Predicting Business Failure: Identifying High-Risk Contractors.
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the usefulness of the qualitative information found in annual financial reports for making predictions about corporate failure. The content of the president's cover letters for a matched pair of firms, failed versus non-failed, spanning the five-year period prior to failure were analyzed and scored for integrative complexity. The major finding was that a firm may be identified as a probable candidate for failure as many as five years prior to the time of entering bankruptcy proceedings. When employed in conjunction with current prescribed analytical techniques utilized by Department of Defense contracting and purchasing officials in determining a contractor's capacity to perform, this technique may prove useful in identifying high-risk contractors, thereby reducing the risk of financial loss to the government. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADA132163
Entities
People
- William Mckinley Matthews
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School