Can a quantitative approach be mitigated? Proposals for the application of the "early warnings" required by the new Italian Insolvency Code

Journal title FINANCIAL REPORTING
Author/s Fabrizio Bava, Massimo Cane, Melchior Gromis di Trana
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2
Language English Pages 29 P. 33-61 File size 449 KB
DOI 10.3280/FR2020-002002
DOI is like a bar code for intellectual property: to have more infomation click here

Below, you can see the article first page

If you want to buy this article in PDF format, you can do it, following the instructions to buy download credits

Article preview

FrancoAngeli is member of Publishers International Linking Association, Inc (PILA), a not-for-profit association which run the CrossRef service enabling links to and from online scholarly content.

In compliance with European regulations, the new Italian "Insolvency Code" introduced new tools to prevent future financial crises in businesses ("early warn-ings"). Their aim is to highlight future insolvency issues, to enable timely action in order to avert the potential crisis for as long as possible.V This mechanism will come into force on 15 August 2020. Based on a previous investigation that identified the most sensitive financial ratios for evaluating a go-ing concern, this study proposes and tests a possible approach which combines generic quantitative indicators with a case-by-case solution. A discriminant analysis was made on a pairwise sample of Italian non-listed small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). The proposed model overcomes the problem that arose from a combined interpretation of the indicators, and also it acts as a tool that can deter-mine the level of risk within each situation. This approach aims to limit the rigidity produced by common quantitative thresholds, thereby reducing false positives and negatives, ensuring an automatic reporting process that can preserve the efficiency of the early warning mechanism. Furthermore, our proposal is better suited to SMEs, since it is based on financial statements rather than forecasts.

Keywords: Insolvency, crisis, financial indicators, early warnings.

Jel codes: M41, G14, G33, C41

  • Early Warning Systems for financial crises prediction in private companies: Evidence from the Italian context Mario Daniele, Elisa Raoli, in FINANCIAL REPORTING 2/2024 pp.133
    DOI: 10.3280/FR2024-002006

Fabrizio Bava, Massimo Cane, Melchior Gromis di Trana, Can a quantitative approach be mitigated? Proposals for the application of the "early warnings" required by the new Italian Insolvency Code in "FINANCIAL REPORTING" 2/2020, pp 33-61, DOI: 10.3280/FR2020-002002