Developed in accordance with the programs of disciplines "Information technologies of management" and "Information technologies in the social sphere" for the performance of semester control and laboratory work by students of economic specialties of correspondence form of education , as well as for the organization of independent work of students . The theoretical foundations of database development are considered, namely, the construction of the essence-connection model and its transformation into a relational database model with a further implementation in the MS Access 2002 environment.