INDEX METHOD FOR CALCULATION OF LIMITS FOR WORKING CAPITAL FINANCING
The article considers the factors causing the formation of credit limits. There has been carried out a review of methodological approaches to analysis of credit limits described in domestic economic literature, as well as applied in practice. The advantages and disadvantages of existing methods of determining credit limits have been revealed. It has been pointed out that nowadays in the theory and practice of banking there is no generally accepted method for setting limits. On the basis of the financial model, the nature of the working capital needs of customers and its impact on the need for lending were investigated. The ratios of net working capital and own working capital are considered depending on the nature of the need, financial cycle, business profitability and conditions of settlements with counterparties. A calculation of the working capital need based on the index method is proposed. The methods for calculating the limit of working capital with temporary and permanent working capital need are substantiated. There have been made calculations of the working capital need for options characterized by increasing volumes in production and sales and by changing the terms of settlements with counterparties. The relationship between the revenue growth and the required net working capital is shown. The dynamics of own working capital growth is analyzed. Using the results, the calculation of the limit for revolving financing has been made including a one-time loan for replenishing working capital and a revolving credit line with a debt limit due to the constant need for materials procurement. In the course of analysis there were used general scientific methods and techniques: systemic and logical analysis and synthesis, comparison, building a system of indicators based on vertical and horizontal relationships between them, studying the relationship between effective (generalizing) indicators and quotients, forecasting and extrapolation, the principles of induction and deduction.