One of the most popular ways to measure financial distress and bankruptcy risk this time is E. Altman method, which is popular and in Lithuania. In this model are five main financial coefficients which help to calculate the probability of financial distress and bankruptcy risk.

In the other hand, macroeconomic indicators also influence the number of enterprises with financial distress. It is very important especial in economic recession times. But there is no research of this topic in Lithuania.

So in this paper the main point is to calculate correlations between number of enterprises with financial distress and macroeconomic indicators. To achieve this point, first of all I analyze valuations of companies’ financial distress and bankruptcy risk, its methods. Further on, I review bankruptcy legislation, enterprises bankruptcy situation and macroeconomic indicators variation in Lithuania. Finally I calculate correlations between numbers of enterprises with financial distress and macroeconomic indicators and sectors financial coefficients.

The results of this paper suggest that macroeconomic indicators have impact to number of enterprises with financial distress. The results also show that individual’s sectors financial coefficients display enterprises financial distress.

Raktažodžiai: companies financial distress, bankruptcy, macroeconomic factors