Diagnosis of capital structure as a tool for administering the financial activities of enterprises

The development of market transformations in Ukraine has led to the noticeable changes in the sphere of formation and using enterprise capital. Formation of the optimal capital structure, which allows to combine an increase in financial results with the existing risk level, is the main factor of maintaining effective functioning. In this connection, processes of financial activity administration require rethinking and improving the approaches to diagnosis of financing sources both in the theoretical and practical aspects. The aim of the study is to improve the methodological approaches to the diagnosis of enterprise capital structure as an instrument of justifying and making managerial decisions in financial management system on the basis of theoretical approaches and specifying the definition of the term “enterprise financial activity administration”. Methods of scientific cognition were used in the work, in particular: of system approach, analysis, synthesis, scientific abstraction, generalizing. Methods of financial coefficient analysis and Shuhart’s control charts creation were used to carry out capital structure diagnosis on the example of JSC “Zhytlobud-1” (Kharkiv). The author’s vision of the essence of enterprise financial activity administration as a process of developing and implementing managerial decisions was formed, including formation and use of its capital with the aim of financial strength, profitability and creating conditions for fulfillment of obligations, based on information, diagnostic and analytical support for the realization of managerial procedures. It was concluded that diagnosis of capital structure served as the key element in the system of instruments for the administration of enterprise financial activity. The use of Shuhart‘s control charts for diagnosing the capital structure was proposed, and relevant calculations were carried out on the example of JSC “Zhytlobud-1”, the level of manageability of its capital components was assessed, and key management objects in the structure of the company’s financing sources were identified. The results of the research can be useful for scientists, students of economic specialties of higher educational establishments, managers and employees of financial divisions of enterprises and financial institutions