Predicting bankruptcy within selected industries is crucial because of the potential ripple effects and unique characteristics of those industries. It serves as a risk management tool, guiding various stakeholders in making decisions. While artificial intelligence (AI) has shown high success...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare sector has emerged as a resilient and profitable domain amidst market fluctuations. Consequently, investing in healthcare securities, particularly through mutual funds, has gained traction. Existing research on predicting future prices of...

Small-scale broiler farming has become one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors in Zimbabwe. However, the profitability levels of these small ventures have been questioned due to the rising production costs owing to the highly inflationary macroeconomic environment. Using a sample of 110...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Ethiopian economy. Barley, including food and malt barley, is one of the major cereals produced by smallholder farmers. Though malt barley is the fastest-growing industry, demand is outpacing supply. As a result, Ethiopia is a net importer of raw malt barley....

This study estimates the factors influencing micro and small enterprise financial performance in the non-farm sector of Ghana. Data was sourced from Ghana ECG/ISSER Socio-Economic Panel Survey in 2010. The study is underpinned by the resource-based view theory of firm performance. Ordinary least...

This study presents a class-based approach developed to evaluate the financial performance of companies that have undergone public listing on the stock market. By employing both statistical analysis and machine learning methods, the models consider two important determinants, which are the...

Fraudsters are now more active in their attacks on credit card transactions than ever before. With the advancement in data science and machine learning, various algorithms have been developed to determine whether a transaction is fraudulent. We study the performance of three different machine...