Issue №: 6 (34)
The magazine deals with the problems of the agricultural sector of the economy in the context of integration and processes of globalization. Attention is paid to the issues of development of digital economy, rural territories, technologies of enterprise management and organization of accounting, problems of legal support of economic processes, market tendencies of development of various branches of economy. Particular attention is paid to green tourism as a promising segment of the national economy.
DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
VASILETS Maria – Graduate Student of the Faculty of Accounting and Audit, specialty “Accounting and taxation”, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University (21008, Vinnytsia, 5, Sonyachna Str., room 543a, e-mail: vasilets.masha@ukr.net).
The essence and views of domestic and foreign scientists regarding the necessity of carrying out environmental audit are considered. The author's vision about the essence of the concept of “ecological audit” is formed. The author describes the chronological frameworks of development of environmental audit, which arised in Ukraine relatively recently. The critical state of the ecological situation in our state and is substantiated and the level of emission of harmful substances into the environment in Vinnytsia region in 2017 is monitored. The chronology of development of environmental audit is formed and methodology of conducting an eco-audit is described. According to the results of the conducted studies, “Eco-tests” have been developed, which will allow to increase the level of provision of audit services and to reduce the inherent risk. The sequence of actions of the auditor in the implementation of eco-tests in the audit process is considered. The objects (enterprises, institutions and organizations, their branches and representations or associations, separate factories, other economic objects, ecological management systems, other objects stipulated by law) and subjects (customers, executors of ecological audit) of the environmental audit are defined, and the stages of its conduction are determined. The author carried out the assessment of normative and legal regulation of environmental audit in Ukraine. The emphasis is placed on the cases of mandatory obligatory auditing of the environmental segment.
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