Case Study from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 2,0, International School of Management Dortmund , course: Financial Planning and Rating, language: English, abstract: The case study is mainly divided into two parts: The first part is conducting a country rating based on the scheme of the rating company Moody's. It uses financial data to evaluate the creditworthiness of the state Bulgaria. The second part is analyzing the specific circumstances of the copper industry and describe relevant influencing factors. These are used to forecast, based on statistical modeling, the future development of the Bulgarian copper industry.