The paper discusses importance and potential of scenario technologies in the management of companies. The administration of Russian enterprises in conditions of high competitiveness have to replace methods and instruments of forecasting from passive to active. The advantages and limitations of using scenario technologies in the management of the company are identified.

The article deals with the management of automobile dealer center current assets. It was revealed that structure of current assets mostly consists of stocks. The model for calculating marginal income, which takes into account cost of financing, is proposed. The conclusion was made that achievement of effective management of current assets is possible due to trade-offs between customer satisfaction and achieving a balance between increasing profits and ensuring the solvency of the company.

The article deals with the concept and the basic provisions of functioning mechanism investment market as an effective power of the whole investment process.

The paper considers following topics: accuracy of socio-economic forecasting, reform of “nomenclature and oligarchical postindustrialism”, need for comprehensive modernization of the country.

The article reflects the role of commercialization of scientific and technological progress in addressing problems of economic growth. Specific features of modern society development are found. It is proved that innovative activity promotes formation of sustainable competitive advantages of economic subjects. The risks of innovative activity of automotive companies are investigated, its classification is offered.

The paper proposes a number of reasonable arguments, which suggest that modes of foreign automobiles assembly that operate in Russia, could lead to the modernization and development of the automotive industry. Moreover, the results of these modes allow to build the development strategy of automotive industry.

The article deals with the problem of determining the accounting results and their reflection in the financial statements for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The proposals were made on basis of accounting information analysis to provide the ways of completing better reports on the performance of SMEs.

The paper considers following topics: factors affecting the level of prices in market, bargain prices and their types when selling innovative products, pricing options and strategic approaches of enterprises in promoting a new product on the market. Analytical dependences in the formation of prices in the market are provided.

This article attempts to identify some of economic and environmental aspects of feasibility of production and subsequent operation of vehicles equipped with starter-generator device. A small overview of the status of this problem in Russia and the world is given. The factors, which are conducive to operation of this type of vehicles are analyzed.

The paper considers experience of automation of business processes for storage of inventory implementation at industrial warehouse.

The article deals with the renewal and modernization of equipment of the aircraft industry, and explores the complexities and challenges of their realization

This paper deals with the problems of “green” economy, a new direction in economic science that has developed in recent years. The article deals with ways and principles of “green” economy in Russia, as well as its contemporary state.

Starting from market reforms and transition from a command economy to one based on competition a new type economic entities appeared in Russia, those are corporate structures. The appearance of such structures in the Russian economy, their formation and sustainable development are, of course, the most important trends. Any errors that occur in the activities of corporate structures are legitimate and quite understandable consequence of the imperfection and inefficiency of the mechanisms used to manage them. The ability of corporate structures to be open to changes i.e. ability to optimize and transform their activities in compliance with the requirements of the time are the most important conditions, which can be seen as strategic flexibility, which should form the basis of modern management mechanisms of functioning and development of these businesses. The article describes the main theoretical and methodological aspects of modern views on strategic management in corporate structures that operate in national economy.

The paper discusses individual cases of direct foreign investments in the domestic machine tool industry. The characteristics of foreign investments and the factors of their implementation are summarized. A solution for smoothing the ambiguous impact of increased foreign investment is offered.

The article deals with the problem of commercialization of university research through small innovative enterprises in the field of applied robotics and information technology. The authors show a fundamental contradiction between innovative entrepreneurship and regulatory framework in the area of small innovative enterprises. For consideration it is proposed a review of the state of the modern high-tech industry in Russia and abroad. Recommendations on measures to support the work of innovative enterprises from the university and the state are given.

Article is dedicated to one of the pages in the history of professional training for handicraft industry of Moscow Province at the turn of XIX-XX centuries. Analyzing archival materials, the author shows that handicraft training workshops have become the centers for the dissemination of technical knowledge and new artistic techniques among the handicraftsmen contributed to the development of many kinds of crafts.

The article describes the main existing approaches to defining the essence of information policy in various spheres of public activity. A comparison of domestic and international experience in the studied area is made. The author's approach to the definition of information policy is proposed in the article.

This article analyzes the internal contradictions in the Russia-NATO system. The author identifies four types of internal contradictions - ideological, economic, military and political. These contradictions at up-to-date stage have a significant pressure on the process of interaction between the parties in the national security of Russia.

The article considers the process of creating the first Soviet government. The author studies the inter-party debate about its composition. Standpoints of the Bolshevik leaders and the leaders of other parties are represented.

The article discusses the features of scientific way of thinking formed in the framework of classical science of XVII-XIX centuries. Particular attention is paid to the value of creativity. An ambivalent attitude to modern science is demonstrated.

This paper examines the historical and theoretical circumstances that determined the formation and development of the philosophical and cultural phenomenon as scientism. The paper pays attention to the specificity and importance of science as a social phenomenon as well as the influence of scientistic ideas on contemporary culture.

The article considers the ontological or actual (physical) modalities. The authors attempt the formation of concepts for necessity, opportunity and affection, and show their use on a specific example on biology experience.

The article discusses the features of research in the field of logic. The paper describes the logical and non-logical terms, explores empirical and theoretical features of logical terms. Logical and methodological criteria of scientific and scientific knowledge are presented as well.

The article presents a study of the transition from the representation of information in the form of computer data to the representation of information in the form of computer knowledge in the evolution of algorithmic programming languages.

This article analyzes the process of cognition, reveals the role, forms and types of doubts. The question of the place of intellectual intuition in the process of awareness of the problem situation is considered.

The article considers the trends in development of Internet communications in Russia both in terms of global processes in a world and against information life of a person; it shows different points of view of famous scientists and writers on the Internet's impact on people's behavior, particularly on intellectual activity.

The article considers the process of formation and development of the philosophical foundations of the psychological concept of talent in the 17 th-18 th centuries. The authors carried out analysis of the major philosophies of that era which influenced development of the philosophical foundations of the psychological concept of talent.

For a long time in Europe and the US there is a departure from the methods of testing to dialogue forms of career guidance. This is due to the ability to provide feedback to students, as well as compiling individual recommendations. At the same time interdisciplinary approaches to career counseling gain increasing popularity. In particular, the narrative method of career guidance allows to integrate the advantages of the approaches proposed by psychologists, sociologists, educators and others. This article discusses the prospects for the use of this method, as well as its limitations.

The article discusses formation of competencies of students through research activities. It considers the basic approaches (voluntary and mandatory) to involvement of students to research activities. The authors discuss the problems arising during implementation and the ways of their solution.

This paper gives a comparative analysis of the structure and content of the federal state educational standards (GEF) for secondary (complete) general education and higher education, it considers a unified model of graduates of educational institutions on the basis of identical conceptual framework. The authors made recommendations to improve the structure of the standards to ensure the continuity of educational programs.

The article analyzes the current trends of high school preparation and considers project-based learning as a way to overcome the contradictions of the educational process to achieve maximum results in the formation of linguistic competence.

The article discusses the role of a tutor (learning process organizer) in distance learning system, as well as the requirements for modern and efficient systems of e-learning. It was found that personal qualities of a tutor significantly affect the efficiency of the educational process, even in distance forms of education.

The paper deals with the synthesis of e-learning system, which allows to explore and manage the process of hard alloy production, the results of scientific studies of the synthesis of hard alloys, which are based on the model of sintering carbide structure library of mathematical models. The authors developed the system of e-learning management process of obtaining hard alloys.

The article offers a model of formation of the integrity of the thinking and practice of employees in industries of energy efficiency and energy conservation. The model is based on a holistic approach of completics of Professor M. M. Telemtaev. The complex of employee competencies is considered as a compound model of their production activities, which consists of three parts. Model of interaction of employee with professional environment for energy efficiency and energy saving industries contains models of requirements to an employee, as well as the model of requirement of an employee to energy efficiency and conservation industries. Application of the results obtained by the authors allows to construct an integrated system of competence of all categories workers in the field of energy efficiency and energy conservation.

The paper studies the educational opportunities of social networking. It examines the place of social networks in the Smart-education, as well as practical recommendations on the use of social-networking training.

The article clarifies the content and strategic goals of scientific and methodological support and information support as preconditions for improving of interaction between the Russian Ministry of Education with education authorities of the Russian Federation region and regulating the flow of relevant documentation.

The article discusses examples of distance learning technologies and systems for building computer-based training programs.