Abstract: the analysis of investment activity is an objective process that is the result of the evolution of socio-economic formations and is determined by the level of development of economic relations between social groups of people regarding the creation and distribution of added value.
The reason for the division of economic analysis into financial and investment analysis and management analysis (end of XIX – the beginning of XX century) due to the strengthening of the role of “business secrets” as a factor considerably influencing the development of economic relations in capitalist societies and the growing needs of the communities in these media of communication, which, contributing to capital inflows, simultaneously may act as a “barrier” of social conflicts, to hinder the process of deepening of contradictions between economic interests of the actors involved in the raising and consumption of capital. Thus, already at the dawn of capitalism, indicators formed in the system of financial and investment analysis, in fact, were assigned a three-fold function, which was, first, to ensure the preservation of the secrecy of business information in a competitive environment, second, to use them as a means of communication between various social groups, people, and third, to act as a “barrier” to social conflicts.
Keywords: communication tools, social conflicts, capital, process, contradictions