CoDa-thesis wins the XXII edition of the ACCID!!

07/05/2025

Compositional doctoral thesis wins the XXII edition of the ACCID (Catalan association for accounting and management) prize to the best dissertation.

The award-winning doctoral thesis of Elisabet Saus Sala (University of Girona), supervised by M. Àngels Farreras Noguer, Núria Arimany Serrat and Germà Coenders is entitled “Financial statement analysis with compositional data: The rural tourism industry in Spain before and after COVID-19”. The thesis shows the advantages of the managerial information provided by compositional visualization and classification tools over the problematic current methods of analysing financial ratios.