The research proposal “MODEL TO DETERMINE THE FINANCIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN THE TEXTILES SUBSECTOR IN RISARALDA – A CASE OF STUDY”, which seeks to determine the characteristics of management from the companies dedicated to the textile sector with a financial approach. The disappearance or detriment of these companies in Risaralda and Colombia in general, highlights the need to study the characteristics of such businesses to learn about the difficulties or the elements that have led the companies to not growing over a period of time , or even more, not to remain and finish closing. Besides knowing the key elements in the management of the textiles companies, there is proposes, a procedure of companies’ management to guide and facilitate them to go on the right direction towards their target, this is not only to such companies but to any other institution in general. Among the factors to consider in the characterization is: the company structure, the management style, the methods of decision making, the strategy to follow, the plan of action, the analysis of competitiveness and the actions designed towards the benchmarking to ensure the stability and success of these companies. To develop the proposed procedure, which will be expose throughout the document, we are going to take a company from Risaralda as a case study with the following steps: Analyze the vision and mission of the organization, conduct a strategy analysis, measure the level of competitiveness, implement a data envelopment analysis (DEA), to establish the benchmarking conducted for the company and propose a plan of action. Finally, we come to some conclusions and recommendations of the research developed.