A lot of methods have been used in the past for the prediction of failure business like Discriminant analysis, Logit analysis, Quadratic Function etc. Although some of these methods lead to models with a satisfactory ability to discriminate between healthy and bankrupt, they endure some limitations, often due to the unrealistic assumption of statistical hypotheses. This is why we have undertake...

Bankruptcy prediction is one of the major business classification problems. The main purpose of this study is to investigate Kohonen self-organizing feature map in term of performance accuracy in the area of bankruptcy prediction.  A sample of 108 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange is used for the study. Our results confirm that Kohonen network is a robust model for predicting bankruptcy in ...

Accounting frauds have continuously happened all over the world. This leads to the need of predicting business failures. Statistical methods and machine learning techniques have been widely used to deal with this issue. In general, financial ratios are one of the main inputs to develop the prediction models. This paper presents a hybrid financial analysis model including static and trend analys...

This study sampled companies listed on Taiwan Stock Exchange that examined financial distress between 2003 and 2009. It uses the survival analysis to find the main indicators which can explain the business bankruptcy in Taiwan. This paper uses the Cox Proportional Hazard Model to assess the usefulness of traditional financial ratios and market variables as predictors of the probability of busin...

today, change is a definite phenomenon and organizations should make themselves aligned with requirements for survival and success in the competitive market and retain customers. one of the main components of any organization that is undergoing these changes is the business processes of that organization. in other words, in a dynamic business environment, business processes are changed at runti...

Business negotiations represent a form of communication where informativeness, i.e., the amount of provided information, depends on context and situation. In this study, we hypothesize that relations exist between language signals of informativeness and the success or failure of negotiations. We support our hypothesis through linguistic and statistical analysis which acquires language patterns ...

Software failures can lead to substantial costs for the user. Existing models for software reliability prediction do not provide much insight into this financial impact. Our approach presents a first step towards the integration of reliability prediction from the IT perspective and the business perspective. We show that failure impact should be taken into account not only at their date of occur...