Sectoral Characteristics of Housing Utilities, Fundamentally Influencing the Construction of Information Systems of Accounting and Control

The purpose of this article is to summarize the specificities of housing and communal services, which principally affect the construction of effective information systems of accounting and control in the studied industry, which are directed to satisfying multiple information needs of operational management, regulation by Government and owners, control by civil society. Sectoral characteristics of housing and communal services, which were determined by scientists-predecessors, were systematized. Industry characteristics, which today are fundamentally influenced to the specificity of management of the studied sector, and to information requirements to the systems of accounting and control, that provide such management with the necessary data, were specified. System of mutually consistent and interdependent units of technological and economic characteristics of industry, as the basis for building effective systems of accounting and control, directed to the information needs of a broad range of diverse users of data on the provision of housing services, was proposed. It was concluded that application of the proposed approach allows to provide, firstly, a holistic selection of the studied industry, among other sectors of the economy, and secondly, the building and development of information systems of accounting and control of performers of housing and communal services directed to certain informational requirements, provides the opportunity to ensure the transparency of management of housing and communal services as the basic requirements of a modern state policy in the housing sphere.