Volgograd: VolSU Publishing House, 2015. — 60 s . — ISBN 978-5-9669-1425-7In the teaching manual, the whole process of preparing a course work, a final qualifying work, a master's thesis from the choice of a topic to public defense . is considered. The purpose and objectives, the sequence and content of the stages of this process, the requirements for the design of works, the rights and obligations of students and scientific leaders are disclosed. The annexes present standard forms of documentation support for the preparation and protection of coursework, final qualifying work, master's thesis . When preparing the manual, the experience of scientific leadership in the Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University . was used. The manual is intended for students of universities of all forms of education, studying in the economic directions of preparation of bachelors and masters, first of all 080100 "Economics", 080200 "Management", 080400 "Personnel Management", 050100 "Pedagogical Education", and their scientific supervisors . It can also be used by students of other economic specialties.