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Knowledge‐based management support: an application of diagnostic reasoning to corporate financing decisions

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  • Meral Binbasioglu
  • Edward J. Zychowicz

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The corporate finance application domain is studied as part of designing a diagnostic decision support system (DSS) for analyzing the financial ‘health’ of a modern corporation. A conceptual model of the financial management application domain is developed to capture the inherent interactions among financial domain objects. We view the objective of financial management to be to maintain a balance among financial performance measures, such as profitability, liquidity, dividend policy, and capital structure. We represent knowledge regarding these performance measures together with the related financial accounting data. A high‐level structure to the diagnostic reasoning process is introduced via a classification scheme that identifies the relevant problem categories. The proposed approach supports the interpretation of domain relationships when formulating corrective measures. More importantly, it provides proactive management support by facilitating the analysis of domain facts for probable contingencies. The approach is illustrated with examples. Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Meral Binbasioglu & Edward J. Zychowicz, 1998. "Knowledge‐based management support: an application of diagnostic reasoning to corporate financing decisions," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 7(4), pages 199-211, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:isacfm:v:7:y:1998:i:4:p:199-211
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1174(199812)7:43.0.CO;2-Q
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    1. H. A. M. Daniels & E. A. M. Caron, 2009. "Automated explanation of financial data," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(1‐2), pages 5-19, January.
    2. Daniel E. O'Leary, 2009. "Downloads and citations in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(1‐2), pages 21-31, January.

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