Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy Edward I. Altman The Journal of Finance, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Sep., 1968), pp. 589-609. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1082%28196809%2923%3A4%3C589%3AFRDAAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R The Journal of Finance is currently published by American Finance Association. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/about/terms.html. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/journals/afina.html. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to and preserving a digital archive of scholarly journals. For more information regarding JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. http://www.jstor.org Sun Jun 17 20:06:08 2007 [...]... (Homewood, 111.: Richard D Irwin, Inc., 1966), pp 215-251 608 The Journal of Finance the costs of investigation of loan applicants Less time and effort would be spent on companies whose Z score is very high, i.e., above 3.0, while those with low Z scores would signal a very thorough investigation This policy would be advisable to the loan officer who had some degree of faith in the discriminant analysis approach,... required on this subject http://www.jstor.org LINKED CITATIONS - Page 1 of 2 - You have printed the following article: Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy Edward I Altman The Journal of Finance, Vol 23, No 4 (Sep., 1968), pp 589-609 Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-1082%28196809%2923%3A4%3C589%3AFRDAAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R This article references . Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy Edward I. Altman The Journal of Finance, Vol. 23, No.. Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies