PUBLIC FINANCES' TRANSPARENCY AS A FACTOR OF ENSURING THE STATE'S FINANCIAL SECURITY

Abstract

Attention to the topic of transparency of public finances today is growing worldwide. It is generally accepted that transparency in the field of public finances is one of the key tools for ensuring good governance, which in turn contributes to improving the financial security of the state. In general, transparency is understood as full, reliable, timely and systematic disclosure of all important information and implies free access to it, as well as comprehensibility for all citizens of the state. This article examines the impact of transparency of financial relations at the public level in today's digital environment on the components of financial security. As a result, it was established that at the state level the components of financial security are banking security, security of the non-banking financial sector, debt security, budget security, currency security, monetary security. Research on various sources of information has determined that central banks must be properly accountable to legislators and society, as transparency is a key element of this social responsibility. In turn, the impact of transparency on the financial security of the non-banking financial sector is manifested in an increase in confidence in non-banking market institutions. For its part, maintaining the regulatory level of public debt, as well as its most efficient spending is the main task of the authorities, so based on this, it is necessary to constantly monitor public debt, which can be provided only in conditions of transparency. A significant role in shaping the financial security of the state belongs to the provision of budget security indicators, which are primarily influenced by the principles of transparency of budgetary relations. For this purpose, information portals were created: “Unified web portal for the use of public funds” and “State web portal of the budget for citizens”. The next component of financial security is currency security, ensuring publicity and transparency of which is part of the functions of the NBU. In the current context of globalization and informatization of society in order to reduce undesirable synergies in the monetary system, one of the ways to improve the monetary policy of the National Bank should be to increase the transparency of foreign exchange transactions, which increases financial security. Thus, ensuring the transparency of public finances should be the main task of the authorities, which will increase the financial security of the state and provide access to open budget data for the public, as well as enable their active participation in the budget process.