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Volume 9, Issue 13, December 2018, pp. 159-169, Article ID: IJCIET_09_13_017
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ABSTRACT
The article is devoted to efficiency assessment of invested funds in the course of
performance audits in construction companies with state participation, as well as to
the problems of determination and identification of performance indicators. The
authors emphasize the peculiarities of determining the efficiency of the state funds
usage indicators and their interaction with the going concern assessment.
Key words: Efficiency, Performance Audit, State Resources, Construction
Companies, Going Concern, State Audit Standards.
Cite this Article: Irina Sergeevna Egorova, Svetlana Nikolaevna Milovidova and
Maria Mikhailovna Basova, Audit of the Effectiveness of Construction Organizations
with a Share of State Participation in the Russian Federation, International Journal of
Civil Engineering and Technology, 9(13), 2018, pp. 159–169
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1. INTRODUCTION
In both Russian and international auditing practice, the efficiency assessment of invested funds
has become extremely important. Despite the fact that according to Russian auditing standards,
a user should not take an auditor’s opinion as a confirmation of the efficient conduct of
business, this assessment is one of the primary in making managerial decisions. Moreover,
performance assessment is paramount when conducting internal control and internal audit in
accordance with professional business standards.
Issues related to performance audit are quite well examined regarding the assessment of the
use of state funds when conducting a state audit, as well as identifying a system of key
performance indicators for state-owned companies. Performance audit plays an important role
in the specific structure of audit measures of the Russian Audit Chamber.
In the international state audit practice, performance audit issues are considered in the
following standards: ISSAI 100 “Fundamental Principles of Public-Sector Auditing”, ISSAI
300 “Fundamental Principles of Performance Auditing”, ISSAI 3000 “Standards for
Performance Auditing”, and ISSAI 3100 “Performance Audit Guidelines” [1].
When determining the place of construction companies with state participation among
companies that are subject to a performance audit, several problems can be identified:
1. the problem of identifying construction companies with state participation;
2. the problem of determining the share of state participation;
3. the problem of determining the organizational-legal form of a construction
company with a share of state participation in order to apply Key Performance
Indicators (KPI);
4. the problem of identifying types of an audit of companies with state participation in
various statutory and legal acts and highlighting a performance audit as an
independent area of control;
5. the problem of identifying the notion of “performance” in various statutory and
legal acts.
The first four problems are specified in Table 1.
Table 1. The problems of determining the place of construction companies with state participation
among companies that are subject to a performance audit
Definitions, size
№ Problem Interpretation of a statutory and legal act
of state share
According to Law No. 402-FZ “On Accounting” dated
December 6, 2011 [2], public-sector companies are as
Public-sector follows: government (municipal) institutions, public bodies,
enterprises local self-government bodies, governing bodies of
government off-budget funds, governing bodies of territorial
government off-budget funds.
According to Law No. 261-FZ “On Energy Saving and
Improving Energy Efficiency and Amending Separate
Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” dated November
23, 2009 [3], the following legal entities are considered
enterprises, shares of which are held by the state or a
Development of municipal formation:
1. - enterprises, in the charter capitals of which a share held by
definitions
the Russian Federation, a constituent entity of the Russian
Economic entities Federation, a municipal formation exceeds 50%;
with a share of - enterprises, regarding which the Russian Federation, a
state participation constituent entity of the Russian Federation or a municipal
formation is entitled to directly or indirectly control over
50% of the total votes, which fall to voting shares (stakes)
that constitute the charter capital of such legal entities;
- state or municipal unitary enterprises, state or municipal
institutions;
- state-owned enterprises;
- state-owned corporations;
The fact that the standard does not give a formalized view of the performance indicators is
also a problem. For this reason, we propose to formalize the performance definitions by these
standards (economy, efficiency and productivity).
Economy is understood as a situation when a company under performance audit achieves
specified results by using as little federal and other resources as possible.
According to State Audit Standard No. 104, the economy condition for federal and other
resources can be shown in the following formalized form:
FIR1 < FIR0 with R0 = R1,
where FIR0 is the amount of federal and other resources in the base period (data of the plan,
of the previous period);
FIR1 is an actual amount of federal and other resources;
R0 is the planned results;
R1 is the achieved results.
