Abstract:
The Savings Co-operatives are comparablewith the small banks which help their members infinancial aspect. If there are any problems happenwith them, it can affect to many people and thenational economy. Therefore, this research aims tostudy the financial performance of the Savings Cooperativesby classifying them into profit groupand loss group. This can benefit in the way of priornotificating their operation. In this analysis, 3methods of statistic tools were used to classifygroups. There are discriminant analysis by FihsersLinear discriminant function (FLDF), discriminantanalysis by quadratic discriminant function (QDF)and linear programming by Lam, Choo and Moymodel (LCM) and Linear programming medianmodel (LPMED). The set of data under this studywere 13 financial ratios since 2006-2008 based onthe CAMEL analysis. The sample consists of 186Thai savings co-operatives, of these, 169 havegained profit 3 years continually and 17 havesuffered loss 3 years continually. The study resultsreveal that the best method for classifying groupsof savings co-operatives is discriminant analysis byQDF model. It can 100 percent accurately classify thegroups by using 5 financial ratios which are 1) theoperating expense to profit before the deduction ofthe operating expense ratio, 2) the other reservedfund growth rate, 3) the savings co-operatives fundgrowth rate, 4) the reserved fund to assets ratio and5) total asset turnover. For the other methods suchas discriminant analysis by FLDF model and linearprogramming by LPMED and LCM can classifyabout 97.31 percent correctly, 96.77 percent, 96.24 percent asfollow."