Analysis reveals longer reporting delays in distressed companies, suggesting limited predictive capacity for financial distress.
ABSTRACT: A sample of Australian companies entering financial distress is found to have significantly longer reporting delays than a control group of companies. Unfortunately the reporting lags, either alone or in conjunction with conventional bankruptcy prediction models, do not appear to add to our ability to predict distress.
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