This paper examines the distinct types of modified auditor opinions and the non-compliance with the legal certification of accounts, to assess whether they provide different relevant informational content on the risk of impending bankruptcies. The study also addresses the signalling effects when...

Given the global attention and attraction of many scholars and researchers to develop prediction models for determining the going concern of businesses, there is a growing need to monitor progress and trends in the field. As such, the study aims to analyse the evolution of prediction models for...

In this study, we aim to examine the effect of company and auditor characteristics on the issuance of going-concern opinions. The study population encompasses all financially distressed manufacturing companies listed on the Vietnam Stock Exchange during 2010-2019. The results indicate that the...

Using Reuters data and machine learning, this paper explores the potential role of linguistic features of 972,144 business news headlines in going-concern opinion predictions. This research identifies 26,857 firm-year observations from their headlines from 2004 to 2016. For each observation in...

We study asset and debt characteristics of US bank holding companies. We show that financial institutions, especially large institutions, are not just about holding discrete assets. Services and going-concern values are important, and capital market debt against going-concern values accounts for...