Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsRetail Bankruptcy PredictionJohnny Pang, Mark KogelThis study reintroduces the famous discriminant functions from Edward Altman and Begley, Ming and Watts (BMW) that were used to predict bankrupts. We will formulate three new discriminant functions which differ from Altman’s and BMW’s re-estimated Altman model. Altman’s models as well as Begley, Ming and Watts’s re-estimated Altman model apply to publicly traded industries, whereas the new models formulated … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 13 Sep 2013 · 7,472 accessesView PDFCite