# Prof. Edward Altman's Z-score research is featured

1 Faculty News August 21, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030935.jpg?itok=M2u2hHSi)>

Excerpt from [Motley Fool](http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/08/21/is-the-worst-priced-into-blackberry-2.aspx) -- "In the late 1960s...[Edward Altman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman), published a formula that would change finance: the Altman Z-score. Altman researched nearly 70 bankrupt manufacturing companies' financial statements pre-bankruptcy to determine what these companies had in common. This research gave rise to an easy-to-use equation that could predict bankruptcy."

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