摘要：In the literature, many multiple criteria decision making methods have been proposed. There arealso a number of papers, which are devoted to comparison of their characteristics and performances.However, a definitive answer to questions: which method is most suitable and which method is mosteffective is still actual. Therefore, in this paper, the use of some prominent multiple criteria decisionmaking methods is considered on the example of ranking Serbian banks. The objective of this paperis not to determine which method is most appropriate for ranking banks. The objective of this paperis to emphasize that the use of various multiple criteria decision making methods sometimes canproduce different ranking orders of alternatives, highlighted some reasons which lead to differentresults, and indicate that different results obtained by different MCDM methods are not just a randomevent, but rather reality
