Financial Flexibility as a Phenomenon of Manifestation of Flexibility of the Financial System at the Micro-level

Laktionova Oleksandra A. ()
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Laktionova Oleksandra A.: Donetsk National University

Business Inform, 2014, issue 3, 301_310

Abstract: The article considers financial flexibility of economic subjects in the context of specific features of manifestation of this property at the micro-level of the financial system. It generalises various theoretical approaches to understanding the essence of the financial flexibility in the context of motives of its formation, sources and instruments of realisation. It specifies criteria of financial flexibility: manoeuvrability, efficiency and economy. It studies interrelation between the financial flexibility and financial restrictions at the micro-level and, consequently, factors that determine them: capital market imperfection, development level and structure of the financial system, cyclicity of economy, and company characteristics (including financial architecture). The article describes their distinguishing features. It states that apart from maintaining the financial flexibility during formation of money reserves and debt load resource the companies can be guided by other motives. It offers classification of types of financial flexibility based on the sources and goals of formation, influence upon the financial potential, stages of reproduction of financial resources, the instruments used, engaged elements of the financial mechanism, stages of the business cycle and types of the used financial resources.

Keywords: financial flexibility; micro-level of the financial system; financial restrictions; capital structure; financial development; financial market imperfection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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