Leasing potential of an industrial enterprise: concept, methods of assessment and management

Effective management of the leasing process at an industrial enterprise sets the scientific and production community the task of identifying the leasing potential, studying the resulting cash flows that affect it and developing measurable evaluation indicators in comparison with the flows of an alternative financing scheme. Accumulated in the modern economic science a methodological experience of the evaluation of the lease potential of industrial enterprises is reduced to the dimension of the leasing capacity of the potential lessee or region and does not allow to use this tool in the system management of the leasing process within a structural space of an industrial enterprise in terms of functioning in terms of technological platforms and networked business models. The article is aimed at research to eliminate the methodological gap in the assessment of the leasing climate of the enterprise, as a sign of the structure-forming space of the leasing process management system. The author proposes the author’s definition of the leasing potential and proposes the key parameters of the leasing agreement that affect its value. The article presents methodological tools for assessing the leasing potential on the basis of cash flows generated during the leasing process and alternative credit financing flows, which allows to diagnose the leasing potential of an industrial enterprise.