The Early Warning Tests as a Methodology of Estimating the Level of Economic Security of the Motor Transport Enterprises

Abstract

The article is aimed at developing a methodology for estimating the economic security of the motor transport enterprises taking into view their specific activities. Today, the problems of ensuring economic security of the transport industry acquires special importance, because on the stability of its functioning and development depends the growth of the national economy of Ukraine as a whole. In the face of considerable disagreements and ambiguity in the views of academic economists, the issue of developing an effective mechanism for ensuring economic security of the motor transport enterprises remains topical. The result of the research is the presented process of formation and the described algorithm of carrying out the early warning tests, defined as the system of comparison of actual performance indicators with the recommended level of values for the MTE. This methodology allows to estimate comprehensively and the most objectively the real level of economic security of the MTE in order to identify and strengthen the vulnerable areas of enterprise. On the basis of the data obtained, a complex of measures to improve the level and ensuring the economic security of the motor transport enterprises will be developed in future.

Keywords

• economic security of motor transport enterprises
• early warning tests
• estimating the level of economic security
• performance indicators of enterprise