Specification of financial knowledge – the case of an intelligent dashboard for managers

The article presents the approach to the definition the financial knowledge used for an Intelligent Dashboard for Managers. The content of the knowledge is focused on essential concepts related to the management of micro, small and medium enterprises. Knowledgebased functions, not previously available in commercial systems, increase the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of the decision-making process. The Intelligent Dashboard for Managers contains six ontologies describing areas of Cash Flow at Risk, Comprehensive Risk Measurement, Early Warning Models, Credit Scoring, Financial Market, and General Financial Knowledge. In the article we presented the process, used in the InKoM project, of creating ontology, particularly the stage of encoding ontology in a formal way in Ontopia. This description was illustrated with the example of creating ontology of Credit Scoring.