Selection of Key Performance Indicators of Chosen Industry and their Application in Formation of Creditworthy Model

This paper is devoted to the issue of business performance. It is dedicated to more detailed elaboration of performance, key performance indicators, measurement and evaluation of the performance of selected industry applying Creditworthy model as well as risk factors influencing performance of businesses from given industry. Nowadays modern performance indicators are adopted as well as mathematical and statistical methods are applied in assessing business performance. In this paper this problem is solved by the application of correlation matrix constructed for a chosen indicators‘group in order to select key performance indicators. Subject for objective fulfilment was a group of businesses operating in the same Slovak industry. The most difficult point of solution was the selection of appropriate inputs for the construction of correlation matrix as well as the collecting of sufficient amount of relevant data to ensure analytically-based outputs. Benefit of this paper is formation of Creditworthy model with the application of key performance indicators and risk factors of businesses from selected industry. Creditworthy model designed in such a way allows to influence and measure the performance of given industry in terms of key performance indicators and to eliminate specific risks of businesses from given industry.