remember in the common judgment is now on the need to transfer accounting and statistics on global standards.

   Thus, the economic analysis, taking a separate place in the system of economic sciences, is inextricably linked with other related disciplines, based on them, complement and enrich the knowledge gained during their studies.

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