Common distress and reorganization patterns by sector and country for SMEs in six European countries using PDFR

  1. María-Teresa Tascón 1
  2. Erkki K. Laitinen 2
  3. Francisco Javier Castaño Gutiérrez 1
  4. Paula Castro Castro 1
  5. Annukka Jokipii 2
  1. 1 University of León, León-SPAIN
  2. 2 University of Vaasa, Vaasa-FINLAND
Revista:
Revista de contabilidad = Spanish accounting review: [RC-SAR]

ISSN: 1138-4891

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 26

Número: 2

Páginas: 291-314

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/RCSAR.420171 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

Otras publicaciones en: Revista de contabilidad = Spanish accounting review: [RC-SAR]

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Resumen

This study contributes to identifying common distress patterns in financial indicators by sector and countryin Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain as well as ex-post signals of reorganization success.We use PDFR that provides a distance-to-failure measure and allows us to track the behavior of different features of the firm proxied by accounting ratios. Our results show that indicators of financial structure,followed by working capital, profitability on assets, margin over sales and cash flow to assets, are the most discriminant variables of failed SMEs across all sectors and countries analyzed. By contrast, during reorgan-ization, return on assets and its components are the main initial drivers of recovery, whereas the financia lstructure factors show a progressive but slow recovery. Boosting and Z-scores are used for robustness

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