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Why Do Companies Fail? Considering The Key Problems And Success Factors In Modelling Failure Prediction In An Australian Context, William Wilkinson Mar 2014

Why Do Companies Fail? Considering The Key Problems And Success Factors In Modelling Failure Prediction In An Australian Context, William Wilkinson

Bill Wilkinson

Corporate failure is a regularly recurring problem for stakeholders, particularly investors, creditors and customers. Early attempts at predicting such failure typically relied on analysis of individual performance measurements such as accounting ratios; it was not until the late 1960s that a modelling approach to the problem started to evolve. Altman's Z-score model was the first approach to combine a series of weighted ratios using the statistical technique of multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to arrive at a final score, which was used to determine whether or not a company was likely to fail. Substantial research has followed over the subsequent 40 …


The Development Of A Multi Variant Model For Market Intelligence Data Gathering For Australian Micro Businesses And Smes - A First Step In Unravelling The Paradox Of Big Picture Thinking By Small Market Players, Pauline Ross, Lee Styger Mar 2014

The Development Of A Multi Variant Model For Market Intelligence Data Gathering For Australian Micro Businesses And Smes - A First Step In Unravelling The Paradox Of Big Picture Thinking By Small Market Players, Pauline Ross, Lee Styger

Lee Styger

Micro businesses and SMEs have typically been encouraged to develop and implement "professional" business processes that will enable them to understand their business environment. The driver of this trend has typically come from a growth in the use of external "expert" sources (i.e. consultants and sponsored agents) who are not always fully associated with the business. This growth in external intervention has typically triggered an evolution in contemporary thinking and literature, that would lead us to believe that micro businesses and SMEs operate in a similar way, and with a similar structure, as larger organisations. This paper focuses on some …


Assessing The Effectiveness Of Research Management In Australian Commerce And Business Faculties: The View From Within, Mark Rix, David Aylward, Rob Macgregor, John Glynn Feb 2014

Assessing The Effectiveness Of Research Management In Australian Commerce And Business Faculties: The View From Within, Mark Rix, David Aylward, Rob Macgregor, John Glynn

Mark Rix

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Australian Tax Analysis: Cases, Commentary, Commercial Applications And Questions, Cynthia Coleman, Geoffrey Hart, Brett Bondfield, Margaret Mckerchar, John Mclaren, Kerrie Sadiq, Antony Ting Feb 2014

Australian Tax Analysis: Cases, Commentary, Commercial Applications And Questions, Cynthia Coleman, Geoffrey Hart, Brett Bondfield, Margaret Mckerchar, John Mclaren, Kerrie Sadiq, Antony Ting

John McLaren

No abstract provided.


What Does The Future Hold For Pacific Tax Havens: A Critical Review Of The Campaign Being Mounted Against These Small Nations By The Australian Government And The Oecd?, John Mclaren Feb 2014

What Does The Future Hold For Pacific Tax Havens: A Critical Review Of The Campaign Being Mounted Against These Small Nations By The Australian Government And The Oecd?, John Mclaren

John McLaren

No abstract provided.


What Does The Future Hold For Pacific Tax Havens: A Critical Review Of The Campaign Being Mounted Against These Small Nations By The Australian Government And The Oecd, John Mclaren Feb 2014

What Does The Future Hold For Pacific Tax Havens: A Critical Review Of The Campaign Being Mounted Against These Small Nations By The Australian Government And The Oecd, John Mclaren

John McLaren

No abstract provided.