Assessment of Financial Potential as a Determinant of Enterprise Development

TL;DR

This paper proposes a structured technique for assessing and managing the financial potential of enterprises, aiming to support strategic decision-making and economic development.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mechanism for evaluating and managing enterprise financial potential based on strategic management principles.

Findings

A multi-stage assessment technique for financial potential

A management mechanism linking financial potential to enterprise strategy

Guidelines for forecasting and optimizing financial resource allocation

Abstract

Financial potential is an important part of enterprise activities. The technique of the enterprise's financial potential assessment is offered in the paper. It is presented by particular stages, where each stage is related to a certain task. The characteristics of the company's financial potential, based on the analysis of the related literature, are determined. The implementation of each task is carried out. Thus, the study proposes a mechanism for managing the financial potential of enterprises, which allows to emphasize the elements that can be useful for economic development. It is based on the general strategic principles of the enterprise management. The study results can be used to assess enterprise purposes and develop the formation goals of its financial potential. It can also help to forecast and separate main directions of accumulation, formation, and distribution of financial resources. It should be noted, that analysis and control over the financial potential formation strategy, as well as the use of analysis results for specifying the strategic directions of the enterprise development, are of high importance. Therefore, the management of the financial potential is a system of rational management of business financing, which includes the formation of financial relations, emerging as a result of finance resources flow.