Data Mining for Bankruptcy Prediction: An Experiment in Vietnam

Abstract

— In the history of the world economy, the bank-ruptcy of some large companies has caused global financial crises. The study aimed to postulate a model of bankruptcy prediction for listed companies on Vietnam's stock market. The research used six popular algorithms in data mining to predict bankruptcy risk with data collected from 4693 observations in the period 2009-2020. The research results showed that Logistic algorithms, Artificial Neural Network, Decision Tree have a high level of predicting bankruptcy with an accuracy of 98%. The study identified the three most important indicators: inventory turnover ratio, debt to equity ratio, and debt ratio that affect the corporate bankruptcy prediction. The study showed the threshold points of 10-indicators to avoid bankruptcy likelihood. These results recommended that the model could be applied in practice to reduce risks for businesses and investors in the Vietnamese market.