A hybrid intelligent system to diagnose and indicate solutions to financial problems

Monitoring and adjusting financial health problems play central role in the firm’s performance.Usually, small firms face difficulties in these tasks for lacking human resources and incapacityto afford a consultant. By analyzing the nature of the diagnosis and the solution of financialproblems one can identify two different reasoning: during the diagnosis phase, the process isbasically intuitive due to complex relations between financial ratios and problems; in thesolution phase, the analyst follows a deductive approach searching for the causes andadjustments to the identified problem. Based on these aspects and on the motivation ofproviding a computational system to aid small firms, we built a Hybrid Intelligent System todiagnose (through Neural Network) and indicate solutions (through Expert System) to financialproblems. In this paper we discuss the nature of the problems and present the system.