Over the past few decades, the number of universities has grown exponentially, but many of them are financially constrained. In the meantime, financial performance appraisal can support university administrators in making appropriate decisions by recognizing financial s
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Over the past few decades, the number of universities has grown exponentially, but many of them are financially constrained. In the meantime, financial performance appraisal can support university administrators in making appropriate decisions by recognizing financial status. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to codify a model for evaluating the financial performance of the university. This research has been applied in terms of the purpose, applied-developmental research and descriptive research in terms of the method which has been done intermittently. The statistical population of this research was all units of Islamic Azad University throughout the country. The statistical sample size was selected based on Morgan's table of 214 units of IAU. To collect data from the questionnaire, the Delphi method and the existing university documents were used. In order to analyze the research data, from Delphi methods and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system combined with genetic algorithm and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system combined with a particle swarm optimization have been used. The research results show that among the designed systems, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system combined with a particle swarm optimization with the least error is able to evaluate and predict the financial performance of the university.
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