The Effect Of The Actual Growth Rate In Enhancing Financial Flexibility
: An Applied Study Of A Sample Of Companies Listed On The Iraq Stock
Exchange
Assist. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kazem Hassan1 Researcher. Zahraa Thaer Shaker2
1- (Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management and Economics/University of Qadisiyah, Iraq,)
2-(Master’s student Department of Business Administration \ University of Al-Qadisiyah)
Corresponding Author: Assistant Prof. Dr. Abdullah Kazem Hassan Emai : Abdallakadim1977@gmail.com
Corresponding Author: Zahraa Thaer Shaker Email: zahraa.thaer44@gmail.com
Abstract : This research seeks to know the effect of the actual growth rate on financial flexibility, based on the
assumption that there is an effect of the actual growth rate on financial flexibility .The research population is
represented in the number of industrial companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange 88 Company . This is done
using the data for the sample consisting of) 10 (Of the industrial companies listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange. The
current research covered an eight-year period of) 2011 – 2018 , ( And used a number of methods and statistical
methods to analyze the research variables and test hypotheses , such as the arithmetic mean and the standard
deviation was also adopted in the analysis statistics , including moral test hypotheses and ) t test .( After analyzing
the data and hypotheses of the research, a number of conclusions were reached, the most prominent of which is the
positive effect of the actual growth rate on financial flexibility in its three dimensions (debt capacity, preservation of
cash assets and net cash flow , (and based on these conclusions there are a set of recommendations, the most
important of which is the adoption of tools and a variety of different analysis to measure the actual growth rate of
companies and take into account the financial flexibility and achieve high levels of it to deal with negative shocks
and investment opportunities for the future.
Keywords: Actual growth rate , Financial flexibility
