This article identifies general professional training as a subsystem in professional training aimed at the formation of general professional competencies of economists by orienting the content and the learning process towards solving general professional tasks. General
professional tasks determine the content and logic of economic activity in planning, calculation, analysis, management (justification of the effectiveness of the solution chosen, communication) and are basic for various types of training of future economists. The task approach allows university teachers to design a set of professional training tasks based on various contexts and form the ability of students to organize activities for the economic
justification of making managerial decisions in various professional areas, quickly respond to changes, get to know about the processes abroad. The example of a professional training task for future economists is considered.