Table 2. Efficiency indicators for the use of federal and other resources according to State Audit
Standard No. 104 and their characteristics
Efficiency of the use of federal and other resources
Economy Efficiency Productivity
Characterized by specified Characterized by the amount of Characterized by the best
results achieved by a resources specified by a results achieved by a
performance audit subject, performance audit subject per performance audit subject using
using as little federal and other unit of work performed and a specific amount of federal and
resources as possible. services provided. other resources.
The efficiency condition for the use of federal and other resources according to State Audit
Standard No. 104 can be shown in the following formalized form:
RU0 / FIR0 <= RU1 / FIR1,
Where FIR0 is standards and indicators, which are used by budgeting participants when
planning budgetary allocations;
FIR1 is the amount of resources spent;
RU0 is the planned work, services;
RU1 is the actual scope of work performed and services provided.
The productivity condition for the use of federal and other resources according to State
Audit Standard No. 104 can be shown in the following formalized form:
FIR0 = FIR1, with R1 >= R0
For this reason, we propose to present the assessment of the economic use of federal and
other resources as part of performance audit in construction companies with state participation
in the form of the following working document (Table 3).
Table 3. The proposed form of the working document for the assessment of efficient use of federal
and other resources as part of performance audit in construction companies with state participation
Performance indicators
of financial events or conditions for the existence of a threat to the going concern, in our
opinion, should be started with the analysis of the statement of changes in capital.
Stages of performance audit
Collection and analysis of evidence representing sufficient actual data and reliable
information
Ways to obtain and methods to examine actual data and information
Conclusions
Recommendations
Preparation of a report on the results
Control of the execution of the performance audit results
Figure 2. Organization and methodology of performance audit in construction companies with state
participation
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of based
on the analysis of the net assets held by suppositive modeled construction companies with state
participation (PJSC Stroymontazh, PJSC Nadezhda, PJSC Avtostroy, and PJSC Rosstroy) for
2017 are presented in Table 4.
Table 4. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of based on
the analysis of the net assets held by the construction companies with state participation (PJSC
Stroymontazh, PJSC Nadezhda, PJSC Avtostroy, and PJSC Rosstroy) for 2017
There is a threat to There is no threat
Company under the going concern to the going Conclusion
№ Line code
audit – negative net concern – positive (no threat/threat)
assets net assets
PJSC No threat to the
1. 3600 - 20,150,714
Stroymontazh going concern
No threat to the
2. PJSC Nadezhda 3600 - 4,237,344,000
going concern
No threat to the
3. PJSC Avtostroy 3600 - 316,214,108
going concern
1400-1500-
1600+1530-1170 No threat to the
4. PJSC Rosstroy - 1,059,918,453
(calculated based on going concern
the balance sheet)
In this case, a company’s net assets were taken to determine whether there is any threat to
the going concern. Net assets constitute the real value of a company’s assets, which is
calculated annually and excludes debt, i.e. the difference between the company’s assets and
liabilities. A positive number means that there is no threat, a negative number means that there
is a threat.
Of the aforementioned construction companies with state participation, the highest value
of net assets is held by PJSC Nadezhda, while PJSC Stroymontazh holds the lowest value.
Consequently, PJSC Nadezhda is characterized by the strongest standing.
However, based on the obtained audit evidence, one can conclude that the positive number
of net assets held by all companies under audit excludes a threat to the going concern. There is
no doubt that the organizations can maintain the continuity of business.
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of based
on the data from its Balance Sheet and Statement of Changes in Capital for 2017 are given in
Table 5.
Table 5. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Stroymontazh in 2017
RUB Conclusion
№ Item Line code Assessment criterion
thousand (threat/no threat)
3600, Statement of Net assets > charter capital
1 Net assets 20,150,714
Changes in Capital – there is a threat
Threat
Net assets < charter capital
2 Charter capital 1310, Balance Sheet 83,254
– there is no threat
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Nadezhda based on the data from its Balance Sheet and Statement of Changes in Capital for
2017 are given in Table 6.
Table 6. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Nadezhda in 2017
Conclusion
№ Item Line code RUB thousand Assessment criterion
(threat/no threat)
3600, Statement of Net assets > charter
1 Net assets 4,237,344
Changes in Capital capital – there is a
threat
Threat
Net assets < charter
2 Charter capital 1310, Balance Sheet 2,144,315
capital – there is no
threat
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Avtostroy based on the data from its Balance Sheet and Statement of Changes in Capital for
2017 are given in Table 7.
Table 7. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Avtostroy in 2017
Conclusion
№ Item Line code RUB thousand Assessment criterion
(threat/no threat)
3600, Statement of Net assets > charter
1 Net assets 377,165,818
Changes in Capital capital – there is a
threat
Threat
Net assets < charter
2 Charter capital 1310, Balance Sheet 12,285,499
capital – there is no
threat
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Rosstroy based on the data from its Balance Sheet and Statement of Changes in Capital for
2017 are given in Table 8.
Table 8. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern of PJSC
Rosstroy in 2017
Conclusion
№ Item Line code RUB thousand Assessment criterion
(threat/no threat)
3600, Statement of Net assets > charter
1 Net assets 1,059,918,453
Changes in Capital capital – there is a
threat
Threat
Net assets < charter
2 Charter capital 1310, Balance Sheet 97,231,067
capital – there is no
threat
Based on the analysis of performance audit of the enterprises one can determine whether
there is a threat to the going concern of PJSC Stroymontazh, PJSC Nadezhda, PJSC Avtostroy
and PJSC Rosstroy since the analysis the net assets indicators are higher than their charter
capitals indicators (20,150,714 > 83,254; 4,237,344 > 2,144,315; 377,165,818 > 12,285,499
and 1,059,918,453 > 97,231,067, respectively).
Next, we will analyze the operation of construction companies with state participation
based on the condition “Presence of negative operating cash flows” using their Cash Flow
Statements for 2017.
Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern upon
analysis of the condition “Negative operating cash flows” based on the Cash Flow Statements
of construction companies with state participation (PJSC Stroymontazh, PJSC Nadezhda, PJSC
Avtostroy, and PJSC Rosstroy) for 2017 are presented in Table 9.
Table 9. Proposals on assessment of the presence/absence of a threat to the going concern upon
analysis of the condition “Negative operating cash flows” based on the Cash Flow Statement of
construction companies with state participation (PJSC Stroymontazh, PJSC Nadezhda, PJSC
Avtostroy, and PJSC Rosstroy) for 2017
Threat to going concern – No threat to going
Conclusion:
Economic entity Line code negative operating cash concern – positive
(threat/no threat)
flows operating cash flows
PJSC Stroymontazh 4100 - 1,868,081 No threat
PJSC Nadezhda 4100 - 202,494 No threat
Cannot be
PJSC Avtostroy 4100 n/a n/a
determined
PJSC Rosstroy 4100 -44,953,345 - Threat
With regard to the two the given construction companies with state participation (PJSC
Stroymontazh and PJSC Nadezhda), there is no threat to the going concern since their operating
cash flows total 1,868,081,000 RUB and 202,494,000 RUB respectively. As for PJSC
Rosstroy, there is a threat to the going concern since its operating cash flow equals -
44,953,345,000 RUB. It is not possible to determine if there is a threat to the going concern of
PJSC Avtostroy since its Cash Flow Statement for 2017 is not available, which raises doubt
about the efficiency of its operations since the company is state-owned and operates using
funds from the state budget, which, in turn, is accumulated by taxpayer funds.
In conclusion, we examined the features of a performance audit of construction companies
with state participation conducted by both the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation and
auditing firms. Each of these institutions conducts an audit within a specified area of business,
however, in the situation under study, their authorities overlap.
Moreover, there is also the problem of the low level of methodological support of Russian
supervisory authorities at the level of the performance audit. In connection to this, we have set
forth a number of relevant proposals [11-15].
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