Verification of early warning models on enterprises from the SEZS Europark Mielec

In this article the authors focus on the verification of models for forecasting bankruptcy of enterprises. 30 enterprises located in the Mielec zone were surveyed. Early warning models were used in the study, including 6 discrimination models and 4 logit models. The purpose of the article is to verify the effectiveness of selected models for forecasting the bankruptcy of enterprises that operate in the Mielec special economic zone. The financial data came from the period 1999-2017. It should be noted that "healthy" enterprises, i.e. those in good financial condition, operate in the zone to date. The conducted research shows that the selected models correctly reflected the financial situation of the surveyed enterprises (Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences model of F. Mączyńska and M. Zawadzki 80% accurate forecasts, and the model of J. Gajdka and D. Stos 73.3%). The authors point out the need to use many analysis models to reliably assess the financial situation of enterprises. If only one model is used, the results may lead to erroneous conclusions.