Analysis of financial distress cross countries: Using macroeconomic, industrial indicators and accounting data

This paper applies three-way multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis to examine the nature of insolvency in the Gulf Corporation Council, the United Kingdom and the United States of America between from 2004 to 2012. The findings of this paper reveal that analysing the financial statements data with indicators of industrial and macroeconomic, provide a better understanding of the performance of the solvent and insolvent firms...