[paulvs]

For a corporate credit analyst working at a bank, what are some good introduction material for getting into forecasting using tools like these?

I see this being applicable to analysts when deciding on on a company's credit worthiness.

[zebrafish]

There are some models out there which could be used but i'm not sure that forecasting is actually what you would use.

I would think if you're already assigning credit ratings, you can set that as your dependent variable and use things like company revenue, number of employees, age of company, etc. as your independent variables. You can use a number of different models to assess credit worthiness based on this data. Evaluate several to determine the most accurate.