Artificial intelligence techniques for financial distress prediction

Artificial intelligence (AI) models can effectively identify the financial risks existing in Chinese manufacturing enterprises. We use the financial ratios of 1668 Chinese A-share listed manufacturing enterprises from 2016 to 2021 for our empirical analysis. An AI model is used to obtain the financial distress prediction value for the listed manufacturing enterprises. Our results show that the random forest model has high accuracy in terms of the empirical prediction of the financial distress of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, which reflects the effectiveness of the AI model in predicting the financial distress of the listed manufacturing enterprises. Profitability has the highest degree of importance for predicting financial distress in manufacturing firms, especially the return on equity. The results in this paper have good policy implications for how to use the AI model to improve the early warning and monitoring system of financial risks and enhance the ability of financial risk prevention and control.