The aim of the work is to assess the dynamics of short-term accounts payable of agricultural holdings of the Russian Federation in order to identify reserves for using this source of financing for their activities and optimizing liabilities. A relatively low share of short-term accounts payable under balance sheet item 1520 in the structure of liabilities of an average agricultural holding in Russia was revealed. During 2009 – 2022 the size of this article in liabilities averaged only 10.81%. It was determined that the average period of repayment of such debts (average duration of turnover) to suppliers was 1-2 months. In the composition of the entire accounts payable of the studied subjects, the dominance of bank loans and bonded loans was revealed: long-term and short-term. This dominance is explained both by the existence of mechanisms for state subsidizing of the bank loan rate for organizations in the agro-industrial complex, and by the problematic use of alternative sources of financing, for example, by increasing short-term debt to suppliers. In the activities of agricultural holdings, it is problematic to use short-term accounts payable to suppliers as a reserve for financing activities by increasing it due to the inclusion of the main suppliers in the holding structure. Thus, the implementation of such a reserve for optimizing the capital structure of the studied entities is unlikely. Despite the dominance of bank loans in the structure of liabilities of an average agricultural holding in Russia, the share of such types of capital sources gradually decreased over the period under study due to their displacement by their own capital. Despite such a positive trend, the business processes of the studied entities still remain highly dependent on both bank lending and government subsidies for the bank loan rate, which poses a significant risk for such organizations. The high proportion of expensive liabilities of the studied agricultural holdings allows us to conclude that the presence of internal financial problems is still a barrier to the activation of significant investment processes of such entities outside the agribusiness sector. A positive feature of agricultural holdings is revealed to counteract the deliberate creation of non-payments within their structure. Provided that all companies that make up the production and logistics cycles are part of the holding company, this feature protects the entire relevant chain.
The aim of the work is to assess the dynamics of short-term accounts payable of agricultural holdings of the Russian Federation in order to identify reserves for using this source of financing for their activities and optimizing liabilities. A relatively low share of short-term accounts payable under balance sheet item 1520 in the structure of liabilities of an average agricultural holding in Russia was revealed. During 2009 – 2022 the size of this article in liabilities averaged only 10.81%. It was determined that the average period of repayment of such debts (average duration of turnover) to suppliers was 1-2 months. In the composition of the entire accounts payable of the studied subjects, the dominance of bank loans and bonded loans was revealed: long-term and short-term. This dominance is explained both by the existence of mechanisms for state subsidizing of the bank loan rate for organizations in the agro-industrial complex, and by the problematic use of alternative sources of financing, for example, by increasing short-term debt to suppliers. In the activities of agricultural holdings, it is problematic to use short-term accounts payable to suppliers as a reserve for financing activities by increasing it due to the inclusion of the main suppliers in the holding structure. Thus, the implementation of such a reserve for optimizing the capital structure of the studied entities is unlikely. Despite the dominance of bank loans in the structure of liabilities of an average agricultural holding in Russia, the share of such types of capital sources gradually decreased over the period under study due to their displacement by their own capital. Despite such a positive trend, the business processes of the studied entities still remain highly dependent on both bank lending and government subsidies for the bank loan rate, which poses a significant risk for such organizations. The high proportion of expensive liabilities of the studied agricultural holdings allows us to conclude that the presence of internal financial problems is still a barrier to the activation of significant investment processes of such entities outside the agribusiness sector. A positive feature of agricultural holdings is revealed to counteract the deliberate creation of non-payments within their structure. Provided that all companies that make up the production and logistics cycles are part of the holding company, this feature protects the entire relevant chain.