In view of the failure of high profile companies like Circuit City and Linens n Things, Financial distress or bankruptcy prediction has generated much interest recently. This research develops and tests a model for the prediction of bankruptcy of retail firms. We use accounting variables such as...

The objective of this paper is to critically evaluate the main weaknesses associated with the limitations of financial failure prediction research studies. For more than 80 years, researchers have unsuccessfully studied ways to create a general theory of financial failure, which is useful for...

This study develops a corporate bankruptcy classification model from a sample of 258 bankrupt and non-bankrupt companies, covering the period 1986-2008. Instead of depending on traditional ratios, it uses a simple exponential function-based algorithm to improve the stability of financial data....

This paper is focused on the financial situation of enterprises introducing safeguard procedure (in other words moratorium) in the Czech Republic. The paper's aim is to show if the enterprises asking for the safeguard procedure do have financial conditions for recovering and maintaining the...

This paper investigates how the process of going bankrupt can be recognized much earlier by enterprises than by traditional forecasting models. The presented studies focus on the assessment of credit risk classes and on determination of the differences in risk class migrations between...

The scientific community has demonstrated that for the bankruptcy prediction, different techniques have different advantages on different data sets and different feature selection approaches. This subject has attracted a lot of research interests as it is one of the major preoccupation of...

We use a vector error correction model to study the long-term relationship between aggregate expected default frequency and the macroeconomic development, i.e. CPI, industry production and short-term interest rate. The model is used to forecast the median expected default frequency of the...

The objective of the article is to define what financial indicators permit to predict with a major certainty a difficult financial situation or a fact waiting a bankruptcy, it will be used the model proposed by Professor Altman applied to Colombian case, the purpose is to have some kind of light...

Bankruptcy filings are as high today as ever, calling into question the efficacy of existing bankruptcy prediction models. This paper tries to provide an alternative for bankruptcy prediction by integrated Multi Layered Perceptron with Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (MLP-ICA) and Kohonen self...