EFFICIENCY OF USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FORMATION OF STUDENTS' ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE

The article highlights the possibilities of using interdisciplinary integration by teachers of higher education institutions in preparing students for future professional activities, and describes interdisciplinary integration as a process of harmonizing curricula in the context of unified, continuous and comprehensive development of professional activities. The main part of our article briefly describes the practical significance of the subject "Econometrics" in the preparation of bachelors of economic sciences for future professional activity, which allows to reasonably forecast the economic development of enterprises, study the existing risks and use them to evaluate management decisions. It is also noted the possibility of training students through the introduction of decision-making processes in the conditions of modernization of enterprises, analysis of their economic performance and effective use of econometric methods and models, including modern information technologies, in solving practical problems in this area. The article presents a variety of software products for solving econometric problems using information technologies, including: spreadsheets (MS Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc), statistical software packages (SPSS, STATISTISA, STATGRAPHICS), programs specialized in solving econometric problems (Econometric Views, STADIA, Matrixer 3.4), mathematical packages (Mathcad, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica) and others.