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New risk analysis tools with accounting changes: adjusted Z-score

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  • Seong Cho, Liang Fu and Yin Yu

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ABSTRACT Altman's Z-score has been used for several decades to calculate bankruptcy probability. However, the conventional Z-score fails to consider possible earnings manipulations that could change the fundamental accounting figures and their implications for investors' decision models. We reconstruct the Z-score, making adjustments for earnings management.We apply the adjusted Z-score to measure the degree of deviation from bankruptcy probability for the bankruptcy sample. We find that the Z-score is overstated (respectively, understated) for the income-increasing (respectively, income-decreasing) earnings-management sample. Furthermore, we find that the adjusted Z-score performs better than the Z-score for bankruptcy predictions.

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