METHODOLOGY, TECHNIQUE, METHOD: THE ESSENCE OF CONCEPTS AND FEATURES OF THEIR MANIFESTATION IN THE SPHERE OF TAX PLANNING, ANALYSIS AND AUDIT

Abstract

The work examines modern scientific approaches to the interpretation of the essence of the concept of "methodology", "methodology", "method", as well as the peculiarities of their manifestation in the field of tax planning, analysis and audit. The authors considered the methodology as a multi-level entity formed from a set of interrelated and hierarchically subordinate components (general scientific methodology based on a combination of philosophy and scientific concept; interdisciplinary methodologies that combine certain fields of knowledge; sectored and disciplinary methodologies, the components of which there are, in particular, the methodologies of tax planning, analysis, and auditing), identified in its composition the laws and main categories of dialectics, general scientific principles and research methods, research methods used in interdisciplinary frameworks and within the study of specific disciplines, laws and categories of individual sciences. It is proposed to define methodology as a systematized set of ideas regarding the use of certain methods within a certain scientific approach, and methodology as a description of the research process itself using various methods (techniques, methods) of research, as well as an established sequence of rules and tools. In the methodology of tax planning, analysis and audit, it is proposed to distinguish a general component (which defines a philosophical approach to understanding the processes and phenomena occurring in the environment, the place and role of tax planning, analysis and audit in it), a special component (principles) and a private component (methods and techniques). The authors singled out the generalized components of the research methodology in the field of tax planning, analysis and audit (formulation of the purpose and tasks of the research; definition of the object, subject of the research, development of indicators; composition of the information base; selection of research methods (techniques, methods); implementation of analytical and audit procedures, planning and forecasting calculations; development of final documentation, interpretation of results, formulation of conclusions; control over the implementation of results), systematized the components of the methodology and summarized the areas of use of tax planning, analysis and audit methods.