Prediction of Financial Health of Business Entities in Transition Economies

Front Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Propedeutics and repetitorium of corporate financial health prediction -- 1.1 Detection of elemental causes and symptoms of corporate financial health deterioration -- 1.1.1 Causes of corporate financial health deterioration -- 1.1.2 Symptoms of corporate financial health deterioration -- 1.2 Methods of corporate financial health prediction -- 1.2.1 Statistical Models -- 1.2.2 Mathematical Programming -- 1.2.3 Artificial Intelligence -- 1.2.4 Credit risk theories -- 1.2.5 Alternative theoretical models -- 2 Legislative aspects of bankruptcy resolution -- 2.1 Definition of bankruptcy -- 2.2 Historical excursion to insolvency law issues -- 2.3 Settlement of bankruptcy in foreign legal orders -- 2.3.1 The Czech Republic -- 2.3.2 Hungary -- 2.3.3 Germany -- 2.3.4 Poland -- 2.3.5 Austria -- 2.3.6 Singapore -- 2.3.7 Ukraine -- 2.3.8 USA -- 2.4 Bankruptcy resolution in Slovak legislation -- 2.5 European and international bankruptcy law -- 2.5.1 Adjustment of cross-border bankruptcies in the Slovak legal order -- 3 Mathematical and statistical handbook -- 3.1 Multiple discriminant analysis -- 3.1.1 Assumptions for the use of discriminant analysis -- 3.1.2 Canonical discriminant analysis -- 3.1.3 Prediction function of discriminant analysis -- 3.1.4 Advantages and disadvantages of discriminant analysis -- 3.2 Logistic regression -- 3.2.1 Assumptions for the use of logistic regression -- 3.2.2 The principle of logistic regression -- 3.2.3 Testing of the statistical significance of logistic regression -- 3.2.4 Assessing the quality of the logistic regression model -- 3.2.5 Interpretation of the parameters of the logistic regression model -- 3.2.6 Assessing the classification capability of the logistic regression model -- 3.2.7 Advantages and disadvantages of logistic regression.