Methodical Instruments of Assessment of the Level of Economic Security of Enterprises on the Basis of Use of the Methods of Factor Analysis

The article reveals the essence of main modern concepts of assessment of economic security of enterprises. Based on general provisions of the management theory and having studied scientific sources, the article conducts generalisation of modern scientific approaches to assessment of economic security of enterprises, which allowed allocation of the existing base of fundamental studies on assessment of a certain economic category, but they, unfortunately, do not provide a complete and complex characteristic of economic security of enterprises. The article justifies that the process of purposeful selection of relevant indicators for their use in the process of assessment, in other words formation of the information base that would be used for further study, is an important basis for carrying out assessment of the level of economic security of enterprises. Moreover, information for carrying out such a procedure should correspond with the requirements of authenticity, completeness, importance, timeliness, clarity, etc. The composition of indicators of sub-systems of economic security of an enterprise should reflect its specific nature of activity of each sphere of activity of an enterprise and be adjusted in the course of time. The article offers a methodical approach to assessing the level of economic security on the basis of application of the method of factor analysis. It justifies a necessity of further development of theoretical aspects of economic security. A prospective direction of further studies is determination of main threats to functional components of economic security of enterprises and ways of their reduction or localisation with consideration of the industry belonging.