№ 2019/2
Economy under the conditions of modern transformations
ZYMOVETS Vladyslav Victorovych1
1Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NAS of Ukraine
The companies’ excessive receivables: causes of emergence and consequences for Ukraine’s financial system
ABSTRACT ▼
In accordance with the established approach, excessive receivables are a mani-festation of the crisis situation with inter-company settlements whose fundamental reason is the lack of liquidity and capital in the economy. Freezing cash into re-ceivables slows down capital flows in the economy, generates systemic risks and negatively affects the companies' investment activities. In this article, excessive receivables are defined as the excess of the share of receivables in assets over its normal level, which is typical for a particular country's model of business financing, with due regard to sector specificity.
The author analyzes causes and consequences of the abnormally high amounts of receivables in Ukraine. Among the reasons for excessive receivables in the assets of Ukrainian companies are low payment discipline and difficulties in recovering debts, whose manifestations include a large proportion of overdue and bad debts. The emphasis is made on slowing settlements and increasing burden of receivables in the country.
Decomposition of aggregated receivables for goods, works and services based on company size shows a shift in the non-payment burden towards small and me-dium-sized businesses, whose manifestation is the extension of repayment terms. At the same time, more than a half of the receivables in Ukraine's companies accounts for other receivables that is not directly related to the companies' operative acrivities, which is one of the manifestations of business financialization.
Compared to foreign countries, the above share in Ukraine is abnormally high, due to the active use of shadow loan capital schemes by companies, including the laundering of "dirty" funds and the injection of capital from offshore to support business liquidity. Solving the problem of excessive receivables requires overcom-ing the existing liquidity shortage in Ukraine, increasing money supply based on gradual reduction of this government debt dependence and restoring business con-fidence in the banking system of Ukraine.
The publication is prepared for the implementation of the planned topic of the Department of Finances of the Reals Sector in the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: "Financial Risks of Doing Business in Ukraine: Sector of Nonfinancial Corporations" (state registration No 0118U006088).
Keywords: corporate finances, accounts receivable, monetary policy, financial system, liquidity
JEL: E, G 3
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