Nowadays, businesses face many challenges. Changes in the economy are not one-off; change of state of the company from going bankrupt to financially healthy and vice versa is a gradual process. This process is dynamic and influenced by many macroeconomic and microeconomic factors. Therefore, the knowledge of the overall process of changing in the financial situation has a crucial influence on corporate decision-making. The paper focuses on the description of different forms of financial distress as well as the analysis and description of corporate failure as an integral, continuous process in three dimensions.