Enterprises have already felt the toughening of financial constraints and are trying to survive implementing both strategies of market adaptation and different ways to soften these constraints. In general, the attitude towards financial resources has changed.
Money is needed now, enterprise managers try to obtain or earn it.
Enterprises tend to influence the proportion of expenses and incomes, trying first of all to increase the latter. Here also belongs increasing arrears as the strategy for overcoming demand restrictions in the hope that they can be shifted off, at least partly, to state administration bodies. At the same time, enterprises implement strategies which lead to the stabilization of incomes and reduction of expenses. This link is becoming the determinant for decision-making, which was out of the question in the old system of managing state enterprises, and was not typical to their traditional behavior. While establishing production and sales policy, managers take into consideration the requirements of maintaining the normal financial state of companies.