The original purpose of this study is comparing of Support Vector Machine and Genetic Algorithm and impact of financial ratios on accuracy of bankruptcy prediction. In according to some limitations in traditional statistical models, we used two...

Bankruptcy prediction is a major issue in classification of companies. Since bankruptcy is extremely costly, investors, owners, managers, creditors, and government agencies are interested in evaluating the financial status of companies. This study...

.

Originality/value – The current paper is almost the first paper which combined several different

methods of bankruptcy prediction....