Abstract: The subject of this research is the analysis of components constituting the efficiency of corporate strategy. The authors conduct detailed examination on the key elements of a competitive strategy proposing means for its assessment, and give recommendations in assessment of the efficiency of corporate development strategy, which plays the crucial role in realization and success of the activity of any company. The object of this research is the socioeconomic component of organization. An attempt was made to establish dependence between the key economic indicators of activity of the company and successful implementation of its strategy, which allowed formulating the main principles for its assessment. In the current context, the rapid changes in external environment force the companies to build more flexible development strategies and constantly adjust them in accordance with the dictated changes. At the same time, it is important to be able to assess the existing strategy through the prism of work performance indicators. The article substantiates the need for constant monitoring and assessment of the efficiency of existing corporate development strategy; establishes connection between the goals, resources, outlook, mission of the company with its strategy; as well as suggests the principles for assessing efficiency of corporate strategy that would facilitate timely determination of problematic areas from the strategic perspective and initiate measures for their elimination, which maintain the company’s competitiveness and help achieve long-terms success.

Keywords: organization development, competitiveness, company, efficiency, assessment, implementation, strategic management, strategy, business environment, principles

Abstract:   The analytical research of the state of the non-financial reporting of the metallurgic industry demonstrates that the public non-financial reports regularly present five companies, of which the reports of three companies meet the requirements of the international GRI standards. The conducted thorough analysis of disclosing the details of the report by elements and groups, in accordance with the current version of the GRI standards, revealed that the highest level of disclosed information is in the reports of the Severstal and Metalloinvest companies. In addition to that, the reports of the aforementioned companies are the only ones in the industry that go through the process of external certification. To improve the quality of the public non-financial reporting, the authors propose forms of internal reporting on in the aria of the crucial social and environmental activity of the metallurgic companies, which allow determining objective trends and causes of the changes in the indexes, conduct substantiated selection of prioritized efforts of social support, and timely implementation of measures on prevention of social tension and high employee turnover.  

Keywords: external certification, GRI, international standards, concept of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, metallurgical companies, Non-financial reporting, shareholders, disclosure, forms of the internal reporting

Abstract: This article analyzes the economic factors that affect the market of engineering, development, and construction of nuclear power plants. The author provides forecast of the key possible trends in this field in the course of technological reforms, which can significantly influence the market overall, as well as the decisions made by corporations. The work examines the feasible criteria for choosing the type of power generation, as well as analyzes the economic components of nuclear engineering from the perspective of the electrical grid into which it is integrated in the context of regional economy. The author provides the main macroeconomic parameters, which affect or affected by nuclear engineering, alongside the consequences of their transformation in presence of a nuclear component in overall generation. The work also presents the examples of secondary economic benefits received from installation of nuclear power plants, and the level of their importance in decision-making regarding the construction of new power plants. The conducted research represents the most extensive analysis of factors that have direct impact upon the market of nuclear power plants.

Keywords: Marketability, International holding company, Prospects of nuclear industry, National economy, Cost of electric power, Source of electricity, Sustainable generation , Energy independence, International market, Nuclear engineering

Abstract: The object of study is organizational and economic relations in the sphere commercial bank management. More narrowly, the author studies the issues of the main vectors for the efficiency improvement of strategic banking management in the current situation, including the following: the use of transfer pricing; introduction of process and cost approaches to bank management, introduction of the BPM — Business Performance Management; reengineering of banking business processes, introduction of organizing technological system of for analytical and informative needs. The author used the following scientific cognitions methods: study and analysis of normative legal basis, analytical method, studies of monographic publications and article. The author offers the following directions for improving the efficiency of banking within the framework of studies of efficiency improvement for the strategic banking management: introduction of banking management standards, efficient benchmarking, efficient management of relations with clients. Introduction and improvement of the abovementioned directions shall facilitate the change in the approaches and methods of strategic banking management as a whole, and it shall also facilitate uncovering positive and negative management features in a specific commercial bank in order to make its work more efficient.

Keywords: commercial bank, strategy, banking management, financial management, strategic management, credit organization management, eff icient ban king management, ban king management improvement, strategic management improvement, competitiveness of the bank.

Abstract: The article presents characteristic features of energy strategy of the foreign political activities of Russia in the CIS territory. The author notes the key priorities of the energy policy and diplomacy of Russia in the CIS, as well as the key directions and perspectives for the cooperation in the power industry.

Keywords: political science, national security, energy strategy, foreign policy, energy cooperation, international relations, CIS, the Central Asia, transit of hydrocarbons, conflict of interests.

Abstract: The article focuses on the choice of method adequate to quantify the level of risk of financial assets portfolio. The author analyzes the basic methods of calculating Value at Risk and provides characteristics of the measures of risks under study and classification of methods to assess them. The author consistently studies the methods of «full assessment» (the method of historical simulation and Monte-Carlo method) and «local evaluation» (parametric technique) and presents basic principles of implementation of the methods, formulas for calculating Value at Risk, requirements to initial values, predictive capabilities and accuracy characteristics of the methods. The study draws conclusions on the possible use of various implementations of methods for calculating Value at Risk for the purpose of analyzing various portfolios of financial assets and various types of financial risks (market risk, credit risk). The author mentions the necessity of further development of the method of local evaluation not sensitive to the nature of distribution of the stochastic variable.

Keywords: Value at Risk, historical, parametric, Monte Carlo method, approximation function, pseudo-random number generator, method of visual simulation.