The financial distress risk concept has been referred as follow: negative net assets, insolvency, bond default, overdraft, unpaid dividends for the preferred stocks, bankruptcy etc. From all the stakeholders, investors are interested in the financial position and performance of a company and its...

This study uses generalized additive models to identify and analyze nonlinear relationships between accounting-based and market-based independent variables and how these affect bankruptcy predictions. Specifically, it examines the independent variables that Altman (J Financ 23:589–609, 1968;...

From a juridical point of view, an entity is considered in difficulty in the situation of payments’ ceasing that occurs when it can not face its due debts with the available funds. In the case of a financial depreciation, the short term liabilities are superior to the assets. The negative net...

The paper presents the approach for the verification of the lemma used for the model for reputation risk for subsidiaries of non-public group with reciprocal shareholding as proposed by the author in priory works. For all entities with the absolute value of the reputation risk greater than the...

The entire market of Polish financial broker-dealer was examined. The research was conducted on the first year of implementation of the capital requirements disclosure. There was identified a relation between accounting and supervisory disclosure requirements. A relation between audit opinions...

The discussion on value-based performance measures is centered around the concept of residualincome. The main property of residual income is its connection to capital budgeting and the net-present-value-rule. This property is, however, not sufficient to guarantee strong goal congruencebetween...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the essential characteristics of the financial statements of FinTech start-ups and to investigate which figures of balance sheets are suitable indicators of failure for this still rising group of start-ups. We conduct a quantitative analysis of 595 annual...

Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, which manage annual trading volumes on the scale of trillions of US dollars worldwide, are classified as virtual asset service providers (VASPs). They facilitate the exchange, custody, and transfer of cryptoassets organized in wallets across distributed...

This paper looks at a sample of small and medium entities in Spain and analyzesthe effect of the vulnerability of sectors to insolvency on their survival and the probability that they will go bankrupt. We collected data from solvent and insolvent firms in Spain over the period 2012-2016, and...

Corporate failures and dismantling have become more and more widespread after the late 2007-2008 global crisis and individual as well as bulk numbers of multiple cases are almost as many, and the total economic impact more devastating since the Great Depression. In another study1 , I had...