The standards are one of the most important infrastructural elements of the economy. The relationship between all factors ensuring product quality and safety is carried out by using complex standardization. The standards establish and ensure the technically achievable level of safety, quality and competitiveness of products. The main factors of standardization object: the object composition, object production and monitoring, in their turn, form the following more precise groups of factors, determining the object quality: primary products and materials, component nodes and parts, production technology, equipment, tools and appliances, measurement means, and test methods. On the example of a specific standard, the "tree of references" of the first and second levels and the problems of an integrated approach for establishing quality requirements for a specific product is considered. The necessity and complexity of updating the requirements that ensure the systematization, optimization and coordination of all interacting factors influencing a specific object of standardization and providing an economically optimal level of quality of the object are demonstrated

This article presents the results of analysis of the grain industry state of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan in comparison with the forecast and actual changes in the volumes of world production and sale of grain. A comparative analysis of the gross grain harvest and its structure, the dynamics of planting areas changes and the yield of wheat, as well as the structure of grain production prime cost, was carried out using the example of the most typical regions bordering each other - the Orenburg and Kostanay regions. The management accounting system, in particular its production accounting subsystem, is adapted to the conditions of a particular enterprise, which must be developed on the basis of management goals and capabilities. It should be noted that all the basic elements of management accounting were widely used in domestic practice. However, the lack of interest of workers in improving production efficiency did not allow to obtain the proper effect from the use of these elements. The generalization of European and domestic economic experience allows us to conclude that management accounting currently allows successfully implement the functions of accounting, planning, control and regulation of the cost of production - one of the most important indicators of the economic entity.

The authors analyze the main factors influencing the development of the competitiveness of enterprises at the regional level. Taking into account the peculiarities of regional policy, geographical factors, logistics systems and other conditions, this system of factors will change, influencing the support measures necessary for the development of agriculture at the regional level. The authors systematized the factors and obstacles that have a positive and negative impact on agricultural enterprises. The analysis of internal factors influencing the competitiveness and development of the enterprise in the regional and state market is also given. The proposed systematization is universal, and the set of factors correlates with regional features. The authors note that the presented set of factors can be transformed with the development of technologies and force majeure circumstances that do not depend on the actions of enterprises and public authority.

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the subjective assessments of entrepreneurs regardingimplemented control procedures in the context of the reform of control and supervision activities.Research Methods. The methods used in the article are analysis, synthesis, description, classification, as wellas special sociological methods.The results of the study. The authors conducted a sociological study that substantiated the need to improveexisting indicators for assessing the control and supervision activities’ impact on the functioning of small andmedium-sized enterprises. The article substantiates such barriers to reforming control and supervisionactivities as the volume of unscheduled inspections, insufficient information transparency, and legal illiteracyof business.