PhD,
Associate Professor, Aksenov E.P.,
Kuzbass State Technical
University, Russia
IMPROVEMENT
OF THE METHODOLOGY OF FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
The methodology of financial management as positively meaningful field
of scientific knowledge of the economic reality is in the process of continuous
improvement and development. Analysis of the theory of financial management
literature indicates that announced in the title of the object of research is
not fully reflective of its contents. This concept of financial management
usually based on the partial use of common management functions, such as the
control and regulation of key financial indicators, economic proportions of
commercial organizations that did not reflect completely the content of
financial management procedures.
As practice shows, this shortcoming is constantly trying to resolve the
most demanding developers and financial management in subsequent editions of
the educational and methodical literature, pornographies, complementing their
respective sections. In addition, at present are successfully developing
complex management categories such as: engineering, organizing, monitoring,
controlling, reengineering, which require adequate reflection in the theory of
financial management, clarify their essence, role, value, structural
relationship in the management of modern finance.
Research methodology and
practice of management financial relations conducted by the author in the last
twenty years has shown that domestic managers and professionals tend to be haphazardly,
often intuitive, deeply without economic sense and expediency, emit different
amounts of scientific approaches, management functions differently, treating
their quality links. Modern theory and
practice of financial management is not adequately and clearly reflects
systemic, structural relationship, hierarchical subordination principal
categories of financial management, despite numerous declarations on the
importance of a systematic methodology for effective social and economic
development at all levels.
Different researchers have from two to twenty common management
functions. Virtually every study devoted to the problems of management,
explicitly or implicitly as is its list of common management functions.
Unfortunately, very often you can hear the correct answer to the question, what
is the difference between the financial management functions of the finance
functions. Sometimes even in publications in reputable journals do not share
them, mix.
Despite these additions,
the modern theory of financial management is incomplete, does not give clear
answers about the composition, the structure of general scientific approaches,
management functions, which are of fundamental importance for the formation of
an effective methodology, quality, financial performance and, therefore, quite
logically needs to be further improved, detailed elaboration, operational
implementation of necessary innovative additions, changes.
In domestic financial
management theory and practice, this situation is largely due to the costs of
radical paradigm shifts fast social and economic development of Russia in the
process of transition to a market economy, when the total negation of dominant
ideology resulted in partial or complete non-recognition of the previous
positive experience, achievements in the development of the general theory of
management. Unfortunately, it often prompts him to please now institutionalism
and theories of self-regulation was marginalized system methodology,
questioning the effectiveness of economic-mathematical modeling. The
institutionalism is often attributed to the miraculous, magical properties. Although
the institutionalism, in fact, is just one of the necessary signs of large
complex socio-economic systems and society really have its material substrates,
not just ideal images.
In these circumstances, as
the practice shows, even the discerning Explorer the difficult understanding of
the correctness of the proposed modern economic, financial concepts, evaluate
the truthfulness, correctness, adequacy of scientific views of general trends
in world development, objective laws, scientific principles of financial
management. It is therefore particularly important task is to increase the
overall culture of scientific research, ensure their continuity, formation,
development, preserving the best traditions of the Russian leading economic
research schools, including funding of scientific School of Kuzbass State
Technical University, which is the leader of the reference formulation of
financial theory and methodology.
By
investigating the General epistemological, ontological problems of cognition I.R. Prigogine, compellingly
demonstrated that when describing the processes of different nature inevitably
uses the concept of "performing ant derivatives in role of principium,
necessary to determine the essence of phenomena and processes, harmonize
focused interaction elements of the system of internal and external environment,
including the control function and the general socio-economic processes. In
this connection, it is noted that they are not known a priori, but whenever we
need to make sure that our existence is consistent with the description.
Analyzing
the common mistakes of researchers, he has stressed that failure is primarily
due to the fact that as part of the agreement, you cannot use the unordered
set, such as a pile of building materials instead of the Church. That is when
the scientific facts are considered by researchers without proper relationships
and Codependence. Therefore rightly considered that elements of ant derivatives
in thinking enable the phenomenon to the whole, to present it correctly in the
general picture of the cognition of the essence. While in the process of
creating a mental premise of researcher, studying the diverse socio-economic reality,
often sliding to the subjective way of objective reality. The main thing is
that the world, which works through us, remains commensurate with requirements
for humanitarian interpretation was compatible with personal and universal
equivalency.
It should be stressed that the common methods and functions of the
Office of financial and economic relations are the expression of a
multi-faceted systematic methodology which, in effect, represents a
philosophies of management that enables you to effectively implement the mental
transition from abstract truths to the specific content of the elemental
composition of the whole. Thus it helps convert complex category in more simple
terms, tangible truths, in essence, being a general scientific paradigm, the quintessential
financial science, despite some doubts about the individual authors.
Methodological basis needed to achieve rapid socio-economic development
on the basis of scientific and technical progress, the use of innovative
technologies, improving, implementing effective financial management is
systematic-functional concept, which is essentially an axiomatic model, in
which a terminological research methods, effective financial and economic
systems. Systems theory gives a rigorous mathematical definition of the subject
of the study, that is, the notion of financial and economic system, from which
derives the entity role, the importance of the functions of financial
management. In this sense, the
definition of a system, in fact, is the formalization of the notion of context,
which is revealed through the notion of function as purposeful activity.
On the basis of a common definition of the term "governance"
as the focus, as well as in the philosophy of one of the main issues is the
question of the primacy of existence or consciousness in the general theory of
management, including the financial, the main issue is the essence,
significance, role, structure of management functions. That question always
comes down to defining the necessary and sufficient, structure of universal and
targeted action, i.e. General management functions.
Only the implementation of a specific sequence of necessary and
sufficient number of target functions naturally leads to the realization of the
interests of management. That is, for all time and stood in front of the
managing subject is one and the same question: "what needs to be done to
achieve the objective?" that is, what you need to implement actions –
functions to achieve its goal, to solve these challenges on the basis of
existing production, labor, financial resources. Moreover, these challenges
need to be addressed in the most rational manner, such that the lowest cost of
living and materialized labor, working time.
This approach derives from the systematic-functional picture environment
socio-economic reality, the essence of "homo sapiens", especially as
"homo functus", i.e. active human. Therefore, man has always valued
for it, not by words and intentions. Therefore, functions and operation are
mandatory, required the most intrinsic characteristic property, without which
the concept of "socio-economic system" simply does not exist, has no
common sense.
It should be stressed that this view is not inconsistent with the
process approach to the management of socio-economic systems, because the term
"process" is, first of all, the combination of sustained action aimed
at achieving a particular result. That is, in fact, this definition regards the
process as a combination of functions. In this regard, the financial management
process must be seen as a complex function, management or functional,
consisting of interconnected simple and basic functions of management that are
in a state of system interaction and codependence.
However, you cannot map the dissimilar concepts that do not belong to
the same level of control, co-ordination. Therefore, the functional approach
cannot be combated with, for example, the project approach, because the latter,
in fact, represents the first part, in the form of a specific project.
This view is based on the
systematic-functional methodology that allows you to fully explore all the
significant relationships studied financial phenomena and processes. In fact,
she represents the universal methods of interdisciplinary scientific knowledge
concerning the implementation of integrated-a functional approach to the study
of socio-economic systems, laws, management of financial and economic activities.
Under this approach, the modern scientific knowledge allows you to explore financial
relations, cash flows, both in terms of the internal structure, substrate specificity,
and in terms of subject and object management in relationship to the environment
in the process of implementing the goals and objectives of the management.