The purpose of this paper is to examine the essential characteristics of the financial statements of FinTech start-ups and to investigate which figures of balance sheets are suitable indicators of failure for this still rising group of start-ups. We conduct a quantitative analysis of 595 annual...

This document describes the development of a financial health indicator based on companies' financial statements. This indicator is conceived as a weighted combination of variables, which is obtained through a model discriminating between failing firms and non-failing firms. The definition of...

Statistical analysis of financial statements has reached a high degree of sophistication. But Consolidated financial statements of a group of companies seem to be resistent against these attempts. Analysts suspect that these statements can legally be manipulated to such an extent that they...