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Despite of commonly used the term „enterprise financial security” the issue is not clearly defined and raises a lot of controversy. In the Polish and foreign literature there is no synthetic measure of the enterprise financial security. The fundamental goal of this paper is identification the key, cash-based and accrual-based measures of the enterprise financial security. The main thesis of this article is the assertion that the need for satisfactory financial perspectives (conditions) for the continuation and development of business activities implies the necessity for the parallel measurement and evaluation of cash-based and accrual-based measures, which is consequently the basis for effective and efficient management of business entity, its continued activity and development