Financial and business terms

ZSCORE

Z-score: translation

Z-scoreˈZ-scorenoun[countable]
FINANCESTATISTICSa figure that shows how likely it is that a business will fail. The Z-score is calculated using information about the relative levels of a business's assets, sales, profits etc and is correct about 90% of the time in calculating if a business will go bankrupt within one year:

• Auditors at one point gave the company a Z-score of 2.27.

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Z-scoreUKUSnoun[C]FINANCE
►a figure that shows how likely a business is to fail, calculated by looking at its assets, profits, debt, etc. at a particular time:»

The Z-score gives investors a snapshot of corporate financial health.


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