Models of Forecasting in the Mechanism of Early Informing and Prevention of Financial Crises in Corporate Systems

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problem of preventing financial crises in corporate systems, whose activities are becoming more and more complex in the context of globalization. The mechanism of early informing and crisis prevention in corporate systems is proposed, and includes five main modules: an analysis of the financial condition of the corporation, an analysis of the financial condition of subsidiaries, an evaluation of the impact of the financial crisis on a subsidiary on the threat of bankruptcy of the corporation as a whole, forecasting the financial condition of subsidiaries and corporation as a whole, anti-crisis management. The first four modules of the mechanism are the modules of implementation of proactive crisis management in the corporation, aimed at preventing the emergence of a crisis state, both in individual elements and in the corporate system as a whole. The fifth module is used in conditions of the current negative estimation of the financial condition of the corporation, and it is a "response" to existing crisis processes and phenomena in the corporation. After its implementation during the process of monitoring of the financial condition, proactive control modules are started to be used to allow early diagnosis and to prevent a crisis state. Particular attention is paid to such modules of proactive management as the evaluation of the impact of financial crises of subsidiaries on bankruptcy of the corporations as a whole and forecasting financial crises. A model basis for these two modules was developed. Neural networks, the mathematical apparatus of fuzzy logic, and the Caterpillar method were used for developing the models of estimation of the crisis threat in the corporate system. The developed set of models allowed to estimate the threat of financial crises in the parent enterprise and in the subsidiaries of the corporation, not only in the current but also in the perspective periods. The obtained results indicate that the financial condition of the investigated corporation is characterized by low level of the bankruptcy threat. Along with this, there is an increase in the threat of bankruptcy in a number of subsidiaries in the perspective period and the strong impact of local crises on the financial position of the corporation as a whole. The latter leads to the need of implementation of the anti-crisis measures in the corporate structure. An adequate tool for choosing anti-crisis measures and developing scenarios for the implementation of the anti-crisis management strategy is simulation modelling based on the concept of system dynamics.