The success of dotcoms has been short lived. Within a short span of a few years the dotcoms experienced a meteoric rise and suffered a dramatic fall. This research is a support vector machine based investigation of dotcoms from a financial perspective. Data from the financial statements of survived and failed dotcoms are collected and 24 financial ratios are computed. The financial ratios are a...

This paper explores the effectiveness of Data Mining (DM) classification techniques in detecting firms that issue fraudulent financial statements (FFS) and deals with the identification of factors associated to FFS. In accomplishing the task of management fraud detection, auditors could be facilitated in their work by using data mining techniques. This study investigates the usefulness of Decis...

The balanced scorecard has proved itself as a valuable strategic tool in measuring not only the financial performance, but also the customer focus, internal business processes and learning and growth of a company. To date, very little has been done to incorporate new breakthroughs in financial management in the financial perspective of the balanced scorecard. In this study, new trends in financ...