Summary: The conceptual apparatus of the term "trade secret" and its protection mechanisms at both the enterprise and the law in general.

Keywords: trade secrets, protection of trade secrets, competitors, confidential information nondisclosure document.

Abstract: This article is devoted to actual research directions in finance - financial security, such as research and development of theoretical propositions about the nature and methods for assessing levels of financial security.

Keywords: financial security company restaurant business, financial condition, financial ratios, forecasting, indicator, assessment factors.

In the article the methodical instructions concerning the possibility to ensure the financial stability of commercial banks. Investigated the practice of diagnostics of the financial stability of the Bank. Defined methods for the improvement of definition of reliability of financial stability.

The article deals with the methodological approach the definition of «financial stability» of the enterprise, the basic internal and external factors that significantly affect the financial stability of the company.

Keywords: financial stability of the company, the internal factors of financial stability, the external factors of financial stability, the basic factors derived factors detailing factors.