Information component of corporations’ financial environment

Abstract

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the information component of corporations’ financial environment. It has been established that corporate information can be viewed as public information about activities carried out by a corporation, its securities and related transactions. It has been determined that corporate information can be periodical, if the matter concerns a company’s ordinary activities, and special. It has been proved that the financial environment of a corporation can consist of the external direct financial environment, which includes a system of conditions and factors that impact a corporation, and the external indirect financial environment, which characterizes a system of conditions and factors that influence a corporation in the course of its mutual relations with counterparties under financial transactions. It has been established that the distribution of corporate information, especially through mass media, plays an important role.