About the department

The Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting of the Faculty of Taxes, Audit and Business Analysis was established by the decision of the Academic Council of the FinU (Protocol No. 53 dated August 28, 2000), Order of the FinU dated September 1, 2000 No. 1457/O.

The Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting was established by splitting the Department of Business Analysis and Audit of the Faculty of Taxes, Audit and Business Analysis (formerly the Department of Accounting, Analysis and Audit).

Our Vision

The Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting is a recognized leader in the system of higher professional education of accountants and auditors; it is a constantly and well-balanced growing scientific and educational department of the FinU, which conducts versatile theoretical and applied scientific researches, expert developments, effectively combined with the education of highly qualified, practice-oriented economists, fundamentally trained researchers, expert analysts, teachers and other specialists in accounting and auditing.

Our Mission is:

• To train specialists in accounting and auditing, capable of working in leading multinational and domestic audit and consulting companies, in leading positions (chief accountant, financial director, head of internal control) in large commercial organizations and banks, capable in the future of leading an economic department or ministry of the Government of the Russian Federation,
• To conduct basic and applied research in accounting and auditing at a level, quality and innovative approach comparable to the research of leading universities in Russia and the world,
• To maintain the status of a leader in accounting and auditing among universities in Russia and abroad.

Educational Process

The Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting carries out a full cycle of pedagogical and methodological work on the preparation of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in all forms of education, retraining and advanced training of faculty, professional retraining and second higher education of managers and specialists of financial and accounting services; the Department trains postgraduates, doctoral students, and job applicants.

The main vector of educational process’s strategic development of the Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting is the implementation (in close cooperation with business partners) of master’s degree programs, whose disciplines are formed on the basis of the results of its own scientific research within the framework of the Department’s priorities.

Continuing Education

Within the Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting there is a Scientific and Educational Centre for Continuing Education and Financial Consulting, which conducts a wide range of continuing education programs and provides expert analytical and consulting services in accounting and auditing.

Scientific Work

The Department of Audit and Corporate Reporting within the framework of the Scientific and Pedagogical School “Accounting, Analytical and Control Processes of Economic Entities of the Information Society” conducts research in the following priority areas:

• Transparency as a basic function of accounting and auditing institutions,
• New concepts of public reporting of the organization in the information society (the concept of reporting on organization’s sustainable development; the concept of integrated reporting of the organization; the concept of reporting on intellectual capital),
• Concept and principles of using new tools to increase the analytical capability and accessibility of reporting information, in particular the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL),
• Development of the basic principles and rules for accounting for the components of the company’s intellectual capital,
• Concept of business auditing,
• Concept and principles of using mathematical modeling methods and new information technologies in auditing, primarily distributed ledger and blockchain technologies.