Figure 7. Number of employed workers in small enterprise
in Ukraine in 2010 - 2017, thousand people
Source: Developed by authors on the basis of [9]
In the period from 2012 to 2017 an increase in the share of expenses of small
enterprise entities (almost 3% in 2017 compared to the base indicator in 2012) in the
total expenses of enterprise entities was recorded, which is a negative tendency and
shows that, in the first place, on the increase of the profitability of production and the
intensification of inflationary processes in the economy (Fig. 8).
Figure 8. Share of expenses of small enterprise entities in total expenses
of business entities in Ukraine in 2010-2017, %
Source: Developed by authors based on [9]
As another quantitative attribute, we used the cost of production of goods (goods,
services) of small enterprise entities (Fig. 9).
During the analysis, there has been an increase in the volume of production costs
of small enterprise (production costs more than doubled in 2017 relative to the indicator
in 2012), which is objectively due to inflationary processes in the country and the
devaluation of the national monetary unit, rather than an increase in real volumes of
economic activities in real terms. At the same time, it should be noted that the volume
of sales of products by small enterprises in value terms increased from 2010 to 2017
by 165%, with a rapid increase of this indicator for 2015-2017 (Figure 10).
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788,9
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795,3
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employed workers in small enterprise
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