Financial consulting as a mechanism for ensuring economic security of an enterprise

The article is devoted to the consideration of financial consulting as a tool for ensuring the economic security of an enterprise. The logic of achieving the purpose of the article is based on the consideration of the following chain of theories: meta-theory of economic order, intertheory of economic security, substantive theory of industry markets (in the field of financial consulting). This approach has allowed both to focus on the consistent hierarchical transformation of the research subject, and to substantiate the relationship between financial consulting and economic security, financial consulting and marketing (through a complex of innovative marketing). For this purpose, the research has successfully implemented methods of analysis and synthesis (to identify the components of the meta-theory of economic order and its conceptual provisions), the method of logical synthesis (to substantiate individual substantive theories, the provisions of which affect the development of financial consulting and, as a result, economic security), abstraction and deduction (to substantiate financial consulting tools and considering them as possible components of the mechanism for ensuring economic security). The logical conclusion of the article, which aggregates the consideration of financial consulting as a mechanism for ensuring economic security, is the proposal to create regional centers for its development. Based on this, it is justified that such centers will, at a minimum, contribute to improving the consulting climate by forming an effective system of legal regulation of consulting activities, activating the activities of professional associations of consultants, and creating a unified information system about consulting firms.