Economic changes not only in the country, but also in the global labor market explain the increasing requirements to young specialists. There are new requirements to the model and quality of the graduate, new approaches to their competitiveness and efficiency. XXI century universities must graduate prepared specialists, who are able to adapt to the labor market and are ready for new changes, for self education, which in turn determines the meaning and function of higher education not "for life", but "during the whole life". Qualitatively new mission, the objectives and content of modern education in the new conditions is intended to be focused not just on the fundamental knowledge, but on the labor market, and on the formation of a practically oriented skills and competencies. The article discusses the conceptual content and structure of competences and competencies in different countries, the problem of professional competence is analyzed on the example of the United States, European countries, Russia and Kazakhstan.

The article discusses the modeling of grain transportation in the system of grain processing industries. The question of determining the need of vehicles for the maintenance of agricultural work is of great national economic importance. It is associated with the problem of the effective use of material and cash resources, land and labor in grain farming. The resulting task is a difficult experimental task.

The great work to create the conditions of transition to accounting in accordance with international and national standards has been done in the republic. A number of regulatory accounting and reporting regulations for all levels regulation have been adopted. However, a number of issues of the problem under study don't get sufficiently complete solution for agricultural enterprises and their main activities. The article presents the results of the study and the expediency of application of the model of simplified accounting. It has been shown that these problems can actually be solved by the development of accounting registers, corresponding to the requirements of the existing legislation in the Republic which allow to fully take into account the economic activity of small businesses (peasant (farm) enterprises, limited liability partnerships, co-operatives).

The article discusses the problems and prospects for the development of ethno, eco, agro and spiritual tourism. An important problem of ethno-tourism is the problem of increasing the excursion attractiveness of countries and regions. The main environmental problem of the development of society is the protection and storage of natural identity and security. This work is the result of research conducted by the author for the period 2012-2017. using statistical and financial reporting of Kazakhstan tourism. The work includes methods for comparing current years and past (base).Purpose of scientific work is analysis of the trends of development and approaches to the development of the state programs of the development of agro-, Etna and spiritual tourism in the economy Of the Republic Kazakhstan. Lies in the fact that in further development of methodological base the estimation of the effectiveness of agro-, Etna and spiritual tourism on the basis of innovation approach and unity of the processes of their functioning. The methods proposed in this work show what methods of programs can be used for the development of tourism both within the state and abroad.

The purpose of the scientific article is to determine the optimal options for attaching grain farms to grain receiving enterprises. When writing the work were used methods for studying bibliographic sources and the principles of economic and mathematical modeling, systematization, synthesis, comparison, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Results of the study – the optimal options for attaching grain farms to grain receiving enterprises were determined on the basis of the effective use of their technical ability in operations of receiving, processing, placing, forming batches of grain and the optimal scheme for linking grain receiving enterprises to processing plants taking into account the distance of transportation for the intended purpose, as well as the annual needs.