Study of etymology of concept “the economic diagnostics of agricultural enterprises”

Abstract

In the process of economic activity the entities they use a wide methodological toolkit for evaluating their own activities, analyzing the relevant indicators, based on which they make informed management decisions to improve efficiency. Modern business conditions necessitate the use of both applied methodological tools for assessing economic activity, and specific, which depends and is characterized by the affiliation of entities to a specific industry or field of activity, production conditions, use of resource potential, territorial factors, environmental impact, strategic goals, etc. These aspects also apply to the economic activities of agricultural enterprises. Significant attention has been paid to questions of increasing the efficiency of economic activity of agricultural enterprises by agricultural economists for a long period of time. The currently existing set of scientific developments, conceptual approaches, methods and ways of analysis, assessment of economic activity significantly contributes to solving the tasks to improve efficiency, however, the development of theoretical, methodological and practical approaches reveals new problems of modern agricultural enterprises as a socio-economic system, which are influenced by a number of internal and external factors. Ensuring the effective functioning of agricultural enterprises in modern conditions requires the search for new methodological tools, in particular, to methods of research and evaluation of their economic activity. The need for improvement of the existing today and the development of new theoretical, methodological and applied solutions aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the analytical and managerial activities of agricultural enterprises in modern conditions is becoming more clearly apparent. Therefore, taking into account the foregoing, there is a need to use a tool in the management system of agricultural enterprises that will allow for analytical research, to obtain reliable and complete information about economic activities, which will serve as the basis for the development and adoption of effective management decisions. In our opinion, should be such a tool the economic diagnostics.