In view of the failure of high profile companies like Circuit City and Linens n Things, Financial distress or bankruptcy prediction has generated much interest recently. This research develops and tests a model for the prediction of bankruptcy of retail firms. We use accounting variables such as...

The aim of this research is to develop a model to forecast short term health cost changes. The motivation for producing such a model is to provide local decision makers with a tool to predict short term health care costs in their localities. In order to achieve this objective, we collected data...

This chapter concerns itself with the development of a regression model for determining the executive compensation of the AT&T CEO. The data observations for this model consist of a list of 21 comparable companies selected by the compensation committee of AT&T, its institutional investors, and...