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Method of Predicting Corporate Failures

Probability of corporate failure can be measured quantitatively by analyzing key financial ratios like liquidity, gearing, and profitability. It can also be measured qualitatively by considering information from chairman reports, press, and changes in the external environment. Models for predicting failure can be divided into quantitative models, which identify differences in financial ratios between surviving and failing companies, and qualitative models, which assign scores to qualitative risk factors.

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Method of Predicting Corporate Failures

Probability of corporate failure can be measured quantitatively by analyzing key financial ratios like liquidity, gearing, and profitability. It can also be measured qualitatively by considering information from chairman reports, press, and changes in the external environment. Models for predicting failure can be divided into quantitative models, which identify differences in financial ratios between surviving and failing companies, and qualitative models, which assign scores to qualitative risk factors.

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Probability of corporate failure can be measured by the following Quantitative as well as Qualitative way:

Quantitative method:

 Analyzing the key ratios like liquidity, gearing, profitability

 Information about very large increase in intangible assets, a worsening cash position shown by the cash flow
statement (NOCFPS), very large contingent liabilities, important post balance sheet events

Qualitative information:

 Information in the chairman’s report and the director’s report (including warnings, evasions and changes in
the composition of the board since last year)

 Information in the press (about the industry and the company or its competitors).

 Information about environment or external matters such as changes in the market for the company’s product
or services.

All the models to predict corporate failure can be broadly divided into two categories:

1. Quantitative Models: Quantitative models identify financial ratios with values which differ markedly between
surviving and failing companies. Some examples of Quantitative Models are:

Beaver’s Univariate Model (1966): A simple, but flawed, model that assesses the financial status of a
company by reviewing one ratio at a time.

Altman’s Z-Score Model (1968):

http://kfknowledgebank.kaplan.co.uk/KFKB/Wiki%20Pages/Corporate%20Failure.aspx

2. Qualitative models: Qualitative models assign scores to particular qualitative risk factors.

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