Financial Flexibility and the Impact of the Sustainable Growth Rate in Enhancing it: An Applied Study of a Sample of Companies Listed in the Iraqi Stock Exchange
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Financial Flexibility, Sustainable Growth Rate, Companies Listed on the Iraqi Stock Exchange, An Applied StudyAbstract
The study seeks to realize the impact of the sustainable growth rate on the financial flexibility, based on the hypothesis that there is an effect of the sustainable growth rate on the financial flexibility, using the data for the sample consisting of (10) industrial joint stock companies listed in the Iraq Stock Exchange, covering a period of eight years from (2011to 2018), and a number of the statistical methods and methods were used to analyze the study variables and test hypotheses such as the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, hypothesis significance test and (t test). The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is the presence of a positive impact of the sustainable growth rate on financial flexibility in its three dimensions (maintaining cash assets, net cash flow and debt sustainability).
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