Modernization of enterprise financial statements in the digital economy

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Abstract: The article highlights the importance of modernizing financial reporting as a key factor in enhancing the competitiveness of business entities in the digital environment. Emphasis is placed on the need to adapt the methods of preparing and presenting reports under the conditions of expanding ERP systems, cloud technologies, artificial intelligence, and more. It is emphasized that the process of financial reporting modernization is accompanied by a number of challenges: the lack of unified approaches to accounting and presenting digital assets, insufficient cybersecurity of information systems, low readiness of small and medium-sized enterprises for digitalization, and a shortage of specialists’ competencies. The article presents the results of the impact of economic digitalization on certain aspects of the formation and use of financial reporting by business entities. The relationship between the development of the digital economy and the provision of the necessary qualitative characteristics of financial reporting is revealed. It is noted that under current conditions, reporting modernization should ensure transparency, timeliness, and data interoperability, taking into account the growing role of artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud technologies, and XBRL. At the same time, the human factor remains essential: enhancing specialists’ digital competencies, changing management practices, and overcoming organizational barriers. It is stressed that in the digital economy, the issues of financial reporting modernization acquire a multidimensional character, manifested in technological, methodological, regulatory, and socio-organizational dimensions. The article reveals that the technological dimension is associated with the implementation of modern information systems, automation of data processing, the use of artificial intelligence, Big Data technologies, blockchain, and cloud computing, which ensure the timeliness, accuracy, and reliability of reporting information. The methodological dimension of modernization is reflected in the transformation of approaches to financial reporting, which represents not only retrospective data but also performs a predictive and analytical function. The regulatory dimension involves the adaptation of the national accounting and reporting system to international standards, harmonization of electronic reporting rules, as well as the establishment of modern requirements for the cybersecurity of financial information. The socio-organizational aspect is manifested in the need to develop digital competencies among accountants, financial analysts, and management personnel.