The introduction of new wholesale prices on industrial products on January 1, 1982, was one of the measures taken to improve planning and the economic mechanism. Prior to this prices of the year 1967, calculated on the basis of the costs of 1965, were in effect. Since then production conditions...

Profitability is a key cost-accounting category entailed in raising the effectiveness of social production. Views underestimating or exaggerating the role of profitability in solving a broad spectrum of economic production problems have all but disappeared. Under the new conditions of management...

The more active use of prices in the planned management of the economy has increased the need for the interdependence between price formation and national economic planning in its physical and value forms. For a long time, prices were regarded as something formal, while in planning the...