Methodological Approaches to Strategic Analysis of Financial Statements

The article aims to study the existing methodological approaches to strategic analysis of financial statements indicators and to prove their relationship with the constituent elements of the business. The paper proves that the substantiation of financial indicators, realized financial transactions and the effectiveness of economic decisions are reached through financial forecasting. Strategic analysis and prognostic evaluation of the effectiveness of a company's activity and the management by its financial resources are an important stage of the prediction. The aim and a sequence of strategic analysis of financial statements indicators are determined. The mechanism of financial statements forecasting is developed and their relationship with the constituent elements of the business is proved. The study of methodological approaches to strategic analysis of financial statements indicators allows to determine predictive financial statements as an integrated predictive and budget information concerning expected future activity of the company. The development of predictive financial statements - projects of future income statement, cash flows statement and balance sheet - is based on forecasts of income, material costs, labor costs, costs of sales and others.