Information agency Credinform offers a ranking of the largest companies for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings, being the largest in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. The companies with the largest volume of annual revenue (TOP-10) were selected for the ranking, according to the data from the Statistical Register for the latest available periods (for 2015 and 2016). Then they were ranked by equity turnover ratio in 2016 (Table 1). The analysis is based on data of the Information and Analytical system Globas.

Equity turnover ratio (times) is calculated as a relation of revenue to annual average sum of equity and demonstrates the company’s usage rate of all available assets.

Equity turnover ratio reflects the turnover rate of own capital. The high value of this indicator indicates the effectiveness of use of own funds. Accordingly, low ratio value indicates about inaction of the part of own funds.

The experts of the Information agency Credinform, taking into account the actual situation both in the economy as a whole and in sectors, has developed and implemented in the Information and Analytical system Globas the calculation of practical values of financial ratios that can be recognized as normal for a particular industry. For companies for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings the practical value of the equity turnover ratio was from 9,36 in 2016.

For getting of the most comprehensive and fair picture of the financial standing of an enterprise it is necessary to pay attention to all combination of indicators and financial ratios.

The average indicator of the equity turnover ratio of TOP-10 companies in 2016 is above the practical value. Two from TOP-10 enterprises have the ratio value above the practical one and eight enterprises - below (are marked with green and orange fillings in columns 6 and 7 in Table 1, respectively). Only two firms succeeded increasing the indicators of equity turnover in 2016 (are marked with green filling in column 7 in Table 1).

Eight from the TOP-10 companies reduced revenue or net profit indicators in 2016 in comparison with the previous period or have a loss (are marked with green and red fillings in columns 3 and 5 in Table 1).

Picture 1. Equity turnover ratio and revenue of companies for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings, being the largest in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia (TOP-10)

The industry average values of the equity turnover ratio tend to increase over the past seven years. It can point to an increase of the efficiency of use of company’s own funds in this field of activity (Picture 2).

Picture 2. Change in the average industry values of the equity turnover ratio of the Russian companies for the construction of residential and non-residential buildings in 2007 – 2016

All TOP-10 companies got the Superior and High or Strong and Medium solvency index Globas, that testifies to their ability to repay their debt obligations timely and fully.

According to the Federal Law of 30.10.2017 №312-FL «On amendments to the Federal Law «On the state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs…» electronic documents, signed with encrypted and certified digital signature (ECDS), should be sent on e-mail of legal entities (LE) or individual entrepreneurs (IE). E-mails should be previously listed to the state register or noted by submission of documents to the registration authorities.

At the request of the applicants registration authorities can give applicants or their representatives paper documents оf the state registration that verify the content of electronic documents.

While sending documents to the registration authorities by means of multifunctional centers or notary officers (at the applicants` request), documents can be additionally sent in the electronic form, signed with ECDS, to the corresponding multifunctional centers or notary officers.

Also, at the request of the applicants, multifunctional centers or notary officers can issue paper documents, verifying the content of the electronic documents received from the registration authorities.

According to the amendments, any person has a right to request information in relation to legal entities or individual entrepreneurs about facts of documents provision to the registration authorities by means of official web-sites on the Internet. Registration authorities should fulfill such request during 1 work day.

It is possible to provide documents for the state registration for the second time without paying an additional state tax after reasons for the state registration refusal are eliminated.

Provision of documents with unreliable information is included in the list of reasons for the state registration refusal.

Rules of sending of refusal decisions are the same as for the state registration documents.

Our publications from June 16, 2017 and August 5, 2016 were dedicated to the topic of check on reliability of data from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities

Besides, our publications in 2015 – 2017 were dedicated to the changes in the legislation of the state registration of legal entities: «Changes in state registration procedure of legal entities», «New data in the Unified Federal Register of legally significant data about the facts of the activities of legal entities» , «Amendments to legislation concerning enforcement of creditors’ rights and legal interests in bankruptcy cases of legal entities».