Credit demand evaluation and financial analysis of the SMEs operating in trade sector: Case study

Nowadays, risk management oriented policies of banks shows that the most important level of credit process is financial analysis and intelligence (information). Financial analysis and inteligence (information) is the study, that determinates the (credit) reguesting company is credible or not, by analysing qualitative and quantitative all datas about that company. This study is focused on Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) that are important part of Turkey's real sector.Financing problems comes at the beginning of SMEs problems. Solving the financial problems, especially our country SME uses bank credits for financial problems initially, instead of other foreign sources. Therefore, two trade companies that fits SME segment is selected and analysed quantitative datas to set light to credit decision. In the case study part, financial analysis and inteligence (information)study based on companies' balance sheet and income statement. Keywords: SME, Financial Analysis and Intelligence, Credibility