The Use of Financial Analysis in Predicting the Failure of the Joint-Stock Industrial Companies - An Applied Study on a Sample of Iraqi Industrial Companies

Abstract

The failure of companies is one of the most important topics that prompted many writers and researchers to study them, due to the negative effects it may have on the national economy and on society as a whole. There are many methods of financial analysis in predicting failure, including the Altman model. As Altman's equation was applied to the data obtained from the list of financial position and profit disclosure for the study sample companies and listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange, and the results of the analysis for the years of study appeared varying for the general period from 2012 to 2017, as well as the recurrence of failure of some companies during the years of study where the value was (Z) is low ((for the year 2013 the value of Z (1.43) for the Iraqi Carpet and Furniture Company)), ((and for the year 2014 the value of Z (0.25), (-175.61), (1.70), (1.47), (1.62), for the company Al-Kindi for the production of vaccines and patient medicines, the National Company for Chemical and Plastic Industries, the Iraqi Company for the manufacture and marketing of dates, Baghdad for the manufacture of packaging materials, and the Iraqi carpets and furnishings, respectively)).