«Undeserved Profit» Problem on Modern Russia’s Resource Markets

One of the main problems at commercial accounting of resources (natural gas, electric energy, heat, water) is discrepancy of registered volumes (quantity) of delivered (supplied) and consumed (paid) resource. Stated treats not only a resource, but also an accounting of deliveries related to any kind of goods which quantity is defined and considered by means of measuring tools (packaging of loose products, supply of gasoline from a plant at a gas station, its further realization to consumers, etc.). It is accepted to call a discrepancy of specified volumes as imbalance. Its consequence is either an incomplete settlement of consumers with a supplier (supplier’s damage and consumers’ “undeserved profit”), or, on the contrary, consumers’ overpayment for delivered resource (supplier’s “undeserved profit” and consumers’ damage). Therefore, the resource imbalance can be classified as one of the most important economic indicators of any resource supplying process since the economic efficiency of activity of companies and organizations delivering and realizing resources to consumers depends directly on the resource imbalance value.