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Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy

Pfeifer, Phillip E...

Technical Note

Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy

Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Haskins, Mark E.

QA-0371 | Published April 5, 1991 | 9 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

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This note describes a study of the important predictors of corporate bankruptcy. Twenty-four financial ratios for a paired sample of fifty healthy and bankrupt firms are provided. Students are asked to develop a predictive model of corporate bankruptcy using these data. A hold-out sample is used to test their predictions.

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