Accounting and information support of profit management under uncertainty

Abstract

The main components of the entity profit management system have been determined. The article pays attention to the information management organization on which the effectiveness of the whole system of management depends. The author researches the features of accounting information as a part of risk-based management from two perspectives: as the risk indicator of an economic activity and as the source of internal economic risks. Taking into consideration the existence of both external and internal risk factors of an economic activity, the availability of internal indicators which are formed in the accounting system, the article builds the relationship of information sources, factors of risk emerging and risks of financial results. While managing of financial results the author suggests to analyze the external and internal factors of economic risks in terms of controllability, namely, controlled, partially controlled and uncontrolled. It has been offered to conduct this analysis in order to determine the possibility of management of economic risk emergence factors and the risks which an enterprise takes already.

Keywords

• risk
• risk factor
• information security
• accountability
• accounting system
• financial results