Analysis of currently relevant methods for evaluating an enterprise's ecological and economic security

Economic development of an enterprise implies a sensible balance between high efficiency and sta-bility of business, which after all are responsible for its survival. The research given considers essential is-sues of determining dominant methodological approaches to evaluating an enterprise's ecologo-economical security. The problem of selecting the method for evaluation is given the most attention. The author consid-ered different aspects of the existing methods for diagnosing economic and ecological stability. When inves-tigating the problem, currently relevant methods of security evaluation were classified and the conclusions about their advantages and disadvantages were drawn. It was found that when solving security problems, managers face serious problems because there is a limited set of evaluation methods. The author of the re-search also detected the interconnection between a definite security evaluation method and resource condi-tions, high-performance factors typology. To match these, it was suggested using a universal multilevel crite-rial scale in combination with time diapasons. It was also detected that during the process of selecting an evaluation method, it is necessary to enlarge the range of specific criteria through corporate components. It was suggested that criteria transformation should be objectively allowed and iteration, i.e. multiple repetition of the system's self-diagnostics, should be built into the model of management. In the course of the research it was found that it is rather difficult to select the most adequate evaluation method in a particular situation because there is no logical, universal and easy-to-use selective method. The research results allowed the au thor to derive an algorithm of security evaluation method selection. To make the procedure suggested appli-cable, the most important criteria were identified; these are by the scales of influence and resource re-strictions. Based on the analysis made, characteristics and parameters were classified according to the corre-sponding scales. To test and endorse the methodology proposed, criterial selection of the method was per-formed, that for enterprises of printing and publishing complex of the Crimea; its applicability was con-firmed.