Economic expertise of a business plan as an instrument of control in the financial justification of an investment project

The article substantiates the role of economic expertise of a business plan, the integral part of which is the expertise of financial justification of an investment project, for making a final decision on its implementation. Special attention is devoted to the issue of real investment assessment, which remains controversial. The article underlines that in the course of economic expertise of financial justification of an investment project it is important to take into account that application of risk measures, used to evaluate the financial investment, will have a number of disadvantages if applied as a risk measure for real investment: a company’s market portfolio cannot consist of business investment; it is inappropriate to single out unsystematic and systematic risks; business investment are not traded assets.