AN ANALYSIS OF TELECOMMUNICATION VENDOR COMPANY BANKRUPTCY POTENCY BASED ON THE PROBLEMATIC FINANCIAL RATIO WITH ALTMAN, SPRINGATE AND ZMIJEWSKI METHODS


AN ANALYSIS OF TELECOMMUNICATION VENDOR COMPANY BANKRUPTCY POTENCY BASED ON THE PROBLEMATIC FINANCIAL RATIO WITH ALTMAN, SPRINGATE AND ZMIJEWSKI METHODS

 

Author		: NORITA
Published on	: International Conference In Organizational Innovation

 

Abstract

“The capability of a company to survive in business is highly related with its own performance. In order to preserve company???s life cycle, management team must be able to maintain, even improve its performance. A company that cannot compete to maintain its performance eventually will get kicked out from its industrial environment and will suffer from financial distress. If a company cannot escape from that conditions, it will encounter a bankruptcy threat. Bankruptcy is a form of company???s failure in carrying out its performance to achieve profit. Bankruptcy occurs when debt value is over its asset market value.

The purpose of this research is to find out Nokia Corp financial condition in 2010-2014, whether this company has some serious problem or still in a good condition. Besides, this research would like to know which financial ratio is troublesome that can causes the company trapped in financial distress zone or even creates bankruptcy potential. The methods that used to predict company???s brankruptcy in this research are Altman method, Springate method and Zmijewski method.

This research shows that using Altman method, Nokia is in financial distress zone for four years, starting from 2011-2014 while Nokia is in the grey/ ignorance zone in 2010. Using Springate method, Nokia is in a distress zone for three consecutive years starting from 2012-2014, while Nokia is in a safe zone in 2010 and 2014. In the opposite, using Zmijewski method, Nokia is in the distress zone only in 2012, while in the other four year period, its in a safe zone.

Key Word : Bankruptcy, Altman Z-Score, Springate Score, Zmijewski Score”

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