Stewart Jones is Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney Business School. He specializes in corporate financial reporting and has published extensively in the distress risk and corporate failure modelling field. His publications appear in many leading international journals, including the Accounting Review, the Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Banking and Finance and many other leading journals. He has published over 150 scholarly research pieces, including 70 refereed articles, 10 books, and numerous book chapters, working papers, and short monographs. Stewart is currently Senior Editor of the prestigious international quarterly, Abacus.

1. The Relevance and Utility of Distress Risk and Corporate Failure Forecasts 2. Searching for the Holy Grail: Alternative Statistical Modelling Approaches 3. The Rise of the Machines 4. An Empirical Application of Modern Machine Learning Methods 5. Corporate Failure Models for Private Companies, Not-for Profits, and Public Sector Entities 6. Whither Corporate Failure Research?

This book serves as an introduction to distress risk and corporate failure modelling techniques. The book's comprehensive review and use of real-life data will make this a valuable, easy-to-read text for researchers, academics, institutions and professionals who make use of distress risk and corporate failure forecasts.