Major research questions tackled in this area are:

• Corporation modelling based on accounting data.
• Strategic impact of financial profiles.
• Revisiting PIMS: Still useful and how?
• A comparative analysis of Portugal and other European States about sectorial financial profiles.
• How can bankruptcies be predicted and anticipated.

Special collaboration is planned with the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Spain), the University of Macau and the Asociación Internacional de Economía Aplicada - ASEPELT.

Major Recent Research Results until 2019

• Antão, M. G., Peres, C. J., & Marques, H. M. (2018). Taxonomia da Falência e a Recuperação de Empresas – O Porquê do Insucesso. European Journal of Applied Business Management, 30–58. 

• Geada, F. (2018). The Liberalization of The Azores Airspace : The Impact of Low-Cost on SATA. European Journal of Applied Business and Management. 

• Kasyan, A., Santos, P., Pinho, C., & Pinto, V. (2018). Disclosure of Fair Value Measurement Techniques of Financial Instruments – Study applied to the Portuguese Banking Sector according to IFRS 7. International Review of Management and Business Research (IRMBR), 6(9), 32–44.

• Peres, C. J., & Antão, M. G. (2017). The use of multivariate discriminant analysis to predict corporate bankruptcy: A review. AESTIMATO - The IEB International Journal of Finance, (14), 108–131.

• Pinto, O., & West, B. (2017). Accounting and the history of the everyday life of captains, sailors and common seamen in eighteenth-century Portuguese slave trading. Accounting History, 22(320–347).