“…It is adaptive, has good learning capability and has tolerated errors. Many scholars used this method to construct an early-warning model in financial distress, for example Altman et al [1], Coats and Fant [12], Huang [25], Nien [44], Odom and Sharda [45], Ohlson [46], Pan [47], Ravisankar and Ravi [50], Tai [57], Tam and Kiang [58], Theodossiou [59], Wu [62], and Yang et al [63].…”