The paper is devoted to the research of foreign direct investment accounting in the capital of Russian companies, identifies the similarities and differences in approaches to identifying direct investments in accordance with international and domestic legal norms, detects the problems of inward foreign direct investment accounting and in statistical reports. The subject of the study is the problems of theory and practice of foreign direct investment accounting. The research is based on general scientific principles and research methods: systematization, induction and deduction, synthesis and analysis. Correct identification of direct foreign investments in accounts and reliable disclosure of the accounting information and statistical reporting, at present, causes difficulties for economic entities. The solution to these problems is available through the implementation of the professional judgment of the accountant. The work results having theoretical and applied significance, can be used as a basis for the development of a company’s accounting policy.

The paper considers the foreign direct investment (FDI) in the capital of Russian companies in the regional context. The subject of the research is the problem of collecting and unification of the information on attracted investment volumes for subsequent macroeconomic analysis. Within the framework of the study, the authors used such general scientific methods as systematization, induction and deduction, synthesis, as well as structuraldynamic and other types of analysis. The problems of attracting FDI in the economy and their uniform distribution across the regions of the Russian Federation currently remain relevant, and the structure of incoming FDI is highly deformed with a pronounced concentration of most of them in a limited range of regions with a strong geographic and sectoral uneven distribution. The results of the study, which have theoretical and applied significance, can be used for the investment attractiveness of Russian regions.