The article outlines the main indicators, methods, principles that are part of the information data setnecessary for the successful formation of a strategy for the development of the Okrug in the innovative economy.

The development of global value chains within digital economy is considered in this research paper. The special attention has been paid to the place of the Russian companies in existing GVC including main problems of participation in such networks for them. The author has suggested a setofinstructions which could influence on the activity ofRussian companies in existing and new networks taking into account structural changes of global economics based on the development of information technologies.

The article considers the directions of strategic development of financial control in Russia in the contextof the existing internal and external factors affecting the economy as a whole. This requires a detailed concept of strengthening financial control at all levels of the state and municipal sector.

The article presents the basic interpretations of the concept of «economic security», which are necessary for developing further actions by the administration of enterprises to choose the tools and mechanism for implementing economic security in the enterprise.

Materials and methods. The article examines the approaches of modern Russian scientists to the definition of the current state and prospects for the development of import substitution in Russia; the possible directions of tax incentives for innovative and export-oriented import substitution, as well as import substitution in the agro-industrial complex in the context of maintaining national food security are analyzed.

This article considers the current state of antimonopoly regulation of Russia in the sphere of state (municipal) purchases; regulatory framework governing the scope of state (municipal) procurement; the impactofRussian Federal Antimonopoly Service activities on improving competition in the sphere of state (municipal) purchases.

In article features of small forms of business activity in a services sector are considered. At the beginning ofarticle the role of small enterprises in development ofa services sector is investigated. It is noted that small enterprises are of great importance in creation of new jobs. It is specified that small enterprises are indicators of state of the economy of the country, increasing in quantitative expression during rise and decreasing during recession. In work the concept «small business» from the economic and legal point of view is analysed. The conclusion is drawn that for numerical accounting of small enterprises it is necessary to use legal approach to this concept. Within article dynamics of number of small enterprises is tracked, it is revealed that the lion's share is made by the organizations of a services sector. It is revealed that small enterprises of a services sector choose such legal forms of business as the individual entrepreneur and limited liability company, the reasons for which these forms have found great popularity at businessmen in a services sector are designated. Besides, in work the attention is focused that the small service organizations in the majority use services of the outsourcing and autstaffingovy companies. It is noted that in addition the directcontact of the performer of service with the client puts into dependence small enterprise on degree of satisfaction of the consumer with process of rendering service, therefore, maintaining reputation of small enterprise of a services sector by means of the fullest satisfaction of needs of the client is the key purpose of functioning of the organization of a services sector.

The article deals with the brief history of the securities market in Germany, its participation, the role of commercial banks, the system of organization of stock exchanges, financial instruments.

Article opens the main problems of development of insurance of property of legal entities in depressive regions. The analysis of the reasons of the low involvement of the enterprises located in the territory of depressive regions is carried out to insurance process. Recommendations about stimulation of insurance of property of legal entities are made.

The study of the nature, content and structure of the market scientists around the world and different shares of economy have been paying attention for several centuries. Evolutionary processes are also inherent in the market of sports events. The article discusses the main stages of the development of the sports events market and their main characteristics. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the current state of the Russian market of sports events.

The article deals with the organization of the internal control system of inventories, including its main objectives, subsystems, methods and means of control, as well as the possibilities of improving the internal control system based on the application of economic and mathematical methods.

Basedon the comparative analysis of returns and the structure of pension savings portfolios of Australian pension funds, the author assesses the investment strategy and highlights the key factors of their impact on profitability, assuming that sooner or later Western practices will be applied on the Russian stock market.

The article examines the scope of insurance and the competitiveness of insurance companies in close relationship with the factors that determine it. The analysis of competitiveness of five insurance companies with an estimation of the factors which have defined the received results is carried out.

Thousand nine hundred seventeenth year is one of the rubezhnykh of dates in national history. There is no such field of activity which would be not affected by rough and fatal events of this year.

The article presents the main theoretical and practical approaches to the solution of the problem of creating a system for assessing the employee's contribution to the overall result of the enterprise's work, integrated with the system of assessing its competence and the quality of labor contribution, as a unified information base when deciding on awarding and de-bonuses.

In the article the author considers carrying out of morphological analysis at merger, joining and takeover of companies. In tabular form the author made examples of morphological analysis when joining companies. The author concludes that with the help of morphological analysis the implementation of the process of reorganization of the enterprise will be faster if each point is calculated in advance and the final decision on expediency of carrying out this transaction.

The article presents an analytical review of approaches to birth forecasting developed in recent decades and actively used in practice. The approaches are divided into four classes: extrapolation, interpolation, based on the theory of reproductive behavior and multicausal. Among the extrapolation approaches, special attention is paid to Lee, Hyndman and Ullah models, which are representing a variety of time series models. We analyze the use of such functions of age-specific fertility distribution as the functions of Coale-Trussel, Hadwiger, beta- and gamma-distributions, double exponential Rogers function, polynomial models or spline functions (for example, the square spline function of Schmertmann), Pearson's curve of the first type. These models differ in the number of parameters and their demographic interpretability.

The article shows the conditions and factors of formation and development of professional competences of trade Union leaders atdifferent stages of their formation. Special attention is paid to the process of training of future managers in the period of study in higher educational institutions.

The article deals with actual issues of personnel risks in project activities in the modern world, differences of the design type of work from the usual current activities of the company. The most significant personnel risks of project activities are identified in the article, examples of minimization of personnel risks are given.