# Prof. Edward Altman's Z-Score measure is featured

Faculty News

— January 15, 2015

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Excerpt from [USA Today](http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2015/01/15/caesars-woes-predicted-by-one-number/) -- "An easy-to-use financial measure, invented decades ago by New York University Stern School of business professor [Edward Altman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman), was designed to be an early warning signal of companies in major trouble. Professional investors swear by the Altman Z-Score and the number has proved prescient, yet again."

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