FinExpertiza auditors estimate expenses of Russian businesses at a record 18.9 trillion rubles 07:48

Spending of Russian large and medium-sized companies in the nine months of last year increased by 12%, or 2.1 trillion rubles. amounting to a record 18.9 trillion rubles compared to the same period last year. About Writer “Lenta.ru”, which refers to the work of the audit and consulting company FinExpertiza. As explained in the company, we are talking about commercial and administrative expenses that are not directly related to the production process.

According to the company, the average expenses of Russian enterprises for each company increased by 9.7% during the year. As stated in FinExpertiza, inflation, instability in demand for companies’ products, and increase in production and logistics costs contributed to the increase in costs. But as the auditors say, the growth rate of such costs in 2021 is actually twice as high – at 18.4%.

“Businesses are now trying to save as much as possible in the face of uncertainty,” the company said.

The auditors indicate that the regions with the highest operating expenses in 2022, especially Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kemerovo regions.

As before reported Based on data from the TASS agency, FinExpertiza, 242.1 thousand new companies were opened in Russia last year. At the same time, 280.2 thousand commercial enterprises were closed. Thus, the number of closed companies exceeded the number of opened companies by 38.1 thousand or 13.6%. As the auditors noted, the number of open companies in 2022 increased by 8.6% compared to the previous year. At the same time, the number of businesses closed fell by more than a quarter – 25.1%. The auditors announced that the number of liquidated entities in Russia has decreased for the third year in a row. At the same time, the annual number of registered companies remains approximately at the same level. Experts admitted that the statistics talk about the cleaning of the Russian economy of one-day firms.