Abstract

The fundamental problems of pricing and product costing and main trends in solving these problems are examined considering the lack of a current base of procedural guidelines and substantial controversy of norms and requirements of the existing guidelines that regulate price and costs determination according to costing items for industrial products. A special emphasis in solving the problems is placed on the development of project management principles at industrial enterprises, modern implementation of the principles of product life cycle management, supporting the use of competitive mechanisms for cost cutting, applying modern methods and management tools of product quality control, improvement of industry experts training.