“…The Table 2 shows that the studies focus on companies from different countries. The research samples of the mentioned studies consisted of manufacturing firms (Shin et al, 2005;Rafiei et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2018;Zoričák et al, 2020;Dube et al, 2023), firms operating in tourism industry (Youn and Gu, 2010;Bogdan, 2021;Castillo García and Fernández Miguélez, 2021), banks (Iturriaga and Sanz, 2015;Mishraz et al, 2021), heat supply firms (Horváthová et al, 2021), industrial firms (Callejón et al, 2013), firms from engineering and automotive industries (Gavurova et al, 2022), or not specified small or medium-sized companies (Yoon and Kwon, 2010;Ptak-Chmielewska, 2019;Calabrese, 2023). This paper contributes to the existing literature by constructing a bankruptcy prediction model for the engineering industry.…”