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Towards an improved financial ratio model for construction contractor evaluation

conference contribution
posted on 2017-02-01, 09:23 authored by Francis Tekyi Edum-Fotwe, Andrew Price, Tony ThorpeTony Thorpe
The use of financial ratio models to evaluate construction contractors is already well established. These models can also help construction companies to assess their own performance as part of the strategic evaluation. Ratio models employ a dichotomous indexed scale to measure the performance of a company. Previously developed ratio models have been criticised as lacking in their efficiency of evaluation. This paper presents two methods for improving on the efficiency of ratio models to be employed in the evaluation of the construction contractor. The first relates to the nature of the data employed in the estimation of ratio models and proposes data quality improvements of transformations and outlier deletion; and the second addresses the scope for classifying companies and utilises different statistical transforms to provide early detection of imminent financial bankruptcy. A discriminant ratio model was developed with these two approaches, resulting in a three-function sequential model.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Financial Management of Property and Construction, Newcastle Financial Management of Property and Construction, Newcastle

Pages

. - ?

Citation

EDUM-FOTWE, F., PRICE, A. and THORPE, A., 1995. Towards an improved financial ratio model for construction contractor evaluation. Proceedings of 1995 Conference on Financial Management of Property and Construction, Newcastle (Co. Down), United Kingdom, May 1995, pp.135-144.

Publisher

University of Ulster

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1995

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Closed access.

ISBN

9781859230510;1859230512

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Language

  • en

Location

Co. Down, Northern Ireland