This is a course material (slides in pdf format) for the chapter Financial Analysis and Control Financial Ratio Analysis already in SSRN. In these slides I present a detailed explanation of different financial ratios commonly used in financial management. We introduce some examples in the slides...

This research evaluates the capability of financial ratios for predicting the financial crisis of companies. Predicting the financial crisis of institutions has been constantly the concern of different groups of users, because the final effectiveness of each decision has a direct relation to the...

This study compares the performance of an old liquidity ratio (LiqR) and two new liquidity indicators, namely, liquidity creation (LiqC) and net stable funding difference (NSFD), in sending early warning signals for distressed banks. Recent evidence shows that the old indicator appears incapable...

There is an inter-relationship between financial crisis and banking performance as prior research and literature suggests. The business world today is more global than ever and financial crisis affect national economies just like dominos. More importantly, financial crisis have several negative...

In this study we provide a practical framework and methodology for analyzing the effects of banking shocks (economic or financial in nature) on bank fundamentals, that avoids the use of complicated econometrics methods. For this, we focus our attention to the effects of the 2007-2008 global...