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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION AND THE CORPORATE FAILURE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF ALTMAN’S ZSCORE MODEL IN ZIMBABWE

GSTF Journal on Business Review

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Title AN ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION AND THE CORPORATE FAILURE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF ALTMAN’S ZSCORE MODEL IN ZIMBABWE
 
Creator Mugozhi, Farirepi
 
Description This research focuses on testing corporate failure predictivevalue of Altman’s Z-score model on Zimbabwe’s financialinstitutions in order to establish whether the model canaccurately predict risk of failure for these financial institutionsand the extent to which the model is being employed by theinstitutions for failure prediction particularly after Zimbabwefaced unique economic conditions. A case study approach withten selected financial institutions was used. The research foundout that the Z-Score model can accurately predict risk of failurewithin two years with higher accuracy one year prior to failureand that financial institutions were not employing the model infailure prediction. The study concluded that the Z-score model isan effective tool for failure management and was thereforerecommended.
 
Publisher GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR)
 
Date 2018-01-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/875
 
Source GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR); Vol 4 No 4 (2016): GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR)
2251-2888
2251-2888
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/875/810
 
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