Legal Audit of Corporate Documents
A task. The activities of any enterprise must be carried out in accordance with the law, this aspect is one of the fundamental in the safety of the company's activities. To establish this compliance, a legal audit of corporate documents is carried out, which is the subject of research in the article. The legal audit of corporate documents for their compliance with the requirements of the current legislation is a check of the legal protection of the company, its management and employees in order to assess the compliance of legally significant documents regulating the actions and relationships of the company with the current legislation, as well as to identify vulnerable points of providing corporate documents to the business, without which the company faces financial losses, administrative and criminal liability. Model. The article proposes a classification of corporate documents, presents the procedure for conducting a legal audit of corporate documents for their compliance with the requirements of current legislation and possible typical violations detected during its implementation. Conclusions. The direction studied in the article is an important line in the company's activities due to the fact that all the processes of its functioning are not possible without the participation of corporate documents, and their legality is a security measure of the legality of the company's life. At the same time, this area of audit has not been fully investigated and presented for practical application. The measures proposed in the article will improve the procedure for conducting a legal audit of corporate documents for compliance with the current legislation, as well as systematize existing requests from company managers regarding the use of methods of checking this area for preventive purposes in the organization's activities. Practical significance. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the conclusions obtained and the proposed fundamentals of the methodology of legal audit of corporate documents for their compliance with the requirements of current legislation are the core for developing optimal positions of constituent, administrative and other corporate documents, as well as regular monitoring of their updating and rationality of formation. Originality. The uniqueness of this article is due to the fact that both legislative acts and scientific literature pay little attention to the composition of corporate documents and key aspects of the methodology of their legal audit.