Financing, entrepreneurship and reporting

Organisation profile:The research activity is aimed at getting insight in a large database of financial statements of Belgian companies, by means of econometric methods as factor analysis, discriminant analysis, logit and probit and other multivariate techniques applied to financial statement information. Special attention is paid to SME's, credit policy of the firm as well as growth phenomena. In a first stage the program is rather descriptive and exploratory. In a later stage the activities are more oriented towards explanatory research whereby data are analysed in the light of modern financial theories and models. Something will be looked at in an international context. A list of other current research topics is the following: * initial public offerings (S. Vandemaele); * target costing and Interoranizational Cost Management (A. Limère); * Credit scoring (A. Limère); * Determinants of growth in Belgian Companies (A. Limère, E. Laveren, R. Mercken, K. Vanhoof); * Financial Structure of SME┌s (W. Voordeckers). Analysis and development of intelligent systems in business and finance. Regional economic development, computer auditing, business planning for SME's, SME cycle analysis, effectiveness of SME-consultancy, maintenance analysis for SME's, case-based reasoning, simulation for educational purposes.

Keywords:ADDED VALUE, COMPANY PERFORMANCE, CREDIT POLICY, FINANCIAL STRUCTURE, GROWTH, INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING, SME, TARGET COSTING

Disciplines:Economics and business