HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATIZATION OF THE CONTROL AND ACCOUNTING CHAMBER OF MOSCOW (1994–2014)

Th e use of information resources is a promising area of activity of state control and accounting bodies. Nowadays an eff ective budget control and analysis of socio-economic development of the region are impossible without special tools to reduce the time spent on data processing. Th e article deals with historical aspects of informatization of the Control and Accounting Chamber of Moscow and examines the formation of its information and analytical system as an example of automation of the activity of the external fi nancial control institu-tion. Th e author analyzes the Chamber’s annual reports in 1997–2014. He employs its local acts and other documents refl ecting the process of automation of control practice. Th e study of these documents, as well as federal and Moscow legislation, normative legal acts of the Government and mayor of Moscow, and the Moscow City Duma made it possible to identify the features of the Chamber’s informatiza-tion processes from 1994 to 2014, including the main stages in the creation of the Chamber’s information and communication technology infrastructure, composi-tion and main functions of the Chamber’s information and analytical system as a model for interaction with Moscow public authorities and governmental agen-cies. Previously the issues of the history of the Chamber’s informatization had not been specifi cally examined, while a comprehensive picture of the development of new management technologies, which have been introduced in the practice of the executive and legislative authorities of Moscow since the end of the twentieth century, cannot be provided without a special focus on these topics. Consideration of this aspect of development of control and counting functions in the capital of Russia in the post-Soviet period will supplement the currently available knowl-edge about the history of such activity in the past and also will help to identify traditions and innovations in the domestic management practices and thus trace techniques, which are reintroduced in an optimized form at each new stage of development of country and society.