Sheremeta K. Mechanism of Financial Support for International Business.

The thesis is devoted to theoretical and methodological fundamentals of constructing a mechanism of financial support of enterprises' foreign trade activity. The author analyses the nature and approaches to defining enterprises' foreign trade activity, and outlines the main forms of financial support. Within the framework of the research the concepts of "financial resources" and "mechanism of financial support of foreign trade activity" were analyzed. The author has suggested a structural mechanism of financial support of foreign trade activity that enables coherence of financial support organization and foreign trade activity management and by means of appropriate methods, tools, levers and fosters foreign trade activity. The suggested algorithm makes it possible to assess not only the attracted funds, their availability and ways of obtaining but also takes into consideration the process of estimating efficiency of foreign trade activity. This enables entrepreneurs to make reasonable managerial decisions concerning choice of financial sources for foreign trade and validate this activity. The obtained results are aimed at solving tasks of financial support of foreign trade activity and foster efficiency of the whole management system of machine-building enterprises.