The usage of scoring models to evaluate the risk of bankruptcy on the example of companies from the transport sector

The process of designing and implementing scoring systems as effective research tools, used to evaluate the risk of bankruptcy of companies is presented in this publication. An at-tempt has been made to use scoring models in practice to predict bankruptcy of the Polish companies from the logistics sector. The main goal of the conducted research was to exam-ine effectiveness of usage of scoring models as effective tools for bankruptcy prediction. To practically implement the scoring models the Statistica package has been used, as well as own calculating procedures in the Statistica Visual Basic programming language have been designed.

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