THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS ON THE PROFITABILITY ASSESSMENT (APPLIED STUDY OF KIRKUK COMPANY FOR PRODUCING CONSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS)

Abstract

The present study entitled “financial statement analysis and assessing the profitability of the Kirkuk’s Company for producing constructional materials”. The main goal of the accounting department in the firms is to prepare the reliable financial statements in order to make their valid balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statement. This paper determines the confirming effects of the financial statement analysis to assess the profitability of the Kirkuk Company. The data in this study is based on the secondary data and it collected from the past and present performance of Kirkuk’s Company for producing constructional materials. To achieve the research goal, four categories of the financial ratios were utilized for testing the study’s hypothesis. This group of ratios was applied to assess the financial situation of the company in the years between “2005 to 2011” by using different techniques of financial statement analysis. The results clearly show that, there are insignificant relationships between profitability with asset regulated and assets utilization. At the same times, there is a weak relationship between profitability and liquidity.