Assessing the level of access to financial resources for small and medium-sized businesses

The aim of the article is to assess the real situation regarding the availability of small and medium enterprises to financial resources and the development of activities aimed at leveling the negative factors in their development, which subsequently have to improve the situation regarding the availability of financial resources.The problem of the availability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to finance has become particularly relevant in the difficult and unstable period of socio-economic and political relations of the Ukrainian economy. Studies have shown that for the leveling of negative factors in the development of SMEs, consider the state anti-crisis policy aimed at balancing the budget, tax and fiscal policies to support domestic business, which is, first and foremost, is to improve the situation regarding the availability of SMEs to finance . In this regard, it is proposed to develop a "road map to ensure SMEs' access to finance", whose strategic goal should be to build an effective integrated public credit and financial policies for the development and support of the SME sector in Ukraine.