Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit

About the Department

The Department was formed as a result of a merger of the following teaching departments as per Academic Council resolution (minutes No. 44 of 26 May 2016) and the Financial University order No. 1203/о of 30 May 2016:

  • Department of Audit and Control 
  • Department of Business Analysis 
  • Department of Accounting 
  • Department of Accounting in Financial and Not-for-Profit Institutions 
  • Department of Statistics 

Vision and mission  

The Department of Accounting, Analysis and Audit is the recognized leader in university training of accountants, auditors, analysts and statisticians. It is a steadily growing Financial University research and teaching department. It is engaged in various theoretical and applied research and expert analysis. The research work is efficiently combined with training of highly- qualified, practice-oriented economists, researchers that have a fundamental knowledge of the field, analysts, instructors and other experts in the field of accounting, account analysis and audit.

The Department has the following key goals: 

To train experts in accounting, account analysis, audit and statistics who could work in the leading multinational and Russian audit and consulting firms, occupy managerial positions (those of a chief accountant, financial director, head of internal control department, analyst) in major commercial companies and banks, who could in the future run an economic department or become head of a ministry in the Government of the Russian Federation;

To conduct fundamental and applied research in the field of accounting, account analysis, audit and statistics at the level that is comparable to that of the leading Russian and overseas universities due to the quality of provision and the innovative approach used;

To keep the leader status among the Russian and overseas universities that offer programs in Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit.

Teaching and learning

 The Department of Accounting, Analysis and Audit offers bachelor and master degree programs in all learning modes; offers advanced training and professional development programs to  teaching staff, further education programs to executives and personnel of the financial and accounting departments. The Department staff trains postgraduate students, doctoral students and degree seekers. The Department is engaged in developing the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, in training of top managers within the Presidential Executive Training Program.  The key objective of the strategic learning process development is to offer master programs where the curricula are based on the findings of the Department own research done in the field of accounting while acting in close cooperation with the industry partners.

The Department offers bachelor degree programs in Economics (with the concentration in Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit). 

The Department offers master degree programs in Economics (with the following concentrations):

Audit and Financial Consulting (enrolment: 2017)

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Program Director

Roman Bulyga, Doctor of Economics, Professor, member, Financial University Academic Council, member, Academic Council of the Faculty of Accounting and Audit, member of the Executive Body at the Audit Council under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; chartered auditor

Accounting and Legal Framework for Business Operations (a double degree program launched in cooperation with the international partner)   (enrolment: 2017) 

Program Directors

Leonid Shneidman, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director, Department of Accounting Regulation, Financial Reporting and Audit, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation        

Olga Rozhnova, Doctor of Economics, Professor,   Honored Worker of Higher Education

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Program Director

Viktor Getman,  Doctor of Economics, Professor,    Distinguished Worker of Higher Education

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Program Director

Olga Yefimova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of the Financial University; member, Accounting Standards Council under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; member of the International Institute of Business Analysis, member of the editorial board, Euro-Asian Journal of Sustainable Energy Development Policy, Audit.

Financial Condition of the Market (enrolment: 2017)

Program Director

Viktor Salin, PhD (Economics), Professor,   Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education, holder of the Russian Government Award in education; member, Research and Methodology Council, Russian Federal State Statistics Service, member, Presidium, Statistics Section, Central House of Researchers, Russian Academy of Sciences 

Nadezhda Kiseleva, Doctor of Economics, Professor  

Financial-Industrial Groups: Analysis and Finance; Engineering Systems and Technologies   (enrolment: 2017)

(a double degree program launched in cooperation with MISIS National University of Science and Technology)  

Program Directors

Yekaterina Kameneva, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Vice-Rector for Educational Program Development and International Cooperation, Financial University

Vadim Petrov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Vice-Rector for Teaching,  MISIS National University of Science and Technology

International Finance (program taught in English) (enrolment: 2017) (a double master degree program launched in cooperation with the University of Glasgow)

Program Directors

Aleksandr Ilyinsky, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Editor-in-Chief, Review of Business and Economics Studies (ISSN 2308-944X), member, international editorial board,  Eurasian  Journal for Sustainable Energy Development  (ISSN 1791-6119), member, international editorial board, e-Finance Quarterly  (ISSN: 1734-039X), member, Researcher and  Expert Council, Russian-Chinese Business Council      

Jo Danbolt, PhD in Finance, Director of Postgraduate Studies, Professor of Finance, Associate Dean for Academic Services, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

Taxes, Accounting, Tax Consulting (enrolment: 2017)

Program Directors

Lyubov Goncharenko, Head, Department of Tax Policy and Customs Tariff Regulation, Doctor of Economics,  Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, member of the International Fiscal Association, expert in taxes and taxation    

 Olga Savina, PhD (Economics), Associate Professor,   Department of Tax Policy and Customs Tariff Regulation  

Elena Dombrovskaya, PhD (Economics), Associate Professor,  Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit   

Tax Support of Business Projects

Program Directors

Olga Mandroshchenko, Doctor of Economics, Professor,   Department of Tax Policy and Customs Tariff Regulation, member, Thesis Board,     Financial University

 Aleksandr Gurnak, PhD (Economics), Associate Professor,   Department of Tax Policy and Customs Tariff Regulation   

Public Audit and Control

Program Director

Margarita Melnik, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit, Distinguished Scholar  of the Russian Federation, member of three Thesis Boards, Deputy Editor-in-Chief,  Uchet, analiz, Audit (Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit) and Auditorskiye Vedomosti (Auditor's Bulletin) journals   

Internal Control

Program Directors

Irina Vetrova, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit

Igor Turuyev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit, Head, Internal Audit Department, Russian Agricultural Bank  

Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit (mode: off-site)

 

Program Director

Aleksandr Petrov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of Accounting, Account Analysis and Audit

Managerial Accounting and Controlling (mode: off-site)

 

Program Director

Maria Vakhrushina, Doctor of Economics, Professor

The Department offers programs in Accounting and Statistics to postgraduate and doctoral students. You can find a specialization area official description at the Russian State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles web site

Scientific schools

 

Accounting, Account Analysis and Controlling Systems in Economics scientific school

Academic Advisor

Leonid Shneidman, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director, Department of Accounting Regulation, Financial Reporting and Audit, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation   

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 Statistics of Finance scientific school

Academic Advisor

Viktor Salin, PhD (Economics), Professor,   Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education, holder of the Russian Government Award in education; member, Research and Methodology Council, Russian Federal State Statistics Service, member, Presidium, Statistics Section, Central House of Researchers, Russian Academy of Sciences  Find out more