Faculty of Administration and Economics / University of Kerbala has discussed the doctoral dissertation which is entitled “The impact of the determinants of the financial structure on market value an analytical study of a sample of industrial companies listed in the Iraq stock exchange”.
It has been presented by Haider Khudair Joan. It aims at testing the impact and contribution of the determinants of the financing structure represented by (company size, age, tangibility of assets, profitability, liquidity, growth opportunities and tax exemption) in the market value.
The problem of the study lies in the idea that continuous decline in the values of the companies shown in the published financial reports and the difficulties facing Iraqi companies in exploiting the determinants of the financing structure to increase the market value.
The study uses a set of financial methods to extract the value of the company size and life through the natural logarithm of total assets and the age of the company.
The results show that five companies, which constitute half of the study sample, have a number of financing structure determinants that have a significant effect on the market value.
