METHODS OF FINANCIAL REGULATION OF THE ENTERPRISE ACTIVITIES IN THE SYSTEM OF UKRAINE’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT VECTORS
Authors:   Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Voloshyna Oksana 
Published: October 2024

Financial regulation is an important component of long-term planning of domestic enterprises. The purpose of the article is to investigate the methods of financial regulation of the activities of state and economic enterprises in modern society of the financial and economic conditions. The process of financial regulation actively affects all aspects of the enterprise activities through the selection of financing objects, allocation of funds, depending on their targets, promotes rational use of financial resources, involves the development and justification of planned indicators characterizing the development of the economy in the future. The function of financial regulation in the enterprise management system is one of the basic, central functions that determines the final results of production and sales, economic, financial and investment activities. The mission of financial regulation is to identify the enterprise’s general need for financial resources, in the extent that will ensure its normal activity along with the fulfilment of obligations to its creditors, such as banks, the budget, etc. Financial regulation covers the most important aspects of the financial and economic activity of the enterprise, ensures appropriate control over the formation and use of material, labour and monetary resources, creates conditions for strengthening the financial state of the enterprise. The research methodology is based on general research methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, observation and abstraction, which are used to systematize the achievements of the theory and practice of modeling the financial system of enterprises. The results of the study showed that the methods of financial management must be actively used in the activities of state and economic enterprises. There can be distinguished the following types of financial regulation: tactical regulation; strategic regulation. Implementation of financial regulation is carried out on the basis of five consecutive stages: analysis of the financial situation, development of the enterprise’s financial strategy, drafting and adjustment of current financial plans, development of operational financial plans. The process of financial regulation is characterized by the general and special principles. Practical implications. At the state-owned enterprises, the process of financial regulation should be implemented through budgeting. Budgeting is a tool for implementing the strategy of the state-owned enterprise, because it ensures an inextricable connection between strategic goals and plans aimed at achieving them. There are the following principles of budgeting organization: unity, separation of income and expenses, balance, independence, completeness of reflection of income and expenses in the budget, general coverage of expenses, efficiency of the use of funds, reliability. The principles of budgeting are as follows: integration, consistency, regulatory approach, end-to-end budgeting, decomposition, economic integrity, and methodological comparability. The main elements of the budgeting system are as follows: financial structure, budget structure and regulations on budget management. Financial regulation of economic enterprises is carried out on the basis of financial indicators, which are formed in the process of all its activities and determined on a certain specific date. A set of methods for assessing the enterprise’s financial indicators is divided into two groups: express diagnostics and fundamental diagnostics of the stability of business operation. Financial indicators are the state of financial resources, their distribution and use, which ensures the development of the enterprise based on the growth of profit and capital while maintaining solvency and creditworthiness under the conditions of an acceptable level of risk. The data characterizing financial indicators of the enterprise mostly include liquidity and solvency, financial stability, business activity, profitability of the enterprise. In order to obtain complete information about the level of sustainability of the enterprise development, the analysis of the current (operational) financial sustainability and the assessment of the prospects for its preservation in the future are carried out. The enterprise’s liquidity is evaluated according to the following indicators: absolute liquidity ratio, quick liquidity ratio, total liquidity ratio (coverage). The following indicators are used to assess financial stability: coefficient of autonomy (concentration of the equity capital), coefficient of manoeuvrability, coefficient of providing assets with the working capital, debt ratio (the ratio of equity and borrowed capital), leveraged capital structure ratio, coefficient of business activity, profitability ratio. Value/originality. The system of measures for financial regulation of enterprises should provide for constant monitoring of the external and internal state of enterprises, the development of measures to reduce the external vulnerability of enterprises, the development of preparatory plans in case of problematic situations, the implementation of preliminary measures to ensure them, the implementation of plans for practical measures in case of a crisis situation, the adoption of risk and non-standard solutions in case of deviation of the development of the situation, coordination of actions of all participants and control over the implementation of measures and their results